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AAPS News January 2024 – Axioms

Volume 80, no. 1 

Philosophy, culture, and forms of governance, like mathematics, are based on “self-evident truths” or axioms. If the axioms are changed, so is everything that follows. Consider a current example: performances of The Nutcracker.

Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet, still the source of 40% of professional dance companies’ revenue, has been performed annually for and by children for generations—and recently by 1,500 drones (tinyurl.com/m4nr9k84). It is full of joy, magic—and innocence. Snippets of its tuneful melodies are heard everywhere. This year, Jill Biden brought a transformed version  to the White House.

In the 2010s, The Nutcracker was called “racist,” and its Chinese and Arabian sequences “cultural misappropriation” and even “demeaning” (tinyurl.com/2mpw32tz). Some say that “the whole ballet tradition is inherently racist” (tinyurl.com/y5eya4pz).

The White House jazz version was an avant-garde tap dance performance by the Dorrance Dancers, whose website says that tap is a “subversive” dance form that is “rooted in protest and transcendence” (tinyurl.com/2fw8rzp8). The site answers questions about “white privilege, systemic racism, white fragility, and anti-racism” (tinyurl.com/taacmsbm). A “tap dancer is to be an ambassador to the world for the unsung history of a Black art form” (https://tinyurl.com/4pdne473).

An observer raised in the 1950s might see a lewd, sexualized performance that invites speculation on the gender identification and orientation of the dancers. And she might view dance as art that can be created, performed, or enjoyed by humans of any race.

The settings of the two Nutcrackers are radically different. When the ballet debuted in 1892, Russia and the rest of Europe were experiencing unprecedented prosperity. The opening scenes are in a comfortable middle-class home, where several generations and many children are celebrating Christmas with abundant gifts. Passports had not been invented, and the world enjoyed cross-cultural exchanges. The audience could not have imagined the horrors of the Great War and the economic and societal wreckage that followed it, writes Jeffrey Tucker (tinyurl.com/ywh9jxne).

The institutional features of the world of the ballet were faith, property, family, security. But after the Bolshevik Revolution, the Party ruled under the pretext of ideological communism, which consisted of opposition to faith, property, family, and the very bourgeois life that is celebrated in The Nutcracker.

The Biden White House is in the vanguard of a movement that thinks American foundational principles are evil and need to be subverted—and forgotten. Including faith. Many deny that America was a Christian nation at any point. Although some of the Founders were deists or atheists, the culture was Christian, and the law was derived from Judeo-Christian principles and morality. Nativity scenes until recently were everywhere, representing the historic event that marked year 1 of the Common Era, until recently designated A.D. But no one was required to be a believer.

There is still a small creche in the East Room of the White House, but this remnant is well within the “endorsement” or “reindeer” rule formulated by the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. A display on public property can include the Christmas story without violating the “Establishment Clause” as long as it has enough secular symbols such as Rudolph or Santa Claus or Frosty the Snowman to balance it (https://tinyurl.com/mw6csm9x).

Portraying a family or home typical in 1892 could be “exclusionary.” Two married parents may soon be in the minority. A spacious home is becoming the impossible dream in America—a rented apartment in the pod or a “tiny home” (300 sq ft) may become the norm. No room for a Christmas tree, a big family dinner, or dancing. No space for books, tools, or extra supplies.

What Are American Axioms?

The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of God or a universal lawgiver. While it is intended to protect religious freedom, it is more often being used today to suppress religious and other nonapproved speech. The problematic Declaration of Independence refers to the Creator and Nature’s God as the source of rights—and is a call for insurrection against tyranny.

But what is self-evident? That “all men are created equal” is manifestly untrue. All are unique individuals differing widely in strength, talent, and virtue. Jefferson evidently meant equal under the law. America was not to have an aristocracy or a caste system, and this principle required the abolition of slavery.

But what about the “unalienable” rights to life, liberty, and “pursuit of happiness”? What exactly does the last mean? Was it substituted for “property,” which is protected by the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, because some considered slaves to be property? What is the meaning of a right to life and liberty if people have no right to own and use property to sustain their life, but must be dependent on a lord or government for sustenance?

Today, equality is taken to mean Equity (see p 2)—defined and enforced by authorities, who eventually acquire totalitarian powers. Is this inherent in the Lockean philosophy that our Founders embraced? And is it a flaw that can be mended?

The Nutcracker was a gift that got broken, but was repaired and transformed into a prince. The ballet was written in a “time of clarity when…even statesmen saw what was right and true,” writes Tucker. That world is shattered today beyond recognition. But we need not repeat the errors and horrors of the past. Can we put   America’s wonderful gift back together again?


Aberration or Consequence?

Today’s Marxist Wokeism might be an invasion of an alien philosophy. But why has America been so susceptible? And could our own assumptions lead to that result—and to fascist tyranny?

In The Apprentice’s Sorcerer, Ishay Landa makes a complex  argument that fascism flows from contradictions built into the liberal tradition.

Statistician William Briggs calls the Enlightenment “the Great Corruption.” Its first axiom, secularism, is “the belief that man is the measure of, and ultimate end of, all things. From secularism, nihilism necessarily follows, and from nihilism comes anarchy, and from anarchy arises tyranny, both large and small, and who today would not say we suffer from multiple tyrannies, and that worse are to come?” From the second axiom, egalitarianism, follows community of property—communism. “Equality is the most insidious belief.” Since Equity is impossible, it must be coerced.

“The age of chivalry is gone,” he notes. “That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever” (https://tinyurl.com/39rc4e6r).

“Abstract speculative reason, mindlessly generating ‘natural rights,’…is arbitrary and ends inevitably in tyranny,” writes Winston McCuen. Political action needs to be rooted in custom and tradition, he states. Government is not established to secure  abstract rights, but “ordained…by God…to protect society from internal and external enemies” (https://tinyurl.com/mr2zxehb).

The tradition of “democratism,” traced back to the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which influenced Thomas Jefferson, serves as a compulsory ersatz religion, which makes an idol out of temporal power (https://tinyurl.com/7r5bwazz).


‘Equity’ Updates

Mea culpas from NEJM. The journal confesses to having been a prominent forum for discussing the superiority of Whites, and called the doctrine of equality “an anatomical, physiological and scriptural impossibility.” It actually argued that slavery had protected Blacks from insanity, tuberculosis, and the moral hazards of freedom and responsibility. “The 2020 murder of George Floyd galvanized physicians to take the legacies of slavery more seriously”—and alleviate entrenched inequities in health, perhaps with reparations (tinyurl.com/23evwhbj).

‘Antiracist’ Documentation. How and where the patient’s race is recorded in the chart may shape clinical encounters and decision making (NEJM 9/28/23).

Gender Categories. In evaluating diversity and equity in Mohs surgery fellows and program directors, further improvements could include “additional gender categories and intersectional identities” (JAMA Dermatol, September 2023).

Race Quotas. Tennessee’s use of quotas for government boards, which deny equality and opportunity, are being challenged by Do No Harm (https://tinyurl.com/fv8xe9px).


“Millions of citizens have lined up, from the French Revolution to this day, to pursue universal happiness at the expense of individual freedom; the worship of supreme authority instead of the ethics of personal courage; class hatred instead of neighborly love; the myth of historical progress instead of the traditional wisdom grounded in what really works.”

Mihail  Neamtu, https://tinyurl.com/y4vy8u3a


‘Witness’ Testimony, 70 Years Later

In his 1952 book Witness, Whitaker Chambers wrote that he  knew with certainty that he “was no longer a Communist” when he came to believe that it was just as wrong to cold-bloodedly kill the Tsar and the royal family and to “throw their bodies down a mineshaft as it is to starve two million peasants or slave laborers to death.”  It took longer to articulate the ground of his break— “rooted in a reaffirmation of the goodness of God against false claims made on behalf of mind or reason beholden to nothing beyond itself, and idolatrous appeals to history or progress as the only tribunal of human judgment.” He came to see the “the falsehood of reductive and materialist accounts of both the human being and the world,” and freedom as a profound “need of the soul.” He concluded that “external freedom”—political liberty—was unsustainable without a recognition of the soul’s “interior freedom” (https://tinyurl.com/3a2n988d).

COVID Vaccine Adverse Effects

Studies. Dr. Robert Malone has entered about 750 published peer-reviewed studies of adverse events in the congressional record (https://tinyurl.com/yck79j4h); there are more than 6,000 studies on overcoming vaccine hesitancy. The privately funded React-19 group has more than 36,000 vaccine-injured members. The Yale-funded LISTEN study demonstrates “an urgent need for expeditious investigation.”

EMS Calls. Data obtained through Freedom of Information Law by Dr. Pierre Kory reveal that the Department of Emergency Services in Westchester, NY, received a shocking number of vaccine emergency calls as well as requests for ambulances to be “on standby” during vaccination clinics. In 2021, for an area with 800,000 people, 165 EMS calls specifically mentioned the vaccine as a cause of distress (tinyurl.com/bddk3wcz).

Excess Deaths. In September, CDC stopped updating its tracking of excess deaths on its website, without explanation. FDA chief Robert Califf called the drop in U.S. life expectancy “catastrophic”—a headline in The Hill called it “bigger than COVID”—but has no clue about why. Maybe smoking, junk food, or driving gasoline-fueled cars (tinyurl.com/yf5k6hsc).


COVID-19 Community Corps

More than 17,000 organizations and individuals have signed up with the Corps and commit to encouraging COVID-19 vaccination. The list includes public health and medical organizations, leaders in ethnic communities, and business, labor, and faith leaders (https://tinyurl.com/4ttujkfr).


AAPS Calendar

Jan 20, 2024. Board of Directors meeting (virtual).

Sep 18-21, 2024. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. – https://aapsonline.org/2024am


ACTION OF THE MONTH

Scholarships are available to help medical students and residents attend the AAPS 81st Annual Meeting, Sept 18-21, 2024, in San Antonio. Details at https://aapsonline.org/2024am.


Jacobin Justice

The left-wing Jacobins were the most powerful political faction to emerge during the French Revolution. Their power derived from their ability to manage the Parisian mobs. To satisfy the mob’s bloodlust, the Jacobins imposed a state of revolutionary justice untethered to any traditional sense of Judeo-Christian morality. In the resulting Reign of Terror, more than 10,000 people  were tried and executed. 

Jacobins in the U.S. media, in cases from Sacco and Vanzetti to the Central Park Five, mustered evidence that seemed to exonerate the accused and suppressed the evidence that convicted them. But by 2012, the Jacobins were finding common ground with Robespierre.  Instead of resisting the mob, they sided with it, managed it, encouraged it. “Instead of defending the transparently guilty, they felt free to condemn the transparently innocent,” writes Jack Cashill. “Oddly, almost no one noticed what may have been the darkest turn in judicial history.”

Among other cases, Cashill considers the death of George Floyd. Under threat, the Hennepin County medical examiner, Dr. Andrew Baker,  added “neck compression” to his assessment, and
“four innocent police officers went to prison.”

“In this last decade, Jacobin justice has been unleashed on everyone from school board protesters to local police to a former president of the U.S. Much of it flows directly from the DOJ, but state and local prosecutors have been keen to launch witch hunts of their own.  In doing so, they have corrupted evidence, rigged juries, allowed fear to dictate outcomes, and abandoned all traditional notions of equality before the law” (tinyurl.com/2xnpt59k).

See TheFallofMinneapolis.com concerning the Floyd trial.


Government Demands Metadata

The warrant demand from Special Counsel Jack Smith to Twitter for information on Donald Trump’s account includes “all information from the ‘Connect’ or ‘Notifications’ tab for the account, including all lists of Twitter users who have favorited or retweeted tweets posted by the account, as well as all tweets that include the username associated with the account (i.e., ‘mentions’ or ‘replies’)” and “all associated logs and metadata.” This includes billions of data points on millions of Americans, their locations and IP addresses, turning Trump into the center of a surveillance virus. Enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to comb through the data to protect the internet from “disinformation” under the auspices of national security (tinyurl.com/4nt5rhsc).

Tip of the Month: On Dec 11, the U.S. Supreme Court dodged the issue of the free-speech right of psychiatrists and other licensed professionals to counsel teenagers in favor of affirming their biological sex. The Ninth Circuit, the vast federal appellate court presiding over the most western states, ruled against the rights of a faith-based counselor in the State of Washington. The Eleventh Circuit, presiding over the southeastern states, has ruled in favor of the free-speech rights of counselors and against cities’ attempts to ban therapies that affirm traditional gender or sexual orientation. Justices Thomas and Alito dissented from this denial of cert., as both deplored this infringement on free-speech rights by the Ninth Circuit in Tingley v. Ferguson. D.C. and 20 States have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting “conversion therapy.”


Winning the War

There’s a war on medical freedom, and on Western civilization, and much is centered on COVID-19 and the response.

There is a deep partisan divide, and polarization has progressively intensified. A tremendous power asymmetry strongly favors the Left (https://tinyurl.com/4h94dpbe).

Truth is the most important weapon and the greatest threat to any tyranny.  However, the way to discovering the truth is typically long and difficult, filled with errors, false hopes, and disappointments (https://tinyurl.com/3af6xf3t). And the Medical Freedom Movement is itself fractured.

As Nietzsche pointed out, “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

Left-wing tyranny is delusional, prevaricating, arrogant, insolent, illogical, demonizing, and cruel. Its opponents must not morph into a mirror image.

What about “Nuremberg 2.0”—on which many seem to be pinning their hope? This assumes that we have a fair and just authority that will set things right—we don’t. It also omits any details about Nuremberg 1.0. This was a tribunal of victors in a war, accusing enemies who had been utterly crushed and had surrendered unconditionally. Defendants argued that their actions had been legal under the regime they served. What was the higher authority? God’s law? Consensus? The Soviets were aggressive atheists, and guilty of at least as many atrocities—for which they have never been held accountable. Who will judge now, or carry out the desired sentence to “hang them high”?

What about rules of evidence? Lists are being widely circulated, including names of private citizens who were performing highly sophisticated academic research—inaccurately (deceitfully?) described. Their laboratories, homes, and families have been threatened and attacked—Leftist tactics.

Exciting news is a great fund-raising device—but discredited reports, and often the funds, disappear.

While complex political conspiracies are a reality, they are difficult to study in detail. Right-wing “detailed” conspiracies based on guesses, delusions, or lies are only detrimental.

A winning strategy, states AAPS executive director Jane Orient, M.D., must be based on meticulous attention to facts.


Can WHO Override Our Constitutional Rights?

Is the U.S. on the verge of ceding its sovereignty to the World Health Organization through the International Health Regulations (IHR)? Many have expressed that fear.

“These claims absolutely deserve close scrutiny,” writes AAPS business manager Jeremy Snavely. “However, a closer look reveals that the current threat from the WHO is not as severe as is being stated, and is certainly less that the attack on the rights of Americans being perpetrated by our own U.S. states and federal government.” The proposed WHO treaty will not “give the WHO authority over U.S. domestic pandemic policies.” Instead, it is focused on forcing countries’ “equitable” redistribution of  knowledge, technology, and other resources—harmful DEI policies (“socialistic policies”) that AAPS warned about in 1955 (https://tinyurl.com/4ae9kte4). AAPS opposes the WHO agreement (https://tinyurl.com/yve27bak).


Correspondence

Challenge to Censorship. In the AAPS reply brief in the case against specialty boards and the Biden Administration for censorship (https://tinyurl.com/2s4fn4sh), I particularly liked the State Action argument. Government agencies and advisory committees have developed particular expertise in ways to hide the truth. The level of deviousness in this case, as in sham peer review, never ceases to amaze me. As the brief states, “It is well settled that a defendant’s voluntary cessation of a challenged practice does not deprive a federal court of its power to determine the legality of the practice…. A defendant, without court compulsion, could legally return to its former ways.” 

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Sex Offenses in Schools. In 2023, there were 57 arrests statewide with a sexual component involving a school employee, mostly public school system employees, and a student or minor. Those arrested will include significant numbers of women. Whereas women could once be relied upon to apply the brakes before such interactions could take place, they now pursue such activities. In both sexes, the restraint based on a Christian-informed worldview, well-formed conscience, and a defined understanding of right vs. wrong is lacking.

Joseph Guarino, M.D., Reidsville, NC


Enantiodromia. Carl Gustav Jung coined this word for “the transformation of the hitherto valued into the worthless, and of the formerly good into the bad,” a concept taken from Heraclitus. This is the grand unifying theory for the controlled demolition of the Western world. In the Oppositeland of 2023, the season of good will to all men required counterterrorism police to safeguard carols and Nativity scenes.

Mark Steyn, https://tinyurl.com/59rkrh57


Data on COVID Vaccine Outcomes.  I have been trying to go through the AMA to make sure that they will not sue me for publishing or analyzing my data stored in my EMR since AMA owns the CPT codes and I was forced to sign a click contract almost one year ago forbidding me from sharing my data. I have yet to receive confirmation that I can legally share life-saving information, but I hope that waiver will be forthcoming soon. 

I also asked whether NCHS might add a codes for “adverse reaction to COVID-19 vaccination,” or “fully vaccinated for COVID-19,” since incredibly, (two years out) no codes exist. This prevents accurate tracking of what we know is occurring. 

Sheri Weinstein, M.D., Sarasota, FL


Life under Communism. Elena Ceausescu, the wife of the Romanian dictator Nicolae, allegedly told a high-ranking government employee who displeased her, “The house you enjoy with your precious wife is not yours. It belongs to the Party. So does your car, and everything else you have.” The Ceausescus were proud of installing a security agent for every 15 citizens.

The nonviolent neo-Marxist revolution is now being achieved step by step, decree by decree, law by law, with international treaties that do not benefit the involved countries,  endless executive orders, and other means.

In 2009, then U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a red industrial button with the word “reset” on it. The translation into Russian was incorrect; instead of “reset,” it meant “overload.”

Ileana Johnson Paugh, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/bddc6fsr


‘Decolonization.’ An entire issue of the British Medical Journal was devoted to “decolonizing health and medicine” (http://tinyurl.com/5ecm9kuh). Which beliefs they want to purge (logic, rationality, and old-school science) have been obvious since the misnamed Enlightenment began. But which beliefs do they want to impose in their place? “The decolonisation movement demands that we examine class, race, gender, and geographical inequities in health and medical institutions and knowledge production, and calls for radical social change.” There’s that rotten fruit of egalitarianism in all its blackened splendor.  

William Briggs, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/yme343zn


Snipe Hunts. This practical joke dating back to the 1840s sends young persons on a hunt for a mythical lizard as a form of hazing.  Participation is necessary to fit into the group culture. As an adult I was terribly disappointed to learn that huge swaths of the social sciences and of the economy are multibillion dollar snipe hunts…that maim and kill people. Why a culture built around artificiality? Why pursue escapism through drugs and alcohol, temporary adrenaline hits, and fakes? I think it’s because most of us do not know why we are here. With the breakdown of the old social order (family, community, connection to the earth, and humility and reverence for the divine) we are left naked and alone on this rock hurtling through space. The fake, the simulated, and the ridiculous become welcome distractions from existential doubts.  Participating in ridiculousness reveals that one is part of the club, bonded together through shared ritual. We feel safer in the group, even if that group is participating in fascism. The revolution we seek is about a turn away from the artificial and to building a culture that cherishes the good and the beautiful.

Toby Rogers, https://tinyurl.com/2r6vrbvt   


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AAPS News December 2023 – Burnout

Volume 79, no. 12

 According to the American Medical Association, nearly 63% of physicians reported symptoms of burnout at the end of 2021,  up from the already high 38% in 2020, when the COVID pandemic raged (https://tinyurl.com/5skhvxzk). More than one in ten of the 13,000 physicians surveyed by MedScape considered or attempted suicide in 2021, and young, beloved residents who seemingly were doing well completed it (tinyurl.com/4mz2arke).

AMA proposes to add “improving the clinician experience” to the Institute for Health Improvement’s Triple Aim, making it a Quadruple Aim (https://tinyurl.com/bdhjbmra). Limiting work hours and improving “work-life balance” has obviously not cured burnout. Better access to mental health services (and removing the stigma), and reducing administrative burdens are proposed—without naming the burdens that AMA has advocated, such as electronic health records, “value-based” payments and the huge documentation burden, and constant recertification.

Nor does AMA recognize the moral injury inflicted by the medical regulatory-therapeutic complex (https://tinyurl.com/yks3ukt3), or the toxic medical workplace, which coerces or pressures physicians to act in a manner contrary to their beliefs about what is best for individual patients (tinyurl.com/mzt76rp9). This is constantly present in systems devoted to the bottom line, and crescendoed during COVID to collect government incentives (https://tinyurl.com/3zt3bu3f) or to enforce official mandates for lockdowns or vaccines. AMA hardly recognizes the threat of professional death from unjust prosecution, delicensure, or sham peer review chronicled in our Journal (https://jpands.org).

Once again, efforts to change AMA’s opposition to assisted suicide failed in the House of Delegates—but will probably return until it passes. In nations further down the vortex than the U.S., Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) may be authorized for patients with psychiatric illnesses (https://tinyurl.com/32spr5c9).

Missing from the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

Formal SDOH assessment tools, which physicians may be required to complete on patients, are being developed, and Healthy People 2030 sets “data-driven national objectives” (tinyurl.com/4x6pu89p). Medical students and physicians should all score well on these, as their physical and economic circumstances are generally acceptable. So, why the burnout?

Are there determinants of health, applying to both patients and their doctors, in the nonmaterial realm? Are there areas that a Chief Wellness Officer or “safe spaces” or “cognitive restructuring” or “somatic therapy exercises” (tinyurl.com/ym338kmu) can’t address? Human features that can’t be digitized or coded?

Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) writes about the young American student who says: “I am a 22-year old with degree, car, security, and the availability of more sex and power than I need. Now I have only to explain to myself what it all means.” Dr. Frankl calls this condition an “existential vacuum.” In the 2000 edition of Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning (updated from the 1975 The Unconscious God, translated from the 1948 Der Unbewusste Gott), he says that 60% of his American students had had an “abyss experience.”

American students are indoctrinated with concepts such as: “man is a naked ape”; life is “nothing but a combustion process, an oxidation process”; man is “an adaptive control system”; values are “homeostatic restraints in a stimulus-response process, ” or “nothing but reaction formation and defense mechanisms.”

Frankl spent some time in Nazi concentration camps, and states that survival was much more likely in those who believed life had meaning—often, but not always, based on religious beliefs.  There is meaning up until the last moment, and even in suffering, he writes. To today’s grievance culture, he says: “I do not forget any good deed done to me, and I do not carry a grudge for a bad one” (https://tinyurl.com/yhbh9p2f).

Dr. Frankl founded the “logotherapy” school of psychiatry, which focuses on helping patients find meaning.

In his 1983 book, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy writes: “…the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.” He wonders: “Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor?”

Schoolchildren are being pushed to look inside themselves to figure out which “gender” they identify as. Yet, as Dr. Frankl writes, “the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system.” The goal of “self-actualization” is achievable only through “self-transcendence.”

The “data-driven objectives” have no place for the need to love, “the ultimate and highest goal” states Dr. Frankl; the meaning of life; faith; family; duties and responsibilities; appreciation of art, music, or the Crab Nebula; playfulness or humor.

Without these, one is burned out and lost in the cosmos.


Overturning Tyranny

Writing in 1978 from Communist Czechoslovakia, in his book The Power of the Powerless, dissident playwright Václav Havel, describes the predicament of a “post-totalitarian” society. By “living within a lie,” he wrote, “individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.” He asks us to consider what it would mean if a greengrocer one day refused to put up the customary sign “Workers of the World Unite!”  

“This act of defiance would surely put at risk the greengrocer’s reputation, if not his job, his livelihood, his own and his family’s well-being, or worse,” writes Michael Robillard (Chronicles, October 2023, https://tinyurl.com/3a7w8mfs). “But this act would nonetheless constitute a reclaiming of personal dignity and a kind of spiritual protest.” Further, it would “start to dissolve the metaphysical ‘glue’…—the consent of the public through fear and intimidation. It would inspire others to disobey as well….  The system is brittle; courage is contagious.”


Rekindling Sparks of the Spirit

After 50 years, “The Gulag Archipelago can still rekindle the moral scruples essential to our humanity,” writes Daniel
J. Mahoney. “Solzhenitsyn took pointed aim at the ideological justification of tyranny and terror and the chimerical affirmation of a ‘New Man.’” He told the truth of full-blown totalitarianism.

“In Lenin’s hands, good and evil have been completely and utterly relativized. What is good is whatever serves the cause of revolution, no matter how intrinsically evil or ignoble.” Lenin was the first of the 20th century’s “ideological monsters, a theorist/practitioner who vehemently warred with both human nature and moral conscience.” Solzhenitsyn stated, sardonically: “Hitler was a mere disciple [of Lenin and Stalin], but…his murder camps have made him famous, whereas no one has any interest in ours at all.”

“A human being has a point of view!” Solzhenitsyn insisted. “This is what cynics, pseudo-sophisticates, materialists, and ideologists, cannot see,” writes Mahoney. “They are blind to the reality of the human soul…. Communism, and modern theory and practice, has increasingly turned human beings away from the things of the spirit, from the wellsprings of conscience, from the rich and enduring intimations of natural justice and God’s grace.” 

Can the horror happen again? Solzhenitsyn feared that it could. As Jordan B. Peterson writes in his foreword to the 2018 abridged Gulag, today in the West “the doctrine of group identity” renews the ideological lie by placing whole swaths of individuals in suspect groups as the new “class enemy,” deemed “oppressors” for whom there can be no mercy.  But we have been warned, and will have no excuse if we follow this path. Solzhenitsyn reflects on what saved him from becoming an NKVD officer. The thought filled him with “a sense of revulsion.” He was “ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart” (https://tinyurl.com/4hj2wnxf).


“Silence is all we dread/ There’s Ransom in a Voice
“But Silence is Infinity/ Himself have not a face.”

Emily Dickinson


Transgenderism News

Russia’s Supreme Court banned the LGBTQ+ “movement” operating in Russia as an “extremist organization.” The decision apparently does not “outlaw gay people,” but appears to criminalize LGBTQ+ “activism,” especially where connected with international groups. Russia seems suspicious that the movement might not really be about advancing sexual minority rights, but has some darker purpose, like population reduction or social destabilization (https://tinyurl.com/4v874499).

Sharyl Attkisson reports on funding for the top-down “Transgender Leviathan”: Big Pharma (two injections of LupronDepot® cost as much as $73,000); billionaires; and the taxpayer (https://tinyurl.com/2bezezd9).

“Gender-affirming” mastectomies were done in 602 underage Canadian girls, billed to Ontario’s health plan. Figures from private clinics are not available (tinyurl.com/ypvcmzzt).

A trans pronoun mandate was announced by the Biden HHS Dept. for National Coming Out Day. Transgender clinics have support at the highest levels of the Biden regime (https://tinyurl.com/3wjdsah9)

The empire is in flux. Despite its sudden, pervasive rise, cracks are beginning to appear in the transgender empire, writes Christopher Rufo. Its desired outcome is to topple the natural structure of Creation, to transform society in a radical way, and to change the nature of humanity. But it could turn out like the final scene of Mary Shelley’s novel, when Dr. Frankenstein’s hulking monster, shunned by society and betrayed by his father, drifts off into the ice floes, filled with despair (tinyurl.com/459n6twa).


CDC Declines to Test Samples from Biolab

When a housing inspector discovered a clandestine laboratory in Reedley, Calif., because of an illegal garden hose at a supposedly abandoned warehouse, CDC was promptly notified of the thousands of humanized mice, vials labeled as containing numerous pathogens (many in Chinese), and a refrigerator labeled “Ebola.” The filthy, unlicensed facility was claimed to be manufacturing COVID test kits. For months, the CDC refused to investigate. Finally, after a 2.5-day inspection, it concluded that there was “no evidence of select agents,” according to CDC director Mandy Cohen responding to questions from Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), a surgeon (https://tinyurl.com/33dwyr9s). She denied that there was a sign on the refrigerator. CDC declined  to test for Ebola, tuberculosis, malaria, or other pathogens. The lab operator, international fugitive Jesse Zhu/David He, was receiving unexplained payments amounting to at least $90,000 via wire transfer from Chinese banks (tinyurl.com/2rabfuwu).


AAPS Calendar

Jan 20, 2024. Board of Directors meeting (virtual).

Sep 18-21, 2024. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. – https://aapsonline.org/2024am


ACTION OF THE MONTH

Our 80th annual meeting sold out! Plan early to attend the 81st annual meeting of AAPS September 18th through 21st, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas. https://aapsonline.org/2024am


N.Z. Whistleblower Arrested; Data Deleted

Barry Young (“Winston Smith”), who designed and built the COVID vaccine database for the New Zealand Ministry of Health, and designed its pay-per-dose program, became concerned about the mortality he was seeing, and called it to the attention of the Ministry. Instead of doing its own analysis, NZMH besmirched Young as a purveyer of misinformation. Steve Kirsch downloaded and analyzed the data and invited others to do so (tinyurl.com/tuu3v2cj); however, this is no longer possible.

Mortality rates, Young reported, varied greatly between vaccination sites and vaccine batch. As many as 30% of the persons vaccinated at some sites were dead about two years later. More than 21% of persons receiving one particular vaccine batch are dead, he stated (https://tinyurl.com/4pexykkv).

Prof. Norman Fenton pointed out many potential sources of bias, but stated that this “is potentially one of the most important publicly available datasets for examining covid vaccine safety.” He thought the claim about exceptionally deadly batches could be discounted (https://tinyurl.com/2a2pcw7t).

Statistician William Briggs examined the data—which were anonymized, he notes—and concluded that “perhaps the vaccine killed a few, probably younger, people, though we cannot tell for sure.” There was no data on cause of death. “An insurmountable problem…is lack of data on people who did not get any shots.” The only possible comparisons are between people who got various numbers of shots. He did not look at batch numbers. He thinks that the vaccine probably caused deaths because all vaccines do, and there is no evidence that these are any better. “I think the signal of Expert and ruler lying is stronger than any signals of vax-caused death” (https://tinyurl.com/4akksv2f).

The strongest signal might be Young’s arrest, after his home was surrounded by police and raided, for “accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes.” He had anonymized and time-shifted the data to prevent identification of individuals. He could be sentenced to seven years in prison (tinyurl.com/353eemsa).

Although it is too late to keep others from seeing the data, the misinformation authorities are destroying accounts that downloaded it—and not stopping with that file. Researcher Kevin
McKernan, who has reported on DNA contamination of mRNA vaccines (https://tinyurl.com/3af6xf3t) has had all of his lab’s research data (about 1 TB), representing man-years of work, deleted because he hosted a downloadable copy of that file. McKernan used MegaPrivacy as his storage provider for his end-to-end encrypted data.

Jeff Childers suggests that some entity might have access to search all cloud providers and the legal authority to destroy accounts. Dr. McKernan surely had no inkling that he was subject to the jurisdiction of New Zealand—or is there a global authority?

Childers advises:  (1) Keep your critical data on your own server, or at least keep a current local backup. Data stored on someone else’s server is not your data anymore. You’re just allowed to access the data—for now. (2) Cloud data is not private, so don’t put anything on the Internet you wouldn’t want the world to see. Public panic brought us digital “privacy” laws (e.g., HIPPA), but instead of protecting us against government, the government is wielding such laws against us.

Childers concludes: “The silver linings are that, first, the globalists have exposed a significant search capacity that we didn’t know they had. Second, it’s obvious they are terrified of the Young data” (https://tinyurl.com/ynr4mby5).

Childers fact-checked the rumor that 11,500 New Zealand politicians got exemptions from the vaccine, while pushing mandates on everyone else. The actual number is 11,005 (ibid.).

Jacinda Ardern, the N.Z. prime minister responsible for the COVID tyranny, has stepped down. But the newly elected government, while easing tobacco bans, has not promised to end vaccine mandates (https://tinyurl.com/4u3mk5an).


Tip of the Month: Consider options to the oppressive Maintenance of Certification (MOC), or reduce your stress by realizing that options are available. The National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS) has a less onerous, inexpensive certification that is recognized by hospitals in most states now, as listed on its website here: https://nbpas.org/pages/accepting-hospitals. This has no affiliation with AAPS, but we have members who are pleasantly surprised to learn that a nearby hospital accepts NPBAS certification, without the hassles of MOC. Also, to “de-emphasize timed, high-stakes performance exams in the continuous certification process” imposed by ABIM, the American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine has broken away from ABIM and has the support of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Rhythm Society, and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998168).


AG Ken Paxton Sues Pfizer

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Pfizer for engaging in “false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices by making unsupported claims regarding the company’s COVID-19 vaccine in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.”

The claim of 95% efficacy was based on a misleading relative-risk reduction, with only a two-month follow-up. “And, despite the fact that its clinical trial failed to measure whether the vaccine protects against transmission, Pfizer embarked on a campaign to intimidate the public into getting the vaccine as a necessary measure to protect their loved ones.”

When it became apparent that its vaccine was failing and that the viability of its cash cow was threatened, Pfizer responded by “intimidating those spreading the truth, and by conspiring to censor its critics. Pfizer labeled as ‘criminals’ those who spread facts about the vaccine. It accused them of spreading ‘misinformation.’ And it coerced social media platforms to silence prominent truth-tellers” (https://tinyurl.com/mvhudjyf).

Unlike Florida’s, the Texas DTP Act does not exempt Pharma. Remedies could range from damages for each misrepresentation to disgorging all the profits (tinyurl.com/4v874499).


SCOTUS Asked to Hear Military Mandate Case

Two former military members are petitioning for writ of certiorari in Dan Robert and Hollie Mulvihill v. Lloyd Austin. Petitioners were driven out of the military by the unlawful implementation of a mandate by the Biden Administration to receive the experimental mRNA injection known as the COVID vaccine. The issue is exceptionally important because more biological experimentation is in the pipeline, the brief states (tinyurl.com/n7xrhdnn).


Correspondence

George Floyd and the Official False Narrative. The documentary film, TheFallofMinneapolis.com, is a must watch. The corruption of the legal system should frighten us all. Understandably, people’s opinions are formed by what they see in the media. The film shows information that will never appear in legacy media. The false narrative presented by leftist politicians and the media is very similar to the technique used during the pandemic. At the trial of Derek Chauvin, the suppression of evidence is shocking. Prominent people took the witness stand and lied under oath to achieve the desired result. Medical evidence from the autopsy simply did not match the official narrative.

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Abortion and the Culture of Death. As a graduate student, I was a pro-choice libertarian. When I was teaching an evening corporate finance class, a woman in her 40s, for unknown reason, stopped by my desk and showed me drawings of a “partial birth abortion.” I was horrified. Two years later, as Libertarian Party candidate for governor, I took a stand against partial-birth abortion, but was still not convinced that all abortions should be illegal. I called Rep. Ron Paul, M.D., and he sent me a copy of his book Challenge to Liberty, now out of print [his booklet Abortion and Liberty is available at tinyurl.com/2c5yhykw]. After reading it, I became pro-life, as is consistent with the libertarian nonaggression principle and the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill.”

Ohio voters amended the state constitution and effectively allowed abortion up to birth. The “culture of death” mindset explains the state of America and the world. It will take a philosophical revolution to replace the culture of death with “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” 

Murray Sabrin, https://tinyurl.com/ywdnm9ft


Arch-Enemy. How does one become the arch-enemy of the elite thought-shapers of 21st century Western civilization? By uttering heresy against their doctrinal precepts. As Vladimir Putin said in 2013: “People in many European countries are embarrassed or afraid to talk about their religious affiliations. Holidays are abolished or even called something different; their essence is hidden away, as is their moral foundation. And people are aggressively trying to export this model…. I am convinced that this opens a direct path to degradation and primitivism, resulting in a profound demographic and moral crisis. What else but the loss of the ability to self-reproduce could act as the greatest testimony of the moral crisis facing a human society?”

William Schryver, https://tinyurl.com/yc7w2jhs


The Heisenberg Effect. The Dept. of Justice posted a new job listing for eight attorneys to defend the federal government in vaccine injury cases. It is apparently trying to moot lawsuits that claim the PREP Act’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (the CICP) is a horrifying nightmare of bureaucratic incompetence, designed to fail. This is a tiny sign of progress. Werner Heisenberg observed that you can never know what a subatomic particle was doing before you looked at it because the method used to look at it changes it. People act differently—usually better—when they know they are being watched. A  lawsuit or a phone call to an official may not work in the short term. Often, the Heisenberg Effect delivers results long-term, as slightly more careful, slightly better conduct adds up over time. It is one of the best, but least-well-known weapons for change. Never underestimate the value of just paying obvious attention to what government actors are doing.

Jeff Childers, https://tinyurl.com/yckyvmcw


Samizdat in America. [On receiving the first Samizdat Prize from RealClear Politics:] From the earliest days of the pandemic, scientists would pass papers to each other and secretly talk to each other in whispers in the corridors of Stanford…. We would tell each other, “Here’s what the data are showing,” “Why aren’t people seeing this?” And if you tried to share it, God forbid that happened…. I’ve lost count of the number of scientists and doctors who would write to me to say please keep speaking; I can’t, usually because of the threat of losing their job…. American government officials, in concert with big tech companies, attacked and suppressed me and my colleagues for criticizing the official pandemic policies—criticism that has been proven prescient…. The idea was if they could attack me as a “fringe epidemiologist,” what are other scientists going to do? Keep their heads down. It had the desired effect of creating self-censorship at scale…. Scientists are never right; we’re wrong most of the time. The only way we get…close to right is by having people correct us. Censorship is the death of science and the death of people.

Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/xh6hkrt6


Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness. I have taken more than 40 annual influenza shots in accord with medical staff regulations.  Now I am asking, what is the benefit? Interim data from the REVELAC-i Network on influenza vaccination March–July, 2023, in the Southern Hemisphere show a paltry 38% effectiveness in older adults, with the lower bound of the confidence interval at 13%. I demand at least 50% efficacy and will not be recommending the vaccine in my practice this year.

Peter McCullough, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/4vjw89fu

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AAPS News November 2023 – Net Zero

Our science has progressed beyond that of the academy at Lagado in Gulliver’s Travels. One project was “extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.”

“Filling the tank with sunbeams and breezes” is promoted in order to “green the grid” to “decarbonize the economy” to help achieve Net-Zero emissions (https://tinyurl.com/438dhje3).

This assumes that Net Zero is an achievable goal that would “protect” earth’s climate, presumably by keeping it cooler and preventing or reducing hurricanes and other catastrophes.

The American Medical Association (AMA) considers climate change to be an “existential threat.” AMA trustee and M.D./Ph.D. candidate Drayton Charles Harvey states that the health sector needs “to commit to decarbonization and public health” (tinyurl.com/4djweb2b). The AMA Journal of Ethics discusses redesigning “our unsustainable health system” to be a “net-zero” one that “delivers care not at the expense of future generations and our planet but for them” (tinyurl.com/7m25r5ky).

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is spending $500 million on a “Beyond Carbon” campaign designed, among other things, to destroy the American coal industry (tinyurl.com/2p936beb).

“Decarbonize” means to reduce the human-caused contribution to atmospheric CO2 (about 8 Gt C/yr into a total of about 720 Gt) in an effort to achieve a “pre-industrial” concentration of about 278 ppm, in contrast to the current level of 412 ppm (0.0412%). This could be achieved by reducing emissions or by capturing CO2 and returning it to the ground, where it is inaccessible to the atmosphere—or biosphere. The latter is the only means for dealing with the 97% of CO2 from natural sources.

Various carbon-capture technologies, all extremely costly, are being developed. Since 2014, CarbFix (carbfix.com) has removed about 100,000 tonnes (0.1 Gt). The natural mechanism is incorporation into the calcium-carbonate shells of marine organisms, which has sequestered 100 million Gt C, according to Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore. This accounts for the decline from the pre-pre-pre industrial level of CO2 of 2,500 ppm 160 million years ago (tinyurl.com/2d2h9kd3) and close to 6,000 ppm in the Cambrian Era 570 million years ago (tinyurl.com/c6khdvzf).

The “clean, renewable” energy meant to replace the 80% of world energy currently derived from coal, oil, and natural gas generally refers to wind and solar. These, according to economist Peter St Onge, are a $10 trillion scam—to be paid for by future generations (https://tinyurl.com/4pemwv55). Despite the massive subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act, utilities are demanding rate hikes of up to 64%. Recently, he notes, electricity prices in Texas increased 200-fold when the wind wasn’t blowing.

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

The AMA states that SDOH drive 80% of patient outcomes, and urges a comprehensive approach. It supports the creation of 23 new diagnostic (ICD-10) codes for social factors that include access to nutritious food, adequate and safe housing, available transportation, and financial ability to pay for utilities (https://tinyurl.com/2uaktv4c). But the Arizona Medical Association reference committee recommended outright rejection of the following resolution: “that ArMA will actively oppose any governmental rules or programs that will tend to downgrade SDOH, as by causing scarcity or increased prices of housing, electricity, private transportation, or food such as meat and dairy products” (tinyurl.com/3bccpyy3).

They wrote: “ArMA has existing policies on SDOH, and this resolution is not compatible with current evidence and could have long-term implications that lead to worse outcomes.” The “whereas” clauses concerned scarcity and increased costs from Net Zero, and the “sustainability” goal of decreasing consumption of meat and dairy products—as through reduced nitrogen fertilizer, culling herds, shortage of diesel fuel, and seizure of farmland.

Decarbonizing the health sector, responsible for 8.5% of U.S. “carbon emissions,” is claimed to be the overriding concern, since climate change-related health problems “already kill millions of people per year” (NEJM 12/2/21, tinyurl.com/38v72572).

The Real Purpose

As Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., pointed out: “Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life.”

“The human-induced climate change hoax is a trojan horse through which unelected globalist bodies such as the [UN] are attempting to seize totalitarian control over every minute detail of our lives” (https://tinyurl.com/mr63zmzd).

An extensive review of the evidence concludes that: “increases [in atmospheric CO2] during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth’s weather and climate…. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases…do not conform to current knowledge.”

 Increased CO2 has, however, “markedly increased plant growth.” Moreover, abundant low-cost energy is an excellent food insurance plan (tinyurl.com/3f4w2tf8). Arguably, the liberation of sequestered underground CO2 is saving the earth from CO2 starvation, as declining levels had been approaching the 150 ppm level minimum for plant survival (tinyurl.com/mwjvxbfr).

“Net Zero” might ultimately mean net-zero life—or in the short term contribute to a human depopulation agenda.

Is the result the intention?

The Invention That Destroyed a Dynasty

          Paper money was invented 1,000 years ago in the Song Dynasty in China. This was one of humanity’s most spectacular golden ages, which invented much of the modern world. The early Song dynasty was prosperous, thanks to pro-growth Confucian policies. Traditional nobles were replaced with the Imperial Exam system, which promoted from all ranks of society according to ability rather than birth. Economics in the Exam curriculum  taught that property rights and open markets were the foundations for prosperity. But the Song’s printing blocks, which centuries later were brought to Europe by Johannes Gutenberg, were used by interventionist Prime Minister Wang Anshi to finance his socialist policies by printing counterfeit silver certificates. No longer needing tax revenues, the government changed from parasite to predator, writes Peter St Onge (https://tinyurl.com/yj23kez5). Hyperinflation and the collapse of the economy—including coal production and iron smelting as is now occurring with suicidal “Green” policies—followed. The money printers increased their annual issues nearly 14-fold—right up until the capital fell to the Mongols.

“Since 2008 the printing has accelerated to the point that Covid lockdowns finally showed the world’s governments that they don’t need us anymore. Some even say it out loud: MMT  [Modern Monetary Theory] proponent Stephanie Kelton has bragged how governments don’t really need taxes, so they should instead use taxes to punish carbon sinners and “wrong-thinkers” (ibid.).

Costs of Net Zero

·  Running  an all-electric logging truck for one day would require 50,000 pounds of batteries (https://tinyurl.com/ye23jcyh).

·  Grid balancing and backup batteries for a “carbon free” U.S. electrical generating system would cost up to $290 trillion (https://tinyurl.com/58s2bayv).

·   One day of world energy storage at Elon Musk’s best price would cost $190 trillion, twice global GDP—and the batteries wear out in 10 years, writes Alex Epstein (tinyurl.com/53ku7esy).

·  Because of policies that deny people affordable electricity, 70% of Africa’s forests have been cut down for cooking or heating, and clean water cannot be pumped  (tinyurl.com/5y3e7vzk). Net Zero will trap millions in extreme poverty.

·  Because solar and wind projects are typically far from population centers, 49.7 million miles of transmission lines—enough to circle the globe 2,000 times—will need to be built. And tens of thousands of transformers will be needed to step voltage up or down (https://tinyurl.com/2p8eh2vc).

·  Interconnection simulations related to wind and solar are showing that a far more ambitious expansion of infrastructure is needed than anyone has been willing to embrace (Science 9/8/23).

·  The official true cost of Net Zero is the same as spending £1 per second for 31,000 years, states Matt Ridley (https://tinyurl.com/yve2sdfy).

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“If you take environmentalism to an extreme, you start to see humanity as a plague on the surface of the earth.”

Elon Musk, https://tinyurl.com/2jkyf47y

80th Annual Meeting Report from Fort Worth

Officers and Directors: Jane Lindell Hughes, M.D., assumed the office of president, and the following were elected:

President-elect: Erika LeBaron, D.O., Manassas, VA

Secretary: Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake Eden, NY

Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL

Board of Directors: Michael Ciampi, M.D., South Portland, ME; Peter Curka, D.O., Houston, TX; Gil Robinson, M.D., San Antonio, TX; and Craig Wax, D.O., Mullica Hill, NJ.

Resolution 01-2023 passed: Now therefore be it resolved that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons opposes the WHO convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (“WHO CA+,” pandemic accord, amendments to International Health
Regulations, etc.) as drafted by the Intergovernmental Negotiating
Body of the World Health Organization (tinyurl.com/yve27bak).


Awards:

Jeremy Snavely received the Shining Pen “In recognition of your extraordinary contributions to further the cause of ‘All for the Patient.’ Your tireless research, editing, and management have immeasurably enhanced AAPS causes.”

Peter McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., received the Shining Scalpel “In recognition of your courage which has made your
knowledge and experience so valuable. ‘Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at
the testing point’ (C.S. Lewis).”

GOP Presents ‘Health Care Plan Framework’

The Republican Study Committee, chaired by new House Speaker Mike Johnson, has released a 56-page plan (https://tinyurl.com/2svhm4rj) that includes:

·  Reforming the tax code to provide equal tax treatment in the employer and individual health insurance markets;

·  Allowing use of Health Savings Account funds for insurance premiums, direct primary care, and health sharing ministry dues;

·  Increasing allowable, pre-tax contributions to HSAs from $3,500 to $9,000 for individuals and from $7,000 to $18,000 for families;

·  Eliminating ObamaCare mandates that force Americans to pay for coverage they do not want or need;

·  Removing barriers to telemedicine, direct primary care, association health plans, and health sharing ministries; and

·  Enhancing HSAs to allow individuals to effectively own their personalized coverage that will be portable if they change jobs.

AAPS Calendar

Jan 20, 2024. Board of Directors meeting (virtual).

Sep 19-21, 2024. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Mandatory Reporting for Net Zero Medical Care

          At present, reporting of greenhouse-gas emissions by HCOs (health care organizations) is voluntary, but authors of an NEJM Sounding Board article, including former CMS administrator Donald Berwick, advocate for mandatory adoption of centralized nationwide metrics to achieve net-zero health care (https://tinyurl.com/5fr6hcjc). Reporting and improvement in emissions would be part of quality assurance programs, Joint Commission accreditation standards, Conditions of Participation in CMS programs, and value-based purchasing. Emissions to be monitored include CO2, CH4, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfa hexafluoride, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons. The purportedly “patient-centered” program would require consideration of hypothetical global climate impact in choice of anesthetics.

Court Rules for Children’s Climate Crusade

In the Held v. Montana decision that a 15-year-old plaintiff applauded as “monumental,” the court held that the state was required to consider climate change in approving or renewing
“fossil fuel projects.” The cited basis is a clause in the Montana constitution that guarantees residents “the right to a clean and healthful environment,” and stipulates that the state and individuals are responsible for maintaining and improving the environment “for present and future generations.”

The case, which involves 16 plaintiffs ranging from five to 22 years old, is the first such children’s case to go to trial. Individuals claim that the state has enabled industry to harm the climate.

Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Litigation at Columbia University, said: “This was climate science on trial, and what the court has found as a matter of fact is that the science is right,… and every ton of greenhouse gas emissions matters” (https://tinyurl.com/2h35pawt).

The case will be appealed, but as it stands gives a single judge the power to rule on “science,” and to hold economic development hostage to concerns about hypothetical future climate.

Facebook Bans 1950s Quotation

A letter attributed to an 85-year-old retired judge quoted a 1954 textbook warning of “ways to overturn a democracy”: “divide the nation philosophically,” “foment racial strife,” “swarm the nation’s borders indiscriminately and unconstitutionally,” “encourage civil rioting and discourage accountability for all crime,” as well as over-taxation and controlling elections and media. It was shared 11,000 times, before one man who shared it was booted from Facebook. He created a new account, but no longer has access to his original profile, with reunion photos and other memories (https://tinyurl.com/44sa568r).

Consortium News Sues NewsGuard and U.S.

The Consortium for Independent News has filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York  (23-cv-07088) alleging that NewsGuard and the U.S. government are violating First Amendment rights by a practice of labelling, stigmatizing, and defaming American media organizations that oppose or dissent from American foreign and defense policy. Consortium states that NewsGuard has branded the entirety of its 20,000+ articles as “unreliable” based on just six examples. NewsGuard’s “Misinformation Fingerprints” program is contracted with the Department of Defense Cyber Command. NewsGuard, which calls itself “the librarian for the internet,” also has contracts  with WHO, Pfizer, Microsoft, and the American Federation of Teachers. Its advisors include Michael Hayden, “the architect of George W. Bush’s secret domestic spying program,” and Richard Stengel, “a former senior official in Obama’s state department who once described his role as being that of ‘chief propagandist’”  (https://tinyurl.com/4u5ascwn).

Tip of the Month: Regulatory waivers during COVID have mostly ended now. Texas’s relaxed rules expired on June 15, and enforcement may ramp up again. Expirations included a telemedicine waiver that allowed establishing a patient-physician relationship with audio-only telephone, and permitted physicians to diagnose, treat, prescribe, and order tests on this basis. Texas has also ended its waiver of its requirement that physicians register with the medical board their supervising and prescribing authority for PAs and APRNs. Texas has reinstated its limit of seven PAs or APRNs whom a physician can supervise. Other states have also reinstated their pre-COVID  regulations.

‘Reproductive’ Rights in Ohio Constitution

Nearly 57% of Ohio voters approved a state constitutional amendment, making it one of the most pro-abortion states. It guarantees that “[e]very individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care and abortion.” 

Restrictions on abortion would still be technically permissible post-“viability,” though physicians are given the authority to decide viability “on a case-by-case basis.” Moreover, abortions up to birth are protected under the amendment if deemed necessary to protect the mother’s life or health.

Critics have warned that the language of the amendment could also preclude protections against sterilizing or mutilating procedures on minors, because “gender identity” could be construed as relating to reproduction.

Meanwhile, ballot measures to clarify that the states’ constitutions contain no right to abortion failed in Kansas and Kentucky, as did a Montana measure to protect infants born after an unsuccessful abortion attempt (https://tinyurl.com/zy44hum6). 

COVID-Related Litigation

·  Ivermectin Denial. In a wrongful death case, Scott Mantel has sued Mount Sinai Hospital for refusing to continue his wife’s  ivermectin treatment, in defiance of a court order, even though an initial brief trial had led to improvement (tinyurl.com/ypfna5bf).

·   ‘Defective’ Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine. Two test cases in the UK may pave the way for as many as 80 damages claims worth an estimated £80 million over vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT). Plaintiffs state that the efficacy of the vaccine, which was never authorized in the U.S., was overstated. Government advisor Sir John Bell called the risk of the vaccine “asteroid-like” (tinyurl.com/bdhvbh5y).

Correspondence

Texas Church Facilitates Evasion of Law against Sterilizing or Mutilating Minors. A Fort Worth church has established a program called the North Texas TRANSportation Network (NTTN) to provide financial help for persons wishing to travel out of state to seek “transgender procedures.” Texas law SB 14 blocks children from receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomies, and genital surgeries in the state, and requires the state to revoke the medical licenses of physicians providing such treatments. The American Civil Liberties Union in Texas and LGBT legal advocacy groups sued to block the law, but the Texas Supreme Court allowed the law to go into effect as the case moves through the legal system (https://tinyurl.com/yefc9r67). At least one church of this denomination removed the American flag from its sanctuary.

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

The American Climate Corps. Just as Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline (and thousands of American jobs) with a stroke of pen, with another decree he will deploy 20,000 uniformed young climate activists to “advance environmental justice” while “tackling climate change” (tinyurl.com/4ettrf6r). The Administration declines to reveal the cost. If they win Congress in 2024, Democrats vow to deploy an army of 1.5 million climate youth. Perhaps they’ll knock on your door wielding a clipboard and ask about your air conditioner or gas stove (https://tinyurl.com/2m98yxux).

Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA

It’s Worse than You Think. From a perfect paragraph in an article by Chris Bray: it’s not just that “the news media lies,” or “there’s a lot of misleading discourse…. [W]hole overlapping layers of high-status America—in academia, in media, and in politics—are psychotic, fully detached from reality and living in their own bizarre mental construction of a fake world, [having] cultivated a complete mental descent through the looking glass.”

Toby Rogers, https://tinyurl.com/mubsfpx7

There Is No Climate Emergency. Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.

Global Climate Intelligence Group, www.clintel.org

[Letter and >1800 signers at https://tinyurl.com/4nj5z6z5]

Masking: Proof of Bias. A retrospective of all the studies in the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) after 2019, which highly influenced U.S. COVID policy, showed that more than 75% of 77 studies drew positive conclusions about mask effectiveness. However, only 30% even tested masks, and less than 15% had statistically significant results. No studies were randomized, yet more than half drew causal conclusions. The level of evidence was low, and the conclusions were most often unsupported by the data. “Our findings raise concern about the reliability of the journal [MMWR] for informing health policy” (Am J Med 9/28/23). The fix was in. They just lied or said whatever they wanted to in order to control and change the behavior of the public. Science became a mirror image of politics.  They are doing the same thing with the COVID vaccine.

Douglas Farrago, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/4hnf288x

Abortion Is the Symptom. A radio commentator said that Ohio voters had “enshrined” the right to abortion in the state’s constitution—a shrine being  a place of worship. A mass of “womb bodies” (their term) shouted for joy, and some Republicans lamented that abortion was on the ballot because it made it hard for them to win. Soon it will be a moot point as more states build their shrines. When Republicans eschew all losing positions, no measure will ever be on the ballot that attacks the foundations of leftward drift—measures that attack secularism, the expertocracy, or “Equality” (now Equity), the driver of DIE. Becoming more “moderate” (more like a leftist) may be the way to win votes—but not to Win.

William Briggs, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/46t8jj2k

COVID Vaccines Damage Hearts. It has long been known that the mRNA vaccines can cause myocarditis. Now, Radiology has published a study of myocardial fluorine 18 (18F) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on PET/CT images in asymptomatic patients vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 compared with nonvaccinated patients (https://tinyurl.com/7n834m38). It showed that patients who received their second vaccination 1–180 days prior to imaging showed increased 18F uptake compared with nonvaccinated patients. Dye uptake indicates inflammation/damage. It was asserted that the Moderna causes more damage than the Pfizer vaccine because it contains a higher dose.

Joseph Guarino, M.D., Reidsville, NC

 Enablers of Tyranny/Oligarchy. The awful state of science and its use by totalitarians—as with climate change and COVID—allows  governments to grab more power and control.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D.

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AAPS News April 2023 – State Religion

Volume 79, no. 4  April 2023

If religion is defined as “ultimate concern,” then even committed atheists have a religion. Our Founders were opposed to a federal established church, but the “wall of separation” between church and state is only being applied to recognized religion—not to totalitarian, godless ideology.

 Religions generally have a creed, scriptures, a hierarchy, a priesthood, rituals, concepts of sin and judgment, a means of salvation, and punishments for nonbelievers.

“Wokeism” seems to fit these criteria. As do Critical Race Theory, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), and radical environmentalism. Sacraments or rituals include abortion, “anti-racism” struggle sessions, vaccines, and obsessive recycling.

Three great dystopian novels of the early 20th century seem to be prophetic. As in 1984, we have equivalents of the Memory Hole, the watchful telescreen, children spying on parents, the Two-Minute Hate, and the Junior Anti-Sex League meant to discourage romantic love and non-Party loyalty.

We don’t yet have decanted babies as in Brave New World , but they could be here in 15 years if ethical constraints were removed, according to visionary filmmaker and “molecular biologist by trade” Hashem Al-Ghaili. EctoLife facilities could grow 30,000 babies per year in transparent pods, monitored by an artificial-intelligence-based system, he claims. “An ‘Elite Package’ would allow people to choose their baby’s level of intelligence, height, hair, eye colour, physical strength and even skin tone.” Experts do not rule out the possibility (https://tinyurl.com/2dvzznak).

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis is about transhumanism,  seeking immortality, and creating a god: a disembodied Head.

What is the underlying ideology?

Cultural Marxism

Wokeism, DEI, queer theory, radical feminism, post-colonialism, etc., are different species, but all of the same genus—Marxism, stated James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses, in a talk to the European Parliament (tinyurl.com/3mpa9wes). Classical economic Marxism has evolved, like the virus attributed to Wuhan, to adapt to the host.

Although considered an economist because he wrote about economics, Marx was basically a theologian, Lindsay states. In his early writings, Marx says that what makes human beings special is that man is a being that is incomplete and knows that he is incomplete. Marx wanted to create a religion that would supersede all religions and bring man back to his true social nature. To do this, he sought to awaken the underclass and make them the historical agents of change to foment revolution and transform society.

At the end of history, we would have socialism, or equity.

Today’s definition of equity is an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal. The only difference between equity and socialism is the type of property they redistribute. The new species intend to redistribute social and cultural capital as well as economic and material capital.

The working class did not rise up. As Herbert Marcuse pointed out in the 1960s, capitalism gives people a good life. So, the working class is irrelevant, and Marxists who are seeking power can make friends with corporations. The energy for revolution is no longer with workers but in racial minorities, sexual minorities, feminists, and other outsiders.

The formula for the genus of Marxism is to identify an elite class that has access to a special kind of property (e.g., whiteness or normality), and create underclass consciousness against it, to get people to band together to channel resentment and gain power. Marxists call everything they want to control bourgeois, or racist, or homophobic, until they gain control of it.

For 30 years, Marxists studied what they called the culture industry, which commodifies and packages culture and sells it back to people—empty, abstract, stripped of what it actually is. They seized the means of production of the culture industry and started to transform it to sell racial, gender, sexuality-based agit prop as though it were genuine culture.

Wokeness is identity-based Marxism, a constellation of species that all work with the same operating premise, each located in a different “Volk.” LGBTQ is a Volk, as is the Black community. They think of themselves as nations—don’t they all have flags? They are bound together like the various colonized nations around the world seeking liberation from Western civilization.

Wokeism is a Maoist cultural revolution with Americanized identity categories. The new program features “inclusion” and “sustainability.” UN Agenda 2030 is the new socialist standard.

Our future looks like China, if we do not stop the Woke religions, says Lindsay. It’s been successful so far because we cannot even name the enemy. Education has been “redwashed.” Children are taught nothing about Communism.

The Power of Words

In the best-selling novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a Jew who had been hidden in the basement of a German couple wrote a book for their foster daughter. How did Hitler come to power? “The Führer decided that he would rule the world with words…. He planted [the words] and cultivated them…and also planted seeds to create symbols…. [People] were placed on a conveyer belt…. Words were fed into them…. Next, they were fitted with their symbols, and everyone was happy.”


The Importance of Public Opinion

In 2022, the WHO European office produced the Vaccine Crisis Communication Manual, to help countries respond to events that might “erode the public’s trust in vaccines and authorities that deliver them” (https://tinyurl.com/3wrcszym). The overarching goal is to “rebuild trust in vaccines.” However, writes Dr. John Day, “The ‘unsinkable’ control-narrative of global elites has hit an iceberg of cold facts. The band…continues to play waltzes, but not everybody is dancing” (tinyurl.com/2c6vdjd4).


A perspective: Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. This is the weak point of our defences, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong, the right. In a country where opinion has sway, to seize upon it, is to seize upon power. As it is a rule of humanity that the upright and well-intentioned are comparatively passive, while the designing, dishonest and selfish are the most untiring in their efforts, the danger of public opinion’s getting a false direction is four-fold, since few men think for themselves.

– James Fenimore Cooper (The American Democrat 1838)


Updates on COVID Shots

CDC’s VAERS safety signal analysis for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, based on reports from Dec 14, 2020 – July 29, 2022, shows that there are more than 500 adverse events with a safety signal stronger than for myocarditis (tinyurl.com/3xa7v6r9).

Switzerland withdrew all COVID vaccine recommendations; doctors are now liable for harm (tinyurl.com/4msec2f5).

FDA has pulled the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the original Pfizer and Moderna products (https://tinyurl.com/ucr5b8sv), and CDC has issued new guidance for use of the updated bivalent products: “CDC recommends 1 updated COVID-19 vaccine dose for everyone aged 6 months and older” (https://tinyurl.com/ydpvsx3b).

The FDA has, without citing data, lowered the total dose of mRNA to be administered (tinyurl.com/2p8n8f8a).

The “moderate increase in protection [from a bivalent booster] against a probably generally mild disease will be short-lived,” writes Paul Offit, M.D. (NEJM 2/9/23).

The first three people have received compensation from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) for COVID-vaccine injuries:  $2,019 for severe allergic shock and $1,582 and $1,582 for myocarditis. More than 8,000 applications have been filed (https://tinyurl.com/2p96dbta).

The vaccine dose-fatality rate (vaccine-related death/doses delivered) increases dramatically with age, reaching 0.6% for persons over 80 in Israel (https://tinyurl.com/3az4t2kd).


“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it is profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

Frank Zappa


Nonbelievers ID’d

Another species in the Marxist genus is the cult of public health compliance and COVID vaccination.

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system authored by WHO has added a set of codes, not for a disease but for a decision—not to take a COVID-19 shot—and for the reason for declining. Code Z28.3 indicates underimmunization status. Reasons immunization not carried out: contraindication (Z28.0-); patient decision for other or unspecified reason (Z28.2-); patient decision for reason of belief or group pressure (Z28.1).

Once encoded and uploaded into a database, a person’s vaccination status can be accessed by government and private health insurers alike once the CDC classifies it as a reportable event (https://tinyurl.com/4f8sewwt).

The federal government is tracking unvaccinated people who go to the doctor or to the hospital (tinyurl.com/yhr6dwau).

The CDC has so far declined to answer questions by Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), about why the CDC and National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) are gathering data on why Americans decline the COVID shot and how they plan to use it (https://tinyurl.com/5zfr4nt2).

Unvaccinated New York City teachers are having “problem codes” attached to their records, and their fingerprints are being sent to the FBI.  By having their biometric data sent to the FBI, “NYC educators were being set up to be viewed as ‘right-wing extremists’ or even ‘terrorists,’” said Michael Kane, national grassroots organizer for Children’s Health Defense and founder of Teachers For Choice (https://tinyurl.com/3bzp4cxc).

There are plenty of codes for symptoms experienced with COVID-19 disease, but not with COVID-19 vaccine injury (https://tinyurl.com/5bheymba).


How Much Harm Is Too Much?

Of course, we know that correlation does not prove causality,  but how do we establish causality? In 1965, Sir Austin Bradford Hill, a medical statistician, established a set of nine “viewpoints” to determine when data demonstrated causation. The nine criteria are: strength, consistency, specificity, temporality, biological gradient, plausibility, coherence, experiment, and analogy. These were used to show that tobacco causes cancer. Satisfying any one criterion is enough to suggest causality. Of course, temporality is essential (cause must precede effect). Former pharmaceutical executive Sasha Latypova states that all criteria show that the harms of COVID-19 vaccines exceed the benefits (https://tinyurl.com/2p8w3ahs).


AAPS Calendar

Jun 9. Pa. Chapter. https://aaps.pub/pajune9.

Jul 15: Mo. Chapter. https://aaps.pub/mojuly15.

Oct 26-28. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX. https://aapsonline.org/2023am


ACTION OF THE MONTH

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Biden Nationalizes DEI Bureaucracy

By a Feb 16 Executive Order (tinyurl.com/36jcnuw9), President Biden is overhauling the entire federal government along the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The order will create cadres, “Agency Equity Teams, ” to see that DEI ideology is embedded everywhere in a patchwork fashion, explains Christopher F. Rufo (https://tinyurl.com/yu3sknsm). Tens of thousands of DEI ideologues will be subverting the constitutional order with a death-by-a-thousand-cuts strategy. Persons who disagree will be filtered out. The culture will be set by changing the meaning of language and bombarding employees with a constant stream of ideological materials and “training.” Even the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will be regulated. If people are categorized by race, and there’s a difference in any outcome between the groups, it is evidence of racial discrimination. This statistical manipulation justifies the entire package. The initiative will fund third-party political activism and weaponize civil-rights laws. Advocates of Marxist-Leninist guerrilla warfare against the U.S. government will be hired as outside diversity consultants to teach NASA engineers about their “white fragility.”


Religious Exemptions Upheld

Families with religious objections can no longer be forced to vaccinate their children in order to attend school, ruled the U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Mississippi in Bosarge v. Edney (1:22-cv-00233). Attorneys for Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), led by Aaron Siri, argued that since from a public health perspective, a medical exemption to vaccination has the same effect as a religious exemption, the government cannot treat secular activity more favorably than religious activity (https://tinyurl.com/bdfm23xx). According to Greg Glaser, general counsel for Physicians for Informed Consent, this could open a way to limit Jacobson v. Massachusetts (the 1905 decision legalizing mandatory vaccination without religious exemption).


Public Health Powers Curtailed

More than 1,000 legal decisions have been made at the local, state, and federal level regarding public health protections since March 2020, a quarter of which succeeded in weakening public health powers. “The courts are leaving us vulnerable,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. Additionally, at least 30 states, nearly all led by Republican legislatures, have passed laws that restrict the imposition of mask mandates, school closures, or other measures, or require permission from legislatures to renew emergency orders.

“Big court wins” will prevent government overreach in the next declared pandemic, said Peter Bisbee, executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association. “We’ll die with our rights on,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law (Wash Post 3/8/23, https://tinyurl.com/ypcmmufj).

Tip of the Month: Beware of making humorous references to the word “gun” in a hospital. Hospital administrators and nurses looking for something to pin on a good physician have claimed that a mere mention of a “gun,” whether as a joke or quoting popular culture, creates a safety issue for the hospital. Of course, this is an absurd tactic of retaliation.  But in liberal regions where guns are considered by some to be taboo, hospital administrators and nurses in a sham peer review case distorted a joking reference to a gun. Physicians should conduct themselves in a business-like fashion at all times.  No jokes, no levity of any kind, and no comments not directly related to the task at hand. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a hospital “kangaroo court.” 


Sham Peer Review in South Africa

Dr. Shankara Chetty is being accused by the Health Professional Council of South Africa of “unprofessional conduct” and contravening ethical Rule 19, which requires practitioners to use only technologies that have been proven by evidence-based medicine to fulfill claims made about them. Dr. Chetty saw patients in person throughout the pandemic. He treated 14,000 patients with COVID, including those with comorbidities; zero (0) patients were hospitalized or died. He observed a type 1 hypersensitivity reaction that occurred on day 8 in susceptible patients, which required high-dose antihistamines and steroids. He advised hundreds of specialists from around the world and received a Malaysian award for saving thousands of lives. But he did not accept the official narrative. Those who do not are “now the victims of this new apartheid,” writes Nadya Swart (tinyurl.com/x5xsuts6).


Vaccination Incentives ( Kickbacks)

Reportedly, insurers offer substantial bonuses to pediatricians for vaccinations if most of the patients in the practice are fully vaccinated”—up to $400 per child (tinyurl.com/2xk2p268). These are “performance-based incentives” (https://tinyurl.com/3xay4h9t).

It is unlikely that anti-kickback statute penalties would apply to incentives to receive COVID-19 shots (https://tinyurl.com/jeecz9a4). California Medicaid paid $350 million to providers between September 2021 to February 2022 for meeting performance criteria such as increasing vaccination rates in certain groups by 75% (https://tinyurl.com/5xutvtds).


Chilling the Transgender Industry

Lawmakers propose expanding the statute of limitations for medical malpractice suits related to treating minors with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or “sex change” surgery.  

In most states, the statute of limitations is around two years, making it impossible for some detransitioners to sue. It may take 4 or 5 years for patients to realize that they have made an irreparable mistake. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of Do No Harm, stated that creating a private right of action and expanding statutes of limitation would sharply curtail the child “gender-affirming”  industry. Most pediatric gender clinics are part of large hospital institutions that are highly sensitive to litigation. Most are self- insured, and would not want to risk a trial that might be 20 years out, for example, for not getting proper informed consent or not explaining potential complications (tinyurl.com/2p8na43z).

The number of pediatric transgender clinics in the U.S. has grown from one in 2007 to 300 now, according to Abigail Shrier (https://tinyurl.com/bthm7j35).


Correspondence

No Gun Control for Federal Agents. Why do HHS and FDA need military drones, hundreds of millions of rounds of hollow-point bullets, shotguns, submachine guns, and assault rifles? “The number of federal agents armed with guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment, authorized to make arrests, and trained in military tactics has nearly tripled over the past several decades.”

And “there are now more bureaucratic (nonmilitary) government agents armed with weapons than there are U.S. Marines. As Forbes reports, ‘The federal government has become one never-ending gun show’” (tinyurl.com/ynujznar). Whatever happened to the Posse Comitatus Act?

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Masks Don’t Work; Cochrane Reviews Compromised. The Cochrane review found that wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to influenza-like or COVID-19-like illness transmission—as many of us said two year prior. However, Cochrane weakens the result. Once the premier resource, it has been corrupted by pharma and academic  scientists. It has lost its way and destroyed itself over COVID funding money. In an interview with Maryanne Demasi, the study’s lead author Tom Jefferson stated: Cochrane delayed the release by 7 months, during which critical policy decisions were made and some Cochrane scientists published unacceptable studies that gave “the right answer.” Jefferson doesn’t think much of the “Swiss cheese model,” which assumes that we know how respiratory viruses transmit—but we don’t.

Paul Alexander, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/9zzxw2vb


The End to the Exception? In his book Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (2013), Joshua Mitchell writes that the business of gender is a permutation of the equity obsession. 

In Democracy in America, deTocqueville invented the idea of American exceptionalism because America was the first nation founded on equal rights for citizens, in a world where aristocracy/oligarchy was the rule. He warned, however, that equality could be the end of democracy if equality of opportunity was distorted to mean equal outcomes (“equity”), a nonsensical idea that requires totalitarian management by a tyrant class of oligarchs.  

Mitchell writes: “A new political religion has full command over the hearts and minds of elect parishioners, who operate on the basis of an intersectional debt-point scheme that gives them moral clarity about who is pure and who is stained. This is identity politics, the spiritual eugenics of our time…. I worry that the idea of original sin has migrated…into politics,…[in] the form of…  group-scapegoating, which intends to purge…[the] irredeemably stained, along with all that they have wrought in history, so that the world may be made pure (https://tinyurl.com/b5hxv6kh).

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


The Rest of the Story on Race and Poverty. A higher percentage of Blacks (19.5%) live in poverty than non-Hispanic whites (8.1%). But the absolute number of impoverished non-Hispanic whites is higher (15.9 million vs. 8.5 million), showing the falsity of the claim that all whites come from privilege. From 1970–2019, the poverty rate for whites increased slightly, while decreasing for other ethnic groups. With rising costs, the middle class—which keeps a nation from bifurcating into a two-class society of the powerless poor and the powerful wealthy—is under siege. Home ownership has declined; nearly three in eight homes today are rentals. As Victor David Hanson says, “The result is a new American peasantry,…who own little or no property.” They are like medieval peasants dependent on propertied overlords.

Craig Cantoni, Tucson, AZ 


Death Down Under.  Even Australia—the poster child for COVID fascism—now recommends the shots only for the elderly and those with health risks. Perhaps it’s because Australia is experiencing worse excess mortality than at any point in 80 years, while neighboring New Zealand is experiencing the worst mortality since the Spanish flu. Officials won’t openly acknowledge the likely cause, but their policy changes regarding boosters clearly demonstrate a quiet walk-back of the needle idol, as Daniel Horowitz points out (https://tinyurl.com/syyaj7mr). The Associated Press fact-check team has concluded that the surge in deaths must be because of COVID itself. But that is a self-indictment of the vaccine.

Stewart Tankersley, M.D., Montgomery, AL


The ‘Equity’ Agenda. The UN introduced Agenda 21 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 1992. It has been adopted in every country at all levels of government. The new target date is 2030 to bring equity to everyone on earth. The motivator—fear of climate change—infiltrated public schools via student TV channels, video games, movies, Saturday cartoons, and other mass media forms of indoctrination (https://tinyurl.com/n2tda9fu). An Equity Pledge proposed by the Racial and Social Justice Commission of Prince William County, Virginia, promises to agree to the group’s norms by “monitoring my thoughts for internal dialogue” and to “reflect on my…impact on others before asking a question or making a comment.” 

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/2kupnerv

AAPS News March 2023 – Irreconcilable Differences

 Volume 79, no. 3  March 2023

Divisiveness has reached such a point that some are actually contemplating a divorce between “red” states and “blue” states, and Kurt Schlichter writes novels about it. Given the power asymmetry between leftist and conservative factions, it seems remarkable that so far the Left has only achieved a stalemate.

While the Left is waging “5GW” (fifth generation warfare—not related to cell towers), along with deploying the vast resources of the administrative state to crush opponents, “Conservatism, Inc.” seems content to be a graceful loser. It sends out messages to motivate its base to send money, but without offending the really huge vested interests. Ditto for most elected officials.

Note how circumspect “conservatives” are about the irreconcilable issues: COVID vaccination and the LGBTQ++ agenda. As the serious adverse effects of the COVID shots are becoming undeniable, some admit that mistakes were made, but claim that millions of lives were saved—please forgive us. But have conservatives fought unconstitutional emergency powers? Prominent Republicans are courting LGBTQ++ activists—talking about freedom, privacy, and compassion. Where is the outrage about the industry that exploits disturbed patients, especially children, and the fraudulent “science”?

What Will Be the Partitioning Issue?

Will the incremental moves to the Left, the constant shift of the Overton Window, with endless compromise by the Right continue? Or will one issue eventually provoke a sharp split?

To great applause, Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles told a CPAC audience that there “can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing….  Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology” (https://tinyurl.com/ye4sm5ya).

“Genocidal!” was the leftist response. (Ironically, fully “transitioned” people would genocide themselves.) Activists are worried about nearly 300 bills “designed to discriminate against transgender people” that have been introduced in state legislatures (ibid.). These are most commonly aimed at banning “gender-affirming care” for minors.

Another unapologetic Daily Wire commentator, Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog), tweeted: “The core difference between me and my critics on the Right is that I aim to utterly defeat, humiliate and demoralize those who castrate children, wage war on the foundations of human society, and attack truth itself, while my critics hope to find ‘common ground’ with these people.”

For decades, scholarly conservatives have respectfully studied the transgender issue, hoping to persuade with facts and logic. But extremists will not be converted, nor will those whose objective  is to create chaos and destroy our culture. But what about the “swing voters”? Walsh writes: “One of the key ways of swaying the middle is by making gender ideology seem utterly repulsive and insane. Which it is” (https://tinyurl.com/4bz469ts).

Conservative consultants are appalled by such strong language. But what about parents who see their children turned against them and subjected to sterilizing and mutilating procedures? How will they feel about physicians such as Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who justified mastectomy in young girls: “If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them” (https://tinyurl.com/2bjhehj2).

“Transphobes” are portrayed as fascist aggressors, but as Walsh points out, trans activists started the fight. A couple decades  ago, they could have had what they said they wanted: freedom to live their lives in peace. Then they started demanding that “the rest of us abandon everything we know about physical reality.” No others have ever had the right, he said, to do whatever they want and then be “affirmed” and celebrated for it, or to take possession of the English language. TG activists now cry victim because some have said “no” to their demands, e.g., the right to induct children into a “suicidal cult” (tinyurl.com/5effaa53).

Is this overstated? Some 6,000 schools nationwide have rules  that prevent faculty and staff from disclosing to parents a student’s gender status without that student’s permission, according to Parents Defending Education (tinyurl.com/yp5ezk3t).

Lack of legal support does not deter some trans activists. M2F Eli Erlick, a Ph.D. candidate, writes on Twitter that he orders four times more estrogen and testosterone blockers than he takes, and distributes them illegally, for free, so that no minors need to go without medication because of a state ban. He claims this activity puts him at minimal risk, and that nothing has happened despite “tens of thousands” of people reporting him to the DEA and FBI (https://tinyurl.com/pn4rrej7).

How Could Partitioning Work?

 The late Justice Antonin Scalia concluded, “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede.” Nevertheless, the Texas Nationalist Movement,  more than 400,000 strong, which wants “Texit,” has been growing since 2005 (tinyurl.com/msvzs4s8).

Instead, what about building parallel communities and institutions, with virtual walls, based on exclusion of irreconcilables. Exclude all who want to kill you, take away your freedom, separate you from your children, lie to you, destroy your history and your culture, eliminate excellence, and impose cultural Marxism. “Inclusion” as in “DEI” means exclusion of life and liberty.

AAPS Statement on ‘Gender-affirming Care’

          The AAPS Board of Directors issued the following statement on “gender-affirming care” for minor children:

1. Physicians and medical professionals should refuse to be mandated or coerced to participate in procedures to which they have ethical or scientific objections or which they believe would harm a patient.

2. Reproduction requires a male gamete (sperm), which can only be produced by a person of XY genotype, and a female gamete (egg), which can only be produced by a person of XX genotype. Primordial germ cells are present at birth.

3. Biological sex is determined at conception by genotype and apart from rare anomalies, which result in ambiguous genitalia, sex is correctly identified at birth—and is indeed obvious.

4. The construct of gender fluidity in the current cultural discourse is controversial.

5. Through medical, surgical, and other interventions, it is possible to change the physical appearance of one’s body. Changing physical appearance does not change biological sex.

6. There has been an explosive increase in persons who identify with the construct of gender different from sex, at an age where identity is easily malleable and brain development is not fully concluded.

7. Conflicting motivations have led to a growing industry dedicated to providing “gender-affirming” procedures that are generally irreversible and have a high probability of causing sterilization. These include puberty “blockers,” sex hormones, and surgery, such as castration, penectomy, and mastectomy. They commit a patient to a lifelong need for medical, surgical, and psychological care.

8. “Gender-affirming care” in minors is medically and ethically contraindicated because of a lack of informed consent. There are inherently unknown and unknowable long-term risks, and the consequences of removing normal, healthy organs are irreversible.

5th Generation Warfare

An extension of asymmetric and insurgent warfare, the goal of 5GW is to disrupt and defeat opponents by creating new cognitive biases. The most effective strategies mix truth with fiction, and act to increase confusion and disorder so that the targets are not sure what or whom to believe. Social media and the 24-hour news cycle are exploited. Governments, corporations, organized or decentralized groups, even individuals, can lead 5GW (tinyurl.com/c573tyn3).

Deleting ‘Woman’

The pro-transgender Irish government is trying to have the word “woman” stripped from the constitution, according to the leader of a populist party. The provision that protects women’s special right to home life is said to support the idea that only women can bear children (https://tinyurl.com/ysbme5p6).

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“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be forbidden to think, so as not to insult idiots.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Is Exclusion OK? 

Trans activist (F2M nonbinary they/them) Massa Gessen told interviewer David Remnick in the Mar 11, 2023, New Yorker (https://tinyurl.com/46crxbu3): “As journalists, we’re not under obligation to quote every single view on an issue. I think we have the right to exclude the view that somebody’s not who they say they are.” Gessen states, “Being trans is not a medical condition, but it marries you for life to the medical system.” Regarding Michael Knowles’s statement to CPAC, Gessen opined that there was no distinction between eradicating transgenderism ideology and eradicating trans people as such.” (Try substituting “whiteness” and “white people.”) Bills to restrict “gender-affirming care” are “are about signalling [sic], and what they’re signalling is the essence of past-oriented politics.”

Excluding the Unvaccinated

A study in 21 countries examined discriminatory attitudes that COVID-vaccinated persons held against the unvaccinated. Exclusionary attitudes toward the unvaccinated were 2.5 times higher than toward Middle Eastern immigrants. The level of antipathy was higher toward the unvaccinated than toward ex-convicts, atheists, or mentally ill persons, and about the same as toward drug addicts. In the U.S. study, respondents were also asked about restricting publicly recognized rights. There was significant support for restricting unvaccinated persons’ freedom of movement, place of residence, freedom of speech, and access to unemployment and welfare benefits (Nature 1/26/23).

Transgender Updates

·  Parental Rights. A Florida law requiring parental notification about services for mental and physical health is a “gag rule,” states Rachel Levine. She said some “LGBTQI+” children need to replace their parents with “one supportive adult,” such as a teacher or counselor (https://tinyurl.com/29x683ae).

·  “Woke” Language in Preschool. Mandatory training for early childhood educators in N.C. includes drills in pronoun usage. One teacher, who identifies as a gay man, says that he wears a skirt to school and tells the children that “I want to make sure that I feel safe wearing a skirt in the classroom.” He fears that someone might laugh or feel uncomfortable (tinyurl.com/5yv86ccx).

·  Tide May Be Turning… against treating minors. A coalition is building, states Scott Newgent, who transitioned F2M at age 50. “They promise you Candyland, but instead you get Vietnam”—a constant fight to survive (https://tinyurl.com/2x5htx85).

AAPS Calendar

Mar 30. Webinar. Do No Harm. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb.

Oct 26-28. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX.

ACTION OF THE MONTH

The FTC has extended the comment period for a proposal to ban non-compete clauses in employment contracts. Take action before April 19 at: https://bit.ly/ftcnoncompete.

Feds Resist Another  COVID Remedy

          A large, double-blind, randomized controlled trial (RCT) concerning a xylitol-containing nasal spray as a possible COVID preventive or treatment was published in October 2022. There were 62% fewer infections in medical workers using the spray compared with placebo. A comparable product, Xlear, is available in the U.S. The FDA has failed to carry out requested clinical trials, and the FTC has filed a lawsuit against Xlear for allegedly claiming usefulness against COVID (tinyurl.com/55dnj55w).

Transparency Rules Disregarded

For 20 years, the U.S. government has urged researchers to post results of clinical trials. A 2007 law made reporting mandatory as a result of allegations that patients were being harmed because companies withheld evidence that their drugs were ineffective or harmful. A widely cited case involved paroxetine (Paxil™). A final rule was issued in 2018. Science examined more than 4,700 trials whose results should have been posted on ClinicalTrials.gov, and found that sponsors violated the reporting law 55% of the time  (Science 1/17/20). Stiff penalties were prescribed, but as of April 2022, only four notices of noncompliance had been issued, and no civil monetary penalties assessed (tinyurl.com/26uycfk3).

The Gender Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is the mythical area of the Atlantic Ocean within which ships and aircraft have been known to vanish without a trace. “With transgenderism, all reason and logic disappears within what we might call the Gender Triangle,” writes Daniel Moody. “The Gender Triangle is that area enclosed by the relationships between three distinct models of gender—the social, medical and legal.” He concludes that transgenderism is a legal fiction, a project of the state to airbrush the biological reality of sex from the law. “Our body is vanishing without a trace from the sea of law.” Whether an idea is valid or not, it becomes the concern of society when it has the law behind it (tinyurl.com/mz8898ek).

Tip of the Month: Avoid unnecessary or exaggerated admissions of wrongdoing. It can be a mistake to think that admitting fault will cause a problem to go away. The courts, medical boards, and sham peer review systems prefer to base discipline on what a target himself has admitted. While admitting fault can be helpful in interpersonal relations, it can boomerang if included in an email or other written form. Many criminal defendants end up regretting what they were forced to admit as part of a plea bargain. Settlement agreements with medical boards and anyone else should be carefully written to ensure that there are no admissions of fault, to the extent these are possible to avoid.

Trusted News Initiative Sued under Antitrust Law

TrialSite Inc. and others have filed suit against TNI, which includes legacy media and Big Tech companies that control 90% of social media and search-engine markets, for their collusive censorship of online health and political news publishers who question TNI’s reporting on COVID and U.S. political issues (https://tinyurl.com/hmbzxjhf).

Juries Should Not Make Law

In an amicus brief filed by the AAPS Educational Foundation in United States vs. Tou Thao, attorney Andrew Schlafly writes: “Just as courts do not properly legislate from the bench, neither do juries.” Officer Thao, assigned to do crowd control during the arrest of George Floyd, was criminally convicted and is imprisoned because of failure to intervene when his superior officer was restraining the suspect, who died.

There was no fair notice of federal criminality concerning  Officer Thao’s conduct. If the draconian penalty of imprisonment is to be applied to a bystander police officer when there is a death of an allegedly drug-intoxicated suspect being taken into custody by another officer, Schlafly writes that “this new public policy should be considered and resolved based on legislative hearings and considerable debate, not by a mere jury after viewing a disturbing video as played at an emotional trial.”

The amicus states that the theory of “positional asphyxia,” asserted to have caused Floyd’s death, is “doubtful medical science,” and “not susceptible to a finding beyond reasonable doubt by a rational jury.” Also, it is not for a jury to decide whether a bystander should have suspected that a suspect might be fentanyl intoxicated and in immediate danger of death. A rational jury cannot find sufficient mens rea to convict a mere bystander of an unlawful killing when there is no way under the Daubert standard even to hear testimony about the predictability of that death.

“The verdict must accordingly be reversed in adherence to the Rule of Law that does not imprison people based on unscientific speculation by a jury” (https://tinyurl.com/45k468fd).

COVID ‘Misinformation’ Cases

·  Attorney Rick Jaffee provides a Mar 9 update on COVID cases in western states (https://tinyurl.com/ysf4hw3d).  He reads the legislative history of AB 2098 as an acknowledgment that the board can’t stop doctors from speaking out in public about any matter of public interest. So, that part of the Federation of State Medical Boards invitation to medical boards to pursue doctors for “soapbox speech” appears to be blocked in California, but not other states. The situation is complicated if treatment decisions are involved. Høeg v. Newsom, Hoang v. Bonta, McDonald v. Lawson, and Couris v. Lawson will be affected by the action of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, expected later this year.

·  Missouri v. Biden, also called the “Show Me versus Shut Up” case, could be, according to some, the “most important civil liberties case ever tried in a U.S. court.” It has numerous plaintiffs and an expanding list of government agency and individual government defendants, a “devil’s scorecard of weaponized agencies and bad actors.” Plaintiffs claim that the government censored Americans both directly and indirectly “through bullying, bribing, hectoring, nagging, and setting up one-way ‘partnerships’ with big tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.” The case has been to the U.S. Supreme Court more than once on discovery issues. Plaintiffs’ investigators have unearthed evidence of government-sponsored censorship starting well before the pandemic. One official described the unprecedented “integrated, holistic partnership with social media” as the “model of the future.” The case, filed May 5, 2022, has faced every government effort to obstruct it (https://tinyurl.com/3rjhbjs5).

Correspondence

Tracking Your Brain Waves. The last bastion of privacy is in one’s brain. However, technology has been developed which will allow employers (and government) to track brain wave signals, and algorithms exist to analyze what’s going on in your brain. China, for instance, requires train drivers to wear special caps with

electrodes inside to determine whether they are focused on driving the train or are fatigued. Some factories in China monitor the brain waves of employees to determine who might be disruptive on the factory floor.  Just imagine what hospitals could do with that technology. At a peer review hearing, the “prosecutor” projects the accused physician’s EEG on the screen along with the analysis algorithm and says “here is the proof” that this physician harbors disruptive thoughts. According to an article in WSJ (tinyurl.com/mrx3p6zp), such devices help determine whether you are conservative or liberal. The abuse potential is very high, and there are no laws governing the use of such data.

The term “thought police” has gained a whole new meaning.

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Losing the Plot. Shortly before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger observed that in Europe “there is a strange lack of desire for a future….”

America has reached that moment in Blazing Saddles when Mel Brooks throws away the script, and the brawling cowboys crash through the wall into the next soundstage, where all parts are interchangeable: Men become women, women become men, and then pregnant men, and then threaten the hospital for the humiliation of having to give birth in a “maternity ward”…. In today’s America, everything’s ablaze….

COVID fits naturally into such a world. What matters is to strike the correct attitude and ignore your lyin’ eyes. As ex-Pope Benedict observed, “Children, who are the future, are seen as a threat for the present.” Elderly adults sacrifice their infants to ward off the evil spirits of Omicron. The medical establishment is largely silent on this and many things, and their administrative bosses have publicly gone along with the notion that a child is “assigned” a “gender” at birth. We have extended nihilism to our private parts, to human biology….

Woke America is for losers: it’s what fills the void when you have trashed your history….

So, at the dawn of another Year Zero, I renew my old credo: Unless you’re prepared to surrender everything, surrender nothing —and don’t waste your time with alleged rock-ribbed politicians who have surrendered far too much already.

Mark Steyn, excerpted from https://tinyurl.com/mjudxjjj

Future-oriented Politics. The World Economic Forum’s plan to save the world is to cram everyone into “smart” “15-minute cities,” where a permit is needed to cross into the next zone. The only way out of a meager existence will be the Metaverse, a virtual world that will fulfill every need and desire. Even the ideas behind having a physical partner and a family are becoming obsolete! Our youth are now being trained to accept cybersex as the new normal. Reality doesn’t have to enter into this new equation of life and sex. Sex will increasingly replace love making. The nobility of being part of a family, a culture, and something more important than one’s own narcissistic self is being swept away in the remaking of modern society’s dystopian future.

We need instead to create intentional communities, with commitment to traditional values and long-term human relations.

Robert W. Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/mr3tnrbt

Only PIC Members Protected. The court has not yet ruled on our First Amendment arguments in the Høeg v. Newsom challenge to California’s AB 2098. The preliminary injunction against enforcement applies only to plaintiffs and PIC members (see https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/doctor-join).

Shira Miller, M.D., Oceanside, CA

‘Experts’ Deny Science. NEJM’s article entitled “Protecting Transgender Health and Challenging Science Denialism in Policy” uses denialism to denigrate any opinion contrary to that of the latest set of experts to claim sovereignty over a controversial subject. Denialism is another weapon in the rhetorical armory of the Left to stifle debate and intimidate those opposing a narrative that the socialist/sex deviancy army pushes. The preferred method of challenging laws restricting transgender therapy is litigation, not repeal. Doctors with an inherent conflict of interest (those who are paid to provide “gender-affirming care”) may be accepted as the sole authoritative voice in court (https://tinyurl.com/2p9tsd4n).

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX

The Extreme Danger of Ideology. Seeing drawings from the Gulag reminded me of Solzhenitsyn’s reflections in Chapter 4 of The Gulag Archipelago: “Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble—and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology…—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and…helps to make [the evildoer’s] acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others’ eyes.”

John Leake, https://tinyurl.com/msbznb4n

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AAPS News February 2023 – The Biostate

Volume 79, no. 2

The biostate was born, it is said, at the meeting of G20 leaders in Bali, Indonesia, Nov 15-16, 2022. Its declaration (https://tinyurl.com/4z7n5ktb) called for the establishment of a global vaccine passport and digital health ID scheme. “We acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods, under the framework of the IHR (2005), to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognising digital…and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations.”

The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, which went into force in 2007, are a legally binding agreement of 196 countries developed under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO). They require countries to strengthen surveillance capacities at border crossings, and they introduced international certificates of vaccination.

The Business 20 (B20) panel held ahead of the G20 summit  urged widespread adoption of digital COVID-19 certificates that would be part of a “technology-enabled ‘always-on’ global health infrastructure.” Their proposal, to be introduced at the World Health Assembly in May 2023, would revise the IHR to give WHO legally binding powers to implement such measures in the future, potentially overriding national sovereignty.

WHO would not have the power to force compliance, but peer pressure works. So far, the only resistance has come from African countries, who view it as neocolonialism.

The COVID passport is the gateway for all-encompassing digital ID, stripping citizens of all rights and replacing them with a revocable privilege to work, to travel, to obtain medical care, to be educated—to live. The Indian Aadhaar system, the world’s largest biometric ID system, which covers 92% of the population, “acts as a tool for social exclusion and corporate influence.” Several cardless persons reportedly starved to death because they could not access benefits to which they were entitled.

At the G20, Klaus Schwab claimed that the current  crises  represent an opportunity for “a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world,” with “the fusion of our physical, digital and biological identities.” Digital IDs are essential in a “revolution” aimed at blurring the line between our bodies and emerging technologies, e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and quantum computing (tinyurl.com/yn9zwac7).

The Meaning of ‘Bio’

In today’s perversion of language, certain adjectives or prefixes stealthily reverse the meaning of a word. “Social justice” means injustice to individuals to benefit the collective. A biostate would destroy the nation state and subject existing laws to a “global  health infrastructure.” Bioethics, according to the late Jeffrey Hall Dobken, M.D., M.P.H., replaces the Oath of Hippocrates. It mainly involves calculations of relative social value. Bioethicists consider themselves guardians of social justice and stewards of correct thinking (https://tinyurl.com/brdt74ev).

Paradoxically, “bio” ultimately negates biology and strives to transition through “transhuman” to “posthuman.” Instead of “cyborg,” “augmented human” is becoming the preferred, less threatening term. First, a direct human-to-computer interface—human/machine fusion—then possibly augmented reality and virtual reality, including nerve stimulation.

Medical possibilities include controlling prosthetic limbs with thought, but the major impetus comes from the military. The newly established Biotechnologies for Health and Human Performance Council (BHPC) aims to enhance warfighting capability. Two-way data transfer through neuro-silica interfaces could, for example, enhance target acquisition for drone attacks. The military is also heavily invested in gene-editing.

Propaganda is one of the BHPC Study Group’s functions: “Efforts should be undertaken to reverse negative cultural narratives of enhancement technologies” (tinyurl.com/2f3jvv98).

Human augmentation research is called “evolution” by the UK Ministry of Defence (ibid.). The future of life will not be natural selection as in the past, but intelligent design—by Homo deus, says World Economic Forum advisor Yuval Noah Harari. We have the biotechnology to hack the software of life. All we need is information. The products of the future will be “bodies, brains,  and minds,” Harari states (https://tinyurl.com/3z9ucbem).

In a Net Zero, decarbonized world (in which some even advocate killing our cats and dogs to reduce our “carbon footprint”), will we transition from carbon-based to silicon-based life—once the stuff of science fiction (https://tinyurl.com/2zx35uce)?

Much research is now “in silico” (computer-based modeling) rather than in vitro or in vivo. Some speculate that computers or robots, with sufficiently complex artificial intelligence, might develop consciousness . Some even speculate that they could achieve immortality by downloading their “software” into a computer (would its consciousness be your consciousness?).

Let us not imagine that robots will follow Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics (see I, Robot): “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Military robots are designed to kill.

Human-designed life forms might follow a WEF-defined “rules-based order,” but Harari et al. make no mention of characteristics present even in animals like dogs: displays of joy or sorrow, empathy, or instinctive protection of their human.

The biostate is a biology denier—indeed, a life denier.


The Roots and Offspring of Transhumanism

The term “transhumanism” was coined in 1957 by Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous and grandson of Thomas Huxley (“Darwin’s bulldog”). Julian managed the post World War II eugenics movement. After the Nazi atrocities, a radical eugenics policy became “for many years politically and psychologically impossible,” but one goal of UNESCO, which Julian founded, was to inform the public “so that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” Achieving UNESCO’s goals would require “the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organization” (tinyurl.com/5n8z5kcb).

“Cybernetics,” Norbert Wiener’s term, based on aeronautics and radar systems, was envisioned as the tool for global information control. He wrote that the ultra rapid computing machine that used consecutive switching devices was a model of the nervous system. He assumed that “metaphysical” concepts (such as purpose, free will, justice, and soul) had no existence beyond the merely physical characteristics of the measurable electrochemical properties of the brain (tinyurl.com/3ahr2rhd).

The growing cult of Artificial Intelligence is guided by a belief in the inevitable merger of man and machine. To deal with the “unpredictability” factor of human creativity, the Frankfurt School developed new brainwashing tools such as “sensitivity training,” which relies heavily on guilt complexes—the foundation of Critical Theory. Leading psychiatrists from London’s Tavistock Clinic and the Frankfurt School organized a concerted program to “eliminate the sickness of national patriotism, belief in truth, and family love throughout the Cold War period” (ibid.).

Neo-Malthusians gained great power when John Holdren, a protégé of Paul Ehrlich, became Obama’s science czar. Now, Biden’s science czar Eric Lander has overseen the re-activation of  Obama-era science policy in a technocratic overhaul conforming to the WEF’s Great Reset agenda, using the vast power of the Emergency Authorization Act to steamroll gene therapy technologies in the guise of “vaccines.” The connection between yesterday’s eugenics organizations and the rise of modern mRNA operations “should be kept firmly in mind,” writes Matthew Ehret (https://tinyurl.com/5n8z5kcb).

 Gene therapy and other modes of human “enhancement” do not fall under ethical research guidelines because they are not intended to be therapeutic (https://tinyurl.com/mrydrh23).


Jerry Arnett, M.D., R.I.P.

Jerry Arnett, M.D., a freedom fighter for 50 years, was well-known to AAPS meeting attendees and to readers of our journal, for which he wrote frequent book reviews. As a flight surgeon, Dr. Arnett flew 144 combat missions in Vietnam. In his pulmonology practice, he connected directly with patients, not government or insurance companies. He inspired his daughter Brenda Arnett, M.D., to open an independent cash-based family practice.  “He was West Virginia at its best,” writes James Bovard (https://tinyurl.com/ynf2mrav).


“And thus I clothe my naked villany/ With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ/ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

William Shakespeare, Richard III  (I, 3)


Is Pfizer Doing ‘Directed Evolution’? 

In a Project Veritas (PV) video that has garnered some 20 million views despite efforts to suppress it, a highly placed executive seemed to be saying that Pfizer was “mutating” COVID so that it can produce new vaccines. “Don’t tell anyone this!” This would be good for Pfizer but not good for Americans, he said. He also remarked on the revolving door between regulators and drug companies. When the interviewer asked whether Pfizer was doing gain-of-function research, the answer was laughingly no, but you might call it “directed evolution.”

The internet was quickly scrubbed of the credentials of Jordon Trishton Walker, M.D., Pfizer Director of Research and Development—Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning. In a follow-up meeting with James O’Keefe of PV, Dr. Walker became extremely agitated when he learned of the video, and asserted that it was all a lie to impress a date.

Tucker Carlson discussed the mainstream news blackout (tinyurl.com/4ayr6rak). Along with commentary on the PV video, Dr. Peter McCullough and Steve Kirsch discussed the research that Pfizer and the government are not doing on COVID vaccine adverse reactions, especially possible cardiac effects in airline pilots (tinyurl.com/476b99ed).

Pfizer released a response late Friday evening (https://tinyurl.com/5bskxxmv), which was subjected to a “forensic autopsy” by Dr. Robert Malone (tinyurl.com/5n7km5c9).


Cheering for the End of Humanity

According to French philosopher Michel Foucault, “Man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.”  Adam Kirsch writes in The Atlantic (tinyurl.com/mum4z79b) that from Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: The end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and we should welcome it. While anti-humanists and transhumanists have opposite views on many issues, they agree that human beings should rightfully disappear. Transhumanists only worry that it might happen too soon, before we have invented our successor to “secure the future of the mind.”

Humanity’s purpose is “to transform the cosmic endowment—all the matter and energy in the accessible universe—into computronium.” That would correspond to Ray Kurzweil’s “singularity,” the ultimate destiny of the universe.

The anti- and transhumanists’ destruction of civilization,  renunciation of childbearing, and replacing humans with machines sound like a Great Reset. Is that where the biostate and the evolution of bioethics is leading?


AAPS Calendar

Feb 18, 2023. Board of Directors meeting, virtual.

Oct 26-28, 2023. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX. – https://aapsonline.org/oct-26-28-2023-aaps-80th-annual-meeting/


ACTION OF THE MONTH

Comment in support of the FTC proposal to ban non-compete clauses in employment contracts at https://bit.ly/ftcnoncompete before March 10.


Anti-Free Speech Law (AB 2098) Enjoined

The California law that threatens physician with delicensure for spreading COVID “misinformation” has been enjoined by Judge William B. Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Hoeg v. Newsom).

  At first the proposed AB 2098  was aimed at those who question the safety or efficacy of COVID vaccines in the media or social media, thereby creating public mistrust. AB 2098 also characterizes advocacy for use of repurposed FDA-approved drugs such as ivermectin as “COVID misinformation.” As passed, the law refers to one-on-one communication with patients.

The law bans doctors “from providing ‘treatment or advice’ ‘to a patient’ ‘related to COVID-19’ when that treatment or advice includes (1) ‘false information’ (2) ‘that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus’ (3) ‘contrary to the standard of care.’”

Judge Shubb notes that terms in AB2098 are unconstitutionally vague, putting physicians in the very difficult position of having to know what the “consensus” is at any given moment. Moreover, “the First Amendment applies not only to expression of majority opinions, but to minority views as well.” 

One issue is whether advice to patients is one of the seven categories of speech that the U.S. Supreme Court finds to be unprotected by the First Amendment.

Judge Shubb’s ruling prevents enforcement of AB 2098 pending resolution of the lawsuit. Judge Shubb’s ruling technically is limited only to “the plaintiffs, all persons represented by the plaintiffs, and members of the organizations that filed the lawsuits” (https://tinyurl.com/bdfyhnwd).

In a reply memorandum in the merged case Hoang v. Bonta, Attorneys Richard Jaffe and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., write: “Defendants are effectively admitting that physicians can be punished for speaking truth, as long as the government declines to recognize truth as truth” (tinyurl.com/2p99duwe).


Origin of Censorship in the U.S.

It formerly would have been unthinkable for the White House to send e-mails to social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter directing them to censor prominent public speakers such as Tucker Carlson and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Aspiring dictators have always relished public emergencies because they provide a rich opportunity for expanding their power, writes Peter McCullough, M.D. The seeds for the current blooming garden of unchecked federal power seem to have germinated in 2002 with the passage of the Homeland Security Act and the Homeland Security Council, an entity within the Executive Office of the President created by President Bush’s Executive Order 13228. Since 2002, more laws and administrative actions have enabled the state to deem you a “misinformation spreader” or “domestic terrorist” and censor and even detain you, to quell a purported emergency (https://tinyurl.com/y74xabcy).

Tip of the Month: Harassing state medical board complaints related to COVID-19 are continuing to plague good physicians, but nearly all of these complaints have been dismissed. The trick is to respond politely before the deadline, and the substance of the response appears to be less important than its timeliness. Extensions in the time to respond are freely granted if requested. 


Criminal Grand Jury on Vaccine Harm

With the approval of the Florida Supreme Court, Gov. Ron DeSantis is empaneling a grand jury to “investigate criminal or wrongful activity in Florida relating to the development, promotion, and distribution of vaccines purported to prevent COVID19 infection, symptoms, and transmission” (tinyurl.com/mr3s94uw).

The governor’s petition states: “The pharmaceutical industry has a notorious history of misleading the public for financial gain.” It includes a summary of the many times Pfizer, Moderna, the CDC, and high government officials falsely claimed that the vaccines would safely and effectively reduce the spread of the virus and that unvaccinated people would be responsible for continuing the pandemic if they didn’t take the jabs. It also lists studies showing a higher rate of myocarditis in young persons who received the injections.

“Ron DeSantis just became the world’s political leader of the Covid Accountability movement,” writes Jeff Childers in his Coffeeandcovid Substack. The grand jury can issue indictments of people and companies, issue criminal subpoenas, require witnesses to appear and testify under oath, publish a final report summarizing its evidence, and also recommend civil lawsuits.

Childers writes that while he is seeing people apologize for being wrong about COVID lockdowns or mandates, he has not yet seen anyone apologize for not trusting government during COVID (https://tinyurl.com/5bb8sd7e).


Possible Liability for Vaccine Administration?

According to a letter from the Australian Medical Professionals Society (tinyurl.com/yfv55yvx), “Administering of COVID-19 vaccination is likely not an indemnified action—this is notice of your obligations, rights, and potential risks.” A proposed medical indemnity scheme for health professionals administering the COVID-19 vaccines was never established. The letter refers to the decision of the High Court of Australia in Rogers v Whittaker 1992 (https://jade.io/article/67721), in which a patient was not told of the risk of sympathetic ophthalmia, as a precedent and standard for informed consent obligations. “A doctor has a duty to warn a patient of any material risk involved in a proposed treatment, or else risk tortious liability from patients,” writes AMPS. This might apply even if there is a body of expert opinion supporting nondisclosure. The letter recognizes threats of regulatory action “for anti-vaccination messages in professional health practice” or on social media, but states that under the Good Medical Practice Code of Conduct, doctors have a right not to provide or directly participate in treatments to which they conscientiously object. These liability and freedom issues also remain to be resolved in the U.S.


Mandate on Federal Contractors Blocked

A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold a decision that blocked the September 2021 Biden executive order requiring worker vaccination as a requirement for federal contracts. The issue could affect 20% of U.S. workers. Judge Kurt Engelhardt said a broad interpretation of the Procurement Act could give Biden “nearly unlimited authority to introduce requirements into federal contracts” (tinyurl.com/357z9vn9), such as requiring workers to reduce their BMI below a certain number.


Correspondence

Totalitarians Suppress Truth. The Marxist totalitarians in medicine have claimed a monopoly on truth, facts and science. As Dr. Aaron Kheriaty writes, quoting  Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce: “[I]f people in a communist society contradict communist doctrine, the party does not explain why they are wrong. The authorities simply dismiss dissenting opinions as instances of ‘bourgeois rationality’ or ‘false consciousness’.… Authorities assume that dissenting opinions must be motivated by

class interests (or racial characteristics, gender, or whatever), which dissidents are trying to defend” (tinyurl.com/4bf8reaf). This is precisely what we have seen with medical boards, specialty boards, hospitals, and certain medical associations. 

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Beyond Censorship. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Children’s Hospital Association ask him to investigate and prosecute individuals and entities that coordinate, provoke, and carry out bomb threats and threats of personal violence. The concern was about groups who re-posted information showing that Boston Children’s Hospital was lying when it claimed it was not doing “gender-affirming” surgery on minors. The online group was not responsible for the threat (there was no bomb) and even offered a reward to catch the guilty party. But the AMA and AAP want people who “provoke” disagreement with them to go to jail.

Douglas Farrago, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/56z5a36x


Psyops Research. Even though the testing of COVID vaccine products was highly abbreviated and did not meet regulatory norms for either vaccines or genetic therapies, the development and clinical testing of psyops and nudge messaging were carefully performed using a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial structure with short-term, three- and six-month follow-up. In  July 2020, Yale University initiated clinical trial #NCT04460703 to optimize means to psychologically manipulate people to overcome “vaccine hesitancy.” Twelve different messages were tried, including anger, embarrassment, guilt, trust in science, personal freedom, economic benefit, and “not bravery.” It was found that emphasizing vaccination as a pro-social action not only increased uptake but also increased willingness to pressure others to get the shot. These results were used to guide the federal U.S. (and global) propaganda campaign to promote compliance. We have been subjected to a focused and field-tested psyop.

Robert W. Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/v5sd78yn


At Odds with Reality. Recently, the idea has been spreading that  having the body of one sex but believing oneself to be of another is part of the normal human experience. Organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association have lent credence to the idea, stating that it is not a mental disorder because “many transgender people do not experience their gender as distressing or disabling.” However, while distress is an important treatment consideration, it is not a defining characteristic of medical pathology. Normal internal experience has traditionally been distinguished from abnormal by whether it is consistent with external reality. The mainstream psychiatric press is not asking  whether a person’s internal experience can be so far from reality as to justify “sex reassignment” surgery and still be called normal.

Boris Vatel, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/5424cj47


Rationing Promoted. The government is promoting migration to privately administered corporate Medicare Advantage plans. By design, these plans restrict patient access to “providers,” who then ration medical care and prescription drugs. During the 2022 enrollment period (10/15-12/7), MA plans touted dental, vision-care, and prescription drug benefits, and, depending on ZIP code, reductions in monthly Medicare deductions to boost one’s Social Security check. This is an appealing sales pitch, and MA now represents 55% of total Medicare spending. When asked, MA providers I’ve contacted will not say for what or how they are paid. They have a pre-paid care guarantee arrangement; patients have no say in it.  How can a rational consumer compare MA with generic Medicare benefits?

Lee Beecher, M.D., Maple Grove, MN


Rationing to Control Costs Is Theology That Failed. Cost control through “health maintenance,” “quality care,” and “accountability” is theological flim-flam. The word “incentive” has been corrupted to mean bribery. The hot dragon breath of HMOs and ACOs has burned up much of the money in medicine. Legalized corporate profiteering to ration care is not a moral public policy. Empowering American families is the only salvation to achieve affordable medical care. For the poor, ownership of resources is the path to a decent life free of poverty and dependency: a goal for all Americans.

Robert Geist, M.D., North Oaks, MN


Hippocrates Nullified. In the 21st century medicine appears to be preoccupied more with biopolitics and biopower exerted by the New World Order, and transgenderism and transhumanism, instead of healing the sick and treating the suffering.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/2p8tkvzp


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AAPS News January 2023 – FTX and the ‘Great Reset’

Volume 79, no. 1  January 2023

The world is experiencing many crises simultaneously: war, financial instability, civil unrest, looming shortages of food and energy, political chaos—and of course continued fear of COVID and predicted future pandemics, as well as of imminent climate apocalypse. To some, a grand “solution” appears to be inevitable: a “Great Reset” under a totalitarian technocratic global government, with a global central digital bank.

Are the crises somehow connected? The FTX scandal is possibly the thread that could unravel the whole scheme, writes Mathew Crawford (tinyurl.com/4xmphcsy).

The magnitude of the FTX scam and the depth of corruption, money laundering, and political influence peddling are beyond imagination, writes Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute (tinyurl.com/3n78xuvh). At rocket speed, FTX became the second-biggest crypto exchange on the planet, with billions in venture funding and a million customers.

The timing is notable. FTX was founded in 2019, just soon enough to enter the public realm concerning pandemic controls, and then it disappeared just following the 2022 midterm elections, over which its funding arm had a huge influence. Was it intended to have a short shelf life, transferring billions and manipulating public opinion during the Great Reset, then shutting down?

One might ask whether Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is just a geek with too much success too fast, engaged in entirely heartfelt philanthropy. The New York Times and the Washington Post ran articles portraying SBF as a “more-or-less honest businessman with a big heart who got tangled up in a bad situation” (https://tinyurl.com/bdewyra7). In an interview hosted by the NYT, which cost $2,400 to attend, he said he was “deeply sorry” [about stealing people’s life savings] (tinyurl.com/bd3cm6b7).

But the FTX-Alameda story isn’t solely the SBF story. The pool of players is far larger,  writes Crawford. The company’s philanthropy arm, which funded the pandemic planning industry, was a network of astonishing complexity.

The “Effective Altruism” (EA) arm funded media outlets such as ProPublica, Vox, Intercept, and Semafor, all of whom backed lockdowns and mandates.

SBF funded the TOGETHER trial, which purportedly found that ivermectin is ineffective in COVID. Principal investigator Ed Mills stated that FTX became involved only after results were published, according to Reuters Fact Check (https://tinyurl.com/59b9e5de). “But smart people will understand that this does not demonstrate a lack of influence,” states Crawford, as there are grants depending on results. The study used a nonstandard dosage of IVM and is still under scrutiny for a wide variety of statistical anomalies (tinyurl.com/2e929rdj).

The war against hydroxychloroquine needed a randomized controlled trial to show that it was ineffective and harmful. This was supplied by David Boulware—who headed up the ivermectin arm in the TOGETHER trial—and many others. Though the study was called negative by NEJM (tinyurl.com/5n7f3yvb), independent analysts come to the opposite conclusion, Crawford points out (also see AAPS News, June and July 2020).

One of the funders was software entrepreneur David Baszucki, who is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Roblox. With children out of school during the pandemic, this computer game saw its user base explode by tens of millions of users—including fully half the U.S. school children under 16 and three-quarters of all those ages 9 to 12. In March 2021, Roblox’s initial public offering had a $41 billion valuation—“an instant pandemic-pumped blowout valuation.”

“Video games are part of the concoction of digital drugs Yuval Noah Harari [of the World Economic Forum] suggests is the method for dealing with the useless people who might otherwise revolt against the status quo powers.” And Roblox team members, notes Crawford, have been the subject of an astounding number of pedophilia and child sexual abuse claims.

“The pandemic is the fog of war intended to create the opportunity and obscure the activities” involved in a “new global financial network and currency,” Crawford writes. FTX might have been a failed attempt to create this.

The endgame might be to create an intellectually (genetically) superior human race, in which the mass gathering of genetic data and gene-drive technology likely play a role.

“This plan connects a lot of stories, including the activities of Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein. It weaves through MIT Media Labs along the way, but goes to the heart of the powers who ultimately control the military-intelligence-banking complex—and that includes the pedophile elite,” Crawford states.

SBF is enmeshed in a very tangled web. Is it pure conspiracy theory? How would Epstein fit in? Aside from his sexcapades with underage girls, Epstein was a specialist in financial crime, Crawford notes, and “these two crimes go hand-in-hand most closely in a world in which politicians are hard to blackmail with a garden variety sex scandal.” Epstein seems to have touched all the currently important power circles. It may not be coincidence that his close friend Bill Clinton helped build the FTX brand recognition.

Most FTX political contributions went to Democrats; however, Kevin McCarthy allegedly used FTX cash to defeat conservative candidates (https://tinyurl.com/44wxmx5v).

It’s a huge thicket that might only be the tip of an iceberg. “The cover-ups have already begun,” Tucker writes.


COVID-19 and Global Debt

The global debt bubble began with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, writes financial analyst Edward Dowd. Central bank-enabled financial fraud long preceded COVID-19. In the form of a dystopian movie script concept, Dowd predicted the pandemic response with amazing accuracy, all predicated on the thesis that COVID was the cover for the end of the global debt bubble. Not one banker went to jail for the crimes that led to Great Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. This marked the rise of global central bank dominance, facilitated by unprecedented cooperation between the U.S. Federal Reserve, the EU Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan in the form of money printing and debt purchases. World governments went into deficit spending to make up for the catastrophic wealth destruction, job losses, and demand destruction. With the COVID-19 crisis,  central banks had an excuse to print huge amounts, increasing  M1 by 65% from 2019 to 2020. The U.S. government now commands 40% of GDP, up from low double digits 40 years ago (tinyurl.com/5n6a57ke). Digital ID would enable total control.


Pandemic Only the First Step in a Global Coup

In a presentation to Doctors for Covid Ethics International on Nov 22, 2022, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò stated that we must not stop with the pandemic but consider all events in their “full coherence and inter-connectness.”

The existence of a very powerful private organization with enormous economic means, which exercises undue power over world governments, is a “fact is of unprecedented gravity.” Klaus Schwab said: “In the fourth industrial revolution the winners will take it all.” The implication is that those who do not adapt will lose everything, including their freedom.

While the economic part cannot be disregarded, what is happening is not solely the result of profit-seeking. There are unstated purposes that stem from a “theological” vision—a rebellion against God, with the desire to destroy the created order, Viganò said. The operations of social engineering and mass manipulation have demonstrated that this crime was premeditated. In this war, there can be no neutrality (tinyurl.com/3a6w6mux).


Phyllis Ann Orient, R.I.P.

“Ann,” the telephone voice of AAPS for nearly 30 years, took her last breath on Dec 11, 2022, at age 97, surrounded by family at home. She worked in her daughter Jane’s office every day from 1981 until she was well into her 90s. She spoke with thousands of patients and physicians from across the land. Until recently, she proofread every issue of AAPS News. During her last hospital stay, she sang “America the Beautiful,” then alternated it with the Lord’s Prayer, as the shades were open to let in the sun. Her husband fought for our freedom in WWII, as she did all her life.


“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left…. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”

Senator Frank Church (1975)


 Trapped in a Virtual Reality Show 

In the 1998 movie The Truman Show, which prefigures today’s reality television, the unsuspecting star Truman Burbank is filmed  24/7 by hidden cameras. He lives in the town of Seehaven Island, a complete set built within a giant dome, populated by crew members and actors who highlight the product placements that generate revenue for the show. To prevent Truman from discovering the false reality, he is subjected to constant fear messages about the dangers of traveling.

There are clues, such as a spotlight falling out of the sky, and Truman eventually manages to escape.

Jim Quinn compares Truman’s situation to that of the world population during the pandemic (tinyurl.com/vekamdff). “The world seems to be scripted and directed by Machiavellian managers, working behind a dark shroud, representing an invisible governing authority, molding our minds, suggesting our ideas, dictating our tastes, and creating fear.” Their goal, he writes, is to destroy our civil society and common culture on behalf of globalists attempting to implement their Great Reset agenda.

Christof, the show’s creator, declares that Truman could discover the truth and leave at any time, while using every diabolical trick to keep that from ever happening, because his show generated revenues exceeding the GDP of a small country.

“The plot of the movie focuses on individuality versus conformity, consumerism, voyeurism, reality versus manipulation, false narratives, the truth about the American Dream, and the dangers of surveillance in a technologically advanced society.”

The ending of the show is a tribute to the strength of an individual. How can people today escape, as escape hatches are sealed off? Quinn discusses “Irish Democracy,” where a silent dogged resistance, marked by the withdrawal from society, belligerence to authority, and non-compliance with government dictates by millions of ordinary people would accomplish far more than rioting and armed revolution.

“Millions have already practiced a form of Irish Democracy by not masking, not social distancing, not getting jabbed, and taking control of their own health decisions.”

Quinn offers hope: “The beast isn’t as strong as it portrays. It’s broke and its empire of debt is crumbling.” If enough patriots walk away from this abnormal society, “our totalitarian Christofs”  could “wallow in their failure to control the truly awoken.”


Information Heals

For guidance through the cacophony of biased, deceitful, or unverified information, see neutralresearcher.substack.com.


AAPS Calendar

Jan 19, 2023. Marxism in Medicine Webinar.

Feb 18, 2023. Board of Directors meeting, virtual.

Oct 26-28, 2023. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX.


ACTION OF THE MONTH

Download our newly revised and updated COVID Patient Guide at aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/. This Guide has been requested by millions of patients in the U.S. and worldwide.


Do ESG Policies Violate the Law?

Companies that follow the goals of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria may be breaking antitrust, civil rights, and Employee Retirement Income Security Agency (ERISA) laws, according to former investment banker Kevin Stocklin. Hundreds of the world’s largest corporations have signed joint pledges  committing to “net zero” carbon goals. This might constitute “coordinated action” against other companies, in violation of antitrust laws, writes C. Boyden Gray (tinyurl.com/4tydvj9j). Preferences for certain racial or sexual minority groups are being challenged as discriminatory.

Fiduciary laws require corporate and public pension fund executives to act in the best interests of investors and shareholders. Currently, 24 states forbid ideological investing, including ESG, for their public pension funds (ibid.).

“It is inappropriate to require that candidates for promotion and tenure demonstrate their commitment to a political ideology. Forcing candidates to declare their support for DEI when many undoubtedly oppose it would compel dishonesty,” writes Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm (https://tinyurl.com/5c8p3dc9).

A coalition of 19 state attorneys general have launched a formal investigation into six major U.S. banks, citing legal concerns about banks’ ESG investing and their involvement with a UN alliance fighting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The banks “appear to be colluding with the UN to destroy American companies” and undermine the nation’s best interests, one of the AGs said. Another said the policies resulted in shipping jobs to China, as the regime there ensures low-cost energy from coal. Missouri AG Eric Schmitt said the Net-Zero Banking Alliance would keep Missouri farmers, oil leasing companies, and other vital businesses from getting loans. Pensioners’ retirements would be sacrificed to BlackRock’s climate agenda (https://tinyurl.com/5bxw2x75).


Worker’s Compensation for Vaccine Injuries?

Some lawyers think the employees who suffer an injury or disability after receiving a mandated COVID-19 shot might be able to collect benefits from worker’s compensation. While success is not assured, the process is easier, more rapid, and more likely to succeed than the government’s PREP system, and does not preclude receiving benefits from another source. The “no-fault” system precludes blaming government compulsion.

 “The more people file claims…, the more employers—and their insurers—may feel pressure to reconsider employer-mandated vaccines in the future, attorneys suggest (https://tinyurl.com/3ej4zdv9). 

Tip of the Month: The FDA wrongly disparages ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, despite being approved as safe for decades, but meanwhile it just bypassed physicians by authorizing pharmacists to sell an abortion drug directly to the public. Under new rules released by the FDA the first week in January, the abortion medication mifepristone may be sold directly by pharmacies that sign up for this program, without a physician ever evaluating or advising the patient. States may prohibit this, and some do. But California and New York, which just led the country in having the biggest population decreases of the past year according to the Census, welcome this new rule to bypass physicians.


ESG Demands for Patients

Mass General Brigham has enacted a Patient Code of Conduct, which it claims is similar to that of many healthcare systems. It prohibits “offensive comments about others’ race, accent, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or other personal traits” and invites anyone who witnesses such behavior to report it. Violators may be “asked” to make other arrangements for care (https://tinyurl.com/2hnt762d). Officials refused to say whether “mis-gendering” would count as a violation (tinyurl.com/3v4u8eb7).


Double Standard for Disparities?

While discriminating against non-“Woke” persons, even to the extent of denying treatment, may be required, permitting patients to purchase better care is “ethically indefensible,” argue two young physicians in AMA Journal of Ethics. “To allow VIP health care to exist condones the notion that some people—namely, wealthy White people—deserve more care sooner and that their well-being matters more” (https://tinyurl.com/yc5hchev).


FDA Sued over Abortion Pill

Four physicians, along with the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American College of Pediatricians, and the Christian Medical & Dental Association, filed suit against the FDA over the approval of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone (Mifeprex™). Attorney Julie Marie Blake stated that FDA “has failed to protect the safety of women and girls by exposing them to drugs that are dangerous and never properly studied for safety, and that never, under the law, were allowed to be approved in the first place” (https://tinyurl.com/35ezmnuw).

Plaintiffs ask that the Court issue a preliminary and permanent injunction ordering the drug to be removed from the market.  The Complaint alleges that FDA “eliminated the few safeguards it initially established to protect women and girls who go through the chemical abortion drug regimen.” It “never required an assessment that evaluated the safety and effectiveness of chemical abortion drugs on pregnant girls under 18 years of age” even though “endocrine disruptors such as mifepristone could have significant impacts on an adolescent girl’s developing body and reproductive system.” It also eliminated the requirement to report nonfatal adverse effects, allowed mail-order prescriptions despite express prohibition under federal law, and increased permitted gestational age, among other problems (https://tinyurl.com/366vrsen).


Rebuilding Jefferson’s ‘Wall of Separation’

Leftists agitating against Nativity scenes or prayer at a football game completely misinterpret a sentence fragment from a letter by Thomas Jefferson referring to a “wall of separation between the church and state.” The letter was in response to a letter from Baptists concerning the 150 years of persecution they had suffered in both New England and southern colonies. They wrote: “What religious privileges we enjoy (as a minor part of the State) we enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights.” Jefferson’s “wall” was to protect people of faith from government, not the other way around  (https://tinyurl.com/26szn5ua).


Correspondence

Certification in Transgender Treatment. At age 24, Prisha Mosley is telling her story about the “gender transition” therapy she was subjected to, with testosterone therapy at age 17 and bilateral mastectomy at age 18. She had been sexually assaulted and had several mental health problems including anorexia. She discovered transgenderism on line, and as soon as she mentioned it, a therapist rushed her into “gender affirming” treatment. Her parents were told that she would die without it (https://tinyurl.com/26rdam6j). There is an organization that “certifies” “providers” in various specialties to perform such abuse and mutilation (wpath.org/gei). The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) cites it in its section on “Treatment of Transgender Youth” on its website aap.org.

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Hyperaggressive AAP Approach Not Supported. In Sweden, the diagnosis of gender dysphoria has increased 20-fold over the past 10 years in persons under the age of 20. The policy of “watchful waiting” in many Western nations contrasts sharply with the “affirmation and action” policy of the AAP. Four of the six members of AAP’s LGBT Health & Wellness Committee are actively working in and promoting gender-affirming therapies, an obvious conflict of interest. Their policy paper fails to mention that the dysphoria may be transitory, neglects to cite outcomes literature, and misrepresents the contents of some citations.

Ken Fisher, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/2p9vvjrz


‘I Can’t Recall.’ In a 7-hour deposition by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who once said “I am the science,” could recall hardly anything about his COVID-19 response or social media censorship of opposing views.

Paul Alexander, Ph.D.,  https://tinyurl.com/mvydu6ba


Who Is Telling the Truth? Seeing the stark opposing positions between left and right on almost every issue, a person might ask, how can one determine which position is right, and which one might not only be wrong, but a lie? The intolerance of leftists reveals their mendacious mindset—and the true believer’s inability to consider evidence proving their ideas wrong. Dennis Prager writes: “With rare exceptions, the party that calls for censorship is lying. People who tell the truth can deal with dissent…. In fact, truth-tellers welcome debate.” If correct, this means the Left is virtually always lying (tinyurl.com/5778h2j9).

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


Extreme Politicization of Science. Coronadoom research has reached new heights of asininity. Exhibit 1: A paper in The Lancet: Regional Health claims to show that “exposure to conservatism,” reflected in voting records of members of Congress, correlated with COVID mortality rates (tinyurl.com/4ubcp47v). Exhibit 2: A paper in Am J Med claims to show that vaccine hesitancy increases the risk of involvement in a traffic crash. Authors conclude that “a distrust of government or belief in freedom…contributes to both vaccination preferences and increased traffic risks” (https://tinyurl.com/yp74m466).

William Briggs, Ph.D., www.wmbriggs.com/post/44227/


Why Do Doctors Push Mass Vaccination? In early 2021, the HHS/CDC $13 billion “COVID-19 Community Corps” made undisclosed individual payments to hundreds of organizations, including AMA, AAFP, ACOG, AAP, and AMSA. Investigation will probably show a temporal link to vaccine-promoting activities. Might this explain the AMA’s 2021 campaign to “abolish” the use of ivermectin? Or promoting vaccines for children and pregnant women without safety trials?

Peter A. McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., tinyurl.com/2cy7cxfe


‘We Own the Science.’ UN communications representative Melissa Fleming, who spoke on a World Economic Forum disinformation panel on Sept 28, 2022, stated that the UN had partnered with big-tech search platforms such as Google to manipulate search results, e.g., on climate change and COVID-19. The UN is in the process of setting up the tools to censor ALL misinformation that the UN deems unhelpful for a “stable, peaceful, harmonious and UNITED world.”

Robert W. Malone, M.D.,  https://tinyurl.com/5zdejm8b


Why It Keeps Happening. Everything that’s happened and is happening becomes much simpler and it all makes sense, only when you force yourself to think the impossible. If you experimentally adopt the position that our government is actively working to harm us, to dismantle modern society and enslave all people in a digitally controlled totalitarian world, it all fits. Nothing is surplus. Many have asked why people didn’t resist tyrants in the past. Partly it is fear. But it’s more than that. It’s that normal people, like you and me, simply cannot imagine being so evil. Most people are good. Few are truly terrifyingly horrible. But some are. It’s the inability to believe it’s happening that really stopped people objecting when they should, when the evidence was unmistakable but had not yet quite reached their door, their family. But now they are coming for you and your children.

Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/2a8rux7n


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AAPS News December 2022 – A Trans World

Volume 78, no. 12

“Orwellian” is an apt term to describe the total surveillance in our world. But the radical transformation from traditional culture and morality (“Victorianism”) to modernism began decades before Orwell. The starkest metaphor appeared in 1915 in one of the seminal works of the 20th century and Existentialism, Franz Kafka’s novella, “The Metamorphosis” (Die Verwandlung).

The unforgettable opening sentence is: “Gregor Samsa awakened one morning from troubled dreams to find himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic cockroach (Ungeziefer).

Kafka does not suggest how or why this could have happened. The absurdity is accepted matter-of-factly, as its effects are explored. Gregor gets a different perspective as he creeps along the ceiling upside down, and he can eat only spoiled food.

A more dramatic example of being trapped in the wrong body cannot be imagined. Gregor tries to hold on to aspects of his humanity as he adapts to his new form, and attempts to overcome alienation from his family, despite their “transphobia.”

Aside from the rare case of lycanthropy, in which people believe themselves to be animals (though not repulsive vermin),  today’s epidemic of “wrong” bodies concerns human bodies of the “wrong” gender. This begs the question of what a human being “is” and how and why its essence gets attached to a body. It seems to be a radical extension of Cartesian mind-body dualism. How does science deal with this non-material entity? We dare not question how people, even babes in the womb, just “know.”

Transhumanism

Human beings have inherently no greater dignity than vermin in the view of New World Order (NWO) architects, and in fact may be considered a plague on the Planet.

“A systemic transformation of the world,” said Klaus Schwab (tinyurl.com/34wz4478, AAPS News, April 2021), will lead us to a fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological identities” (tinyurl.com/3wh8bu63). We will use nanotechnology and a direct brain-computer interface to upgrade Homo sapiens into beings who are much more different from us than we are from animals—into gods. We will replace natural selection with intelligent design—by us, explains Yuval Noah Harari, chief advisor to the World Economic Forum (tinyurl.com/yw5sdnrh).


Biopolitics and Biopower

Coined in 1905 by Rudolf Kjellén, who viewed the state as a quasi-biological organism, a “super-individual creature,” the term biopolitics was used by certain Nazis to refer to their own organic theory of the state and its people, as well as to the racist and eugenicist political program they were developing. It signifies the penetration of the political into human biology, enabling more refined and precise control over the living bodies and populations.

People are blindly accepting a biopolitical surveillance regime, in which “wearables” even monitor our emotions, for the prospect of achieving public health or “equity”—safetyism and wokeism (https://tinyurl.com/bdnh6ck2).

The Transgender Agenda

So entrenched is transgenderism in established medicine that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would not even allow the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine to set up an information booth at its annual conference. SEGM’s members object to the widespread use of “affirmative care” protocols, which frequently send young people along a path of rapid “transition” via hormone treatments and surgery (https://tinyurl.com/4ad323yn).

To help achieve the “Triple Aim” for sexual and gender minorities (SGMs), Michael Liu et al. of Harvard advocate requiring collection of SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) data in electronic records (NEJM 7/28/22). How many options would be needed? The application for San Francisco’s transgender guaranteed income suggests 97 gender options (omnigender, xenogender, waria, neutrois, …) and 19 sexual orientations (https://tinyurl.com/bddmvran).

Transgenderism is “a new ideology that bears all the force of an evangelizing religion, backed by activist billionaires, which has captured all the high ground in our culture,” writes John Zmirak. “We must think through clearly, even ruthlessly, the full implications of the dogmas taught by the transgenderist cult, which public school teachers are preaching to our children—and Democrats are enshrining into law” (https://tinyurl.com/3nhvus83).

  An addition to the LGBTQ++ orientations, “minor-attracted person” (pedophile), is not only gaining prominence, but persons calling attention to it might be punished, as by being sued into bankruptcy, warns Tucker Carlson (https://tinyurl.com/9y736xe2).

NWO globalists are not concerned about the unhappiness of a few transgendered people. The LGBTQ++ movement helps prevent reproduction, and also undermines the traditional structure of society. It increases the number of souls “lost in the cosmos,” as Walker Percy might say. Perhaps most importantly, by requiring people to assent to and ultimately believe that one sex can be transitioned into another, they will accept any absurdity. The result is a society that is both Orwellian and Kafkaesque.

As O’Brien said in 1984, “In our world…we shall destroy—everything…. We have cut the links between child and parent…, man and woman…. There will be no art, no literature, no science.”


Perspective: Typhus and the Holocaust

In trying to understand the “good German,” Filipe Rafaeli considers how the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto managed to curb a massive typhus epidemic, which killed 10%–40% of its victims (tinyurl.com/2y94bk5b). The established scientific consensus was that “the Jews are overwhelmingly the carriers and disseminators of typhus infection.” The epidemic wall of the ghetto Seuchensperrgebiet (restricted area, lockdown) was built to contain “these parasites.” Hans Frank, one of the highest authorities of the General Government, “following science,” stated that the murder of 3 million Jews in Poland “was unavoidable for reasons of public health.”

Some say that censorship, propaganda, and public health authorities taking action believed to be based on scientific consensus could lead the population, in fear of a disease, even to  approve of a Holocaust. Rafaeli writes that this starts from a wrong assumption: that the “well-educated German people were stupid enough to believe the gross lie that Jews were guilty of the typhus pandemic.”

A mere dictatorship is not enough, he states, to attain the complicity of almost a whole society. “It needs a totalitarian state where the population is in harmony with the dictatorial government. It needs a people that collaborates by denouncing, helping, and not caring about the evil in front of them.” In such a state, evil is declared to be good.

Rafaeli understood the “good German” when reading the current story of a boy in Cyprus who was denied life-saving heart surgery in Germany, the UK, and Israel because his parents were unvaccinated against  COVID. What is the difference between the doctors in those hospitals and those who applauded Dr. Jost Walbaum? What they have in common, Rafaeli states, is contempt for the lives of others (tinyurl.com/ybvtp5u2).


‘Social Justice’ over Science

The oath written by the University of Minnesota medical school class of 2026 (https://tinyurl.com/3dzvj2mj), which was quickly removed from the website, reads:

We commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the healthcare system. We recognize inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism, and all forms of oppression…. [W]e commit to promoting a culture of anti-racism, listening, and amplifying voices for positive change. We pledge to honor all Indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine. Knowing that health is intimately connected to our environment, we commit to healing our planet and communities.

Quoting  an article by OutKick, Luke Rexing writes: “In what is supposed to be a factual, scientific, evidence-based profession with a long-standing code of ethics, wokeness is winning.” He adds that this ideology “has seeped into every crack of existence.” 


“Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property.”

Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto


‘Transforming the Path to Health Equity’

The 2021-2022 annual report in Columbia Medicine details  efforts to lead the transformation of medical education with “anti-racist curriculum development” and work toward “meaningful change that will result in a health care system free of disparities.”  Grant-writing assistance is provided to health equity scholars who will advance the investigation of health disparities, such as the disproportionate impact of chronic disease in “communities of color.” The death of George Floyd spurred a systemic effect by medical schools to create a transformative, ongoing anti-racism strategy. First, people need to understand what “anti-racist” means; then learning objectives need to be included, “because if something isn’t assessed, then it’s not taken seriously.”


Transforming (Destroying) Education & Science

“The publication of incorrect knowledge—including potentially entire sub-branches of scientific literature, and including fabricated results—can become accepted through the peer-reviewed system of publication, making it economically harder to unwind and correct the direction of science,” writes Mathew Crawford. The well is poisoned early: “Schools are a breeding ground for cheaters,” and cheating has become a “controlled feedback loop.” The method results in “brainwashing specialists into a particular form of nihilism.” The use of artificial intelligence in machine-learning algorithms (e.g., by Google) has driven the situation “from catastrophic to worse.” Their use in such a flawed educational system is “a recipe for the totalitarian destruction of science” (https://tinyurl.com/3xtju8ta).


War without End

Progressives never say where they want to go, observes Anthony Esolen. Progress implies a destination, where one can find rest and peace once one arrives—which implies the existence of a natural human order. Progressives do not believe in a natural order, and are disturbers of the peace. Evidence of their unrest abounds. Normal people do not despise their ancestors, nor do they wish that there were one sex, or 30, or none. And “normal people accept a statute of limitations when it comes to past sins, and do not expect human purity around the corner.”

Rejecting nature, the progressive reveres the state-made-god, to which he cedes an ever more intrusive central control over as many features of human life as possible. “Worry is the blood of the state’s heart.” Peace and tranquility are the enemy (Chronicles 3/1/22, https://tinyurl.com/mrx44wwd).


AAPS Calendar

Jan 19, 2023. Marxism in Medicine Webinar.

Feb 18, 2023. Board of Directors meeting, virtual.

Oct 26-28, 2023. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX.


ACTION OF THE MONTH

Most of the talks from the 79th annual meeting are available at our Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/AAPS. Click the subscribe button to assure you are notified of new videos.


Eugenics: Falling and Rising Again?

California is poised to approve up to $25,000 for persons who were forcibly sterilized without adequate informed consent because the state decided they were unfit to have children. California was responsible for about one-third of 60,000 such sterilization performed in the U.S. The state has set aside $7.5 million for the reparations program for the few hundred persons still living.

The promise of eugenics when it started around 1909 was that the state could do away with prisons, hospitals, asylums, and orphanages because after a while people who were in them just wouldn’t be born. California’s law was so prominent that it inspired similar practices in Nazi Germany (tinyurl.com/59jjcy39).

Most of the Nazi physicians who helped to legitimate and implement “racial hygiene” policies were not called to account, and some were able to continue their careers. Sterilization remained part of public policy in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia into the 1970s (NEJM 7/29/2004).

Eugenics was “one of the defining ideas of the 20th century,” writes Adam Rutherford of University College London. It was a political creed that emanated from “racist, classist, ableist” beliefs.  In 1938, J.B.S. Haldane wrote, “I do not believe that our present knowledge of human heredity justifies such steps” as taken in the U.S. and Nazi Germany. Now, “we strive to change the culture of science to be more inclusive.” Also, with precision gene editing, we have “unprecedented possibilities for the control of human biology” (Science 9/24/21). What will define the 21st century?


Tavistock Centre Closing

While American doctors are advertising gender-affirming surgery for children on TikTok, Britain’s National Health Service announced that it was closing down the Gender and Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock Clinic in London, which  has seen thousands of British children for gender dysphoria. Previously, whistleblowers, a detransitioned woman, psychologists, and parents had raised concerns. The National Institute for Care and Excellence (NICE) found that the link between transitioning and improved psychological function was, in fact, very weak  (https://tinyurl.com/5n8nmtsf). The coup de grâce was a report by pediatrician Hilary Cass.

 Dr. Cass found that GIDS was administering potentially life-changing treatments to often vulnerable children, sometimes involving drugs whose effects it did not understand and often without adequate record-keeping to track the welfare of those children.  Puberty-blocking drugs, rather than buying time to make a decision about gender, might actually disrupt the decision-making process, she wrote. Moreover, “brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by puberty blockers, which could have significant impact on the ability to make complex risk-laden decisions, as well as possible longer-term neuropsychological consequences. To date, there has been very limited research on the short-, medium- or longer-term impact of puberty blockers on neurocognitive development” (https://tinyurl.com/5hjrpmu9).

The clinic now faces a class action suit involving more than 1,000 individuals and families. The common theme in the stories told by regretful young people is contempt for the medical “professionals” in the field of gender transition, who hurried them along without informing them of risks (tinyurl.com/ye243nwv). 


FDA Sued for Interference in Medicine

Three physicians, Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Robert Apter, and Dr. Mary Bowden, have sued the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Health and Human Services for interference with physicians’ ability to treat COVID-19. Apter v. HHS highlights the FDA’s disparaging, misleading statements to many influential organizations about ivermectin.

The main point of the case is not that ivermectin could have saved millions of lives, but that the FDA broke with both law and tradition by interfering with the practice of medicine, i.e., with the authority to prescribe drugs approved for human use for an “off-label” indication (https://tinyurl.com/3y9x4ubd). In its amicus brief, AAPS writes: “Defendant FDA has improperly exploited misunderstandings about the legality and prevalence of off-label uses of medication, in order to mislead courts, state medical boards, and the public into thinking there is anything improper about off-label prescribing” (https://tinyurl.com/28ukattt).

“In ruling against patients seeking access to ivermectin to treat Covid-19, as recommended by their physicians, multiple courts have relied on the misinformation and improper interference by the FDA as a basis for denying access now” (ibid.).


Pfizer Contract with EU Countries

From the 25-page contract that Pfizer has with Slovenia, and presumably other EU countries: “The…State further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known.” Pfizer also states that vaccines are under rapid development, and that the injections will not be the same as those used in the clinical trials. The contract protects Pfizer from any claim of adverse effects  (https://tinyurl.com/5n8xptrv).


Private Censorship

Two complaints by homosexuals about a cartoon in The European Conservative led a newsstand to ban the publication permanently. The cartoon mocked schools’ enforced indoctrination of young children in LGBTQ++ ideology.

“The main threat of censorship comes nowadays not from governments,” writes Theodore Dalrymple, “but from an alliance, or at least a synergy, of pressure groups and unscrupulous and pusillanimous corporations.”

“Freedom is not merely a matter of legal or constitutional arrangements, but a habit of the heart…. Freedom cannot long survive perpetual, chronic, and largely bogus outrage” (https://tinyurl.com/yejyx3zv).


Tip of the Month:

Beware of COVID Scapegoating. Although AAPS physicians were heroically on the front lines saving hundreds of thousands of lives during COVID, beware of some isolated scapegoating attempts by disgruntled patients’ families who lost relatives due to hospital protocols. Private physicians, of course, should not be blamed for the denial of care by a hospital. Powerful hospital systems are asserting in court that they determine the standard of care. They should take full responsibility for the COVID deaths they caused with their harmful protocols. Fortunately, most state medical boards recognize that the hospital deaths from COVID were not due to care by private physicians.


Correspondence

Former Trans Teen Calls out ‘Despicable’ AAP, AMA. In a letter of intent to sue Kaiser Permanente, Chloe Cole accuses the medical groups who performed, supervised, or advised transgender hormone therapy and surgery for her when she was between 13 and 17 years old of gross negligence. Cole recently formed Detrans United, to support “detransitioners,” and sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland denouncing the AAP, the AMA, and the Children’s Hospital Association for endorsing “gender-affirming care.” Harmeet Dhillon, CEO of the Center for American Liberty, stated: “Through this legal action, the ‘professionals’ involved will be held accountable for their despicable plot to mutilate children and financially benefit from it…. We will break the cycle of them breaking our children before it’s too late.” Everything, including bilateral mastectomy, was covered by insurance, as required by California law. With SB 107, California has become a transgender sanctuary state. Parents who bring their children to California for gender-affirming care are sheltered from prosecution for child abuse in other states (https://tinyurl.com/rhpr6k3c).

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Ideology First. “Trust the experts” is the refrain every time elected officials question life-altering “gender-affirming” treatments in children. But Manhattan Institute scholar Leor Sapir examined the transgender care guidelines released by prominent medical associations, including the AAP, and supportive statements from the AMA. None had done systematic reviews of the evidence, and they misrepresented the research.  Researchers in Europe contradict their conclusions, and instead find that “there is no evidence that the benefits of hormones for treating gender-related distress in youth outweighs [sic] the risks.” Sweden, Finland, and the UK have all taken steps to limit such treatments.

 Stanley Goldfarb, M.D., Do No Harm, tinyurl.com/2s4d99dr


Mexicans, Brazilians Defend Democracy. Whoever would’ve thought that our southern neighbors have more patriotism and guts than Americans, as they hold massive protests over election fraud. They have national identity, common religion, and a shared nationality. We have multiculturalism. Up to 500,000 Mexicans in 15 cities were in the streets to protest far-left President López Obrador’s plan to eliminate the National Electoral Institute (INE) and state-based electoral authorities and possibly such safeguards as Voter ID (https://tinyurl.com/mtuxr7rz). Those pushing for the New World Order plan to control elections.

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


The Source of Anti-Semitism, Transhumanism, and More. As I learned while teaching in Romania, one of the first things Communists do to take over a country is bomb their historic statues and museums and invent a new “history,” then change their language using equivocal terms (same term, but different meaning). We need to study connections between historical disruptors/agendas and today’s. Transhumanism is the latest –ism grounded in ancient gnosticism. The global gurus have been trying to teach us for the last few decades how we can transfer our “brains” into computers to get rid of our evil material bodies and become purely “spiritual.” Of course, as such, we will be androgenous (transgender). The Law of Moses was a dangerous threat to the gnostics of the time, so Jews were painted as a scourge against humanity. Gnosticism is also the ancient foundation for abortion, population control, bioethics, and eugenics. As a professor I learned early on the immense influence gnosticism has today on our students and on almost every area of the humanities in the academy and every facet of our daily living. Yet it is not identified (https://tinyurl.com/y484hws4).

Dianne N. Irving, Ph.D.


Equality through Excellence. An 80-year history of the Dept. of Urology at the Univ. of Minn. that I edited recounts the  openness to innovation challenging conventional wisdom that attracted a bevy of bright young residents beginning in the 1970s—one called it a “magic moment.” Their world-class accomplishments resulted from merit in a place requiring excellence, not “equity.” A place not burdened by bogus racial hate, memory holes, and bogus “equity” sloganeering. All faculty and students aimed to best serve each patient equally well.

Robert W. Geist, M.D., North Oaks, MN


The Digital Gulag. The global vaccine passport, approved by the G20, ostensibly for facilitating international travel and tourism, uses technology easily adaptable for other purposes, such as carbon tracking or eventual banishment of undesirables from society. It’s not about health, but about total control.

Robert Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/2p9c59md


Transcommunism Is Coming. Klaus Schwab saw in the COVID crisis and the reactions to it not death, economic misery, and an attack on fundamental human rights, but rather a “narrow window of opportunity” to roll out the scenarios that have been ready since a few years ago—such as digital ID and central bank currency. “You will own nothing.” There is even a Transcommunist flag and LGBT Pride pin.

Alain Grootaers,  https://tinyurl.com/ycxbdmwr




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AAPS News October 2022 – Criminalizing Dissent

Volume 78, no. 10  October 2022

President Biden famously said: “For those brave right-wing Americans…if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something little more than a gun” (https://tinyurl.com/58mmvn5j). A gun is also of no use against SWAT teams in riot gear, search warrants, subpoenas, indictments, prison terms, and crushing fines.

  At present, the FBI is concentrating on those who question the 2020 election results or who might strongly and effectively support pro-Trump or anti-leftwing candidates in future elections.

In what Tucker Carlson called a “full-scale purge” of Trump supporters, about 50 very broad search warrants and/or subpoenas from the “Capitol Siege” section of the Department of Justice, demanding communications relating to election irregularities, were served. Such activities are, we thought, protected by the First Amendment (https://tinyurl.com/2jr3r2ye).

But it’s not just about electoral politics, and it’s not new. Melania Trump’s wardrobe was searched for documents. Decades ago, agents searched shoeboxes in a physician’s closet, looking for medical records in a failed attempt to prove Medicaid fraud (AAPS News, June and November 1990, August 1992). Agents pointed a gun at an innocent physician’s 9-year-old son, while searching his home for records (AAPS News, July 1997).

Mike Lindell of MyPillow, prominent in alleging election fraud, had his cell phone seized, keeping him from conducting his business. Two top Trump advisors also had their phones seized, according to Judicial Watch. Many physicians have had their computers and patient records seized in the War on Drugs.

It’s forever war: on healthcare fraud, on drugs, on terrorism,  on a virus, on “climate change,” on “misinformation,” on “white supremacy,” on “extremism.” An FBI whistleblower stated that agents are now pressured to label cases as “domestic violent extremism.” The increasing cases being identified throughout the country are all connected to Jan 6 (tinyurl.com/4m7wpnub).

When Did It Begin?

Some say it started in 2001 with 9/11. A quantum leap in federal power and surveillance resulted when the PATRIOT Act quickly emerged from somewhere full-grown. Americans were  reminded of the horror, again, in the 21st anniversary memorial.

Is the 9/11 Narrative a test of Americans’ credulity? We repeatedly see planes crashing into WTC-1 and WTC-2, but not the  late-afternoon collapse of WTC-7, purportedly due to a few office fires. Yet an enormous recent fire in China failed to bring down a 42-story skyscraper (https://tinyurl.com/yhpzjk6h); indeed, WTC-7 is the only skyscraper ever collapsed by fire.

There are other questions, and conspiracy theories. Recall the original conspiracy theory about the assassination of President Kennedy: that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, did not kill JFK. A single accomplice creates a conspiracy. Did Osama bin Laden, acting alone, orchestrate 9/11 from a hospital bed in Pakistan (https://tinyurl.com/5dwy4fa3)?

If the official Narrative is true despite many contradictions and the rapid destruction of evidence, it raises serious doubts about the capability of U.S. F-15 and F-16 air defenses.

To the regime, the events of Jan 6 are comparable to those of 9/11, except that the former was an “inside job” involving many co-conspirators who are still being tracked down. One woman was awakened by three armed FBI agents the day after Biden’s anti-MAGA speech, on the basis of a false anonymous tip that she had been at the Capitol on Jan 6 (tinyurl.com/36dmb25v).

Apocalyptic, “existential” threats, to Americans emotionally primed by the image of the rapid destruction of two of the safest structures in the world, have much of the population in a state of chronic terror, longing for government-ensured safety. Perhaps that accounts for the results of a Rasmussen poll. Asked about Biden’s assertion that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” 48% of likely voters agree, including 36% who strongly agree. Only 47% disagree, with 39% disagreeing strongly, reports Paul Craig Roberts (https://tinyurl.com/576xf6dj).

The COVID-19 Test

COVID-19 measures are the test for compliance and “social responsibility,” which billions of people passed, states Mridul Kaushik, mission director for the Smart Cities Mission of the World Economic Forum. Similar measures are being extrapolated into WEF “climate change” protocols (tinyurl.com/39the9zm).  People will only be able to rent, not own, what the system permits—no cash. Deprivation of access to food and energy could suppress dissent with no need for prosecution (and due process).

As EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said prior to the election of Giorgia Meloni as prime minister of Italy, “We will see the results of the vote in Italy. If things go in a difficult direction, we have tools” (https://tinyurl.com/bdzbfk92).

Germany is leading the way. Dissenters from COVID measures are not just being stigmatized and demonized, but criminalized as dangerous “extremists,” who are “anti-democratic and/or delegitimizing the state in a way that endangers security.” For example, they protest non-violently, or speak out against, or criticize, or satirize the global ideology called the “New Normal” (https://tinyurl.com/ydss42sz).


Flashback

The COVID-19 pandemic response is eerily similar to the response to smallpox 135 years ago, when vaccination mandates were accompanied by increasingly harsh punitive measures, writes Steve Kirsch. “The solution then was not trying to convince decision makers using rational scientific arguments. It was a mass public protest that resulted in the abandonment of what the ‘experts’ were saying to do and adoption of new methods that worked that were opposed by the medical community” (https://tinyurl.com/mr2vtx9m). Vaccination still got the credit.

One example: By the end of 1868, more than 95% of the inhabitants of Chicago had been vaccinated. After the Great Fire of 1871, vaccination was made a condition of receiving relief supplies. A devastating smallpox epidemic hit in 1872. More than 2,000 persons contracted smallpox, of whom more than 25% died, with the fatality rate among children under 5 being the highest ever recorded (https://tinyurl.com/yc2vw4s5).


Vaccination Updates

Denmark Bans COVID Jab under Age 50. The Danish Health Authority, after previously banning COVID-19 shots for nearly everyone under age 18, has expanded the prohibition to age 50, unless patients are at “higher risk of becoming severely infected.” It said that “the purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with COVID-19,” and that there is already good immunity in the population (https://tinyurl.com/2txwembz).

EU May Mandate Shots. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen stated that we have a horrible pandemic, and life-saving vaccines, but they are not being used adequately everywhere. About one-third of the European population is not vaccinated. Discussion is needed about making  vaccination mandatory (https://tinyurl.com/4j9xwjv6).

Excess Mortality. The European country with the second highest vaccination rate (Portugal) has the highest excess mortality, and the country with the lowest vaccination rate (Bulgaria) has the lowest excess mortality, but “correlation does not prove causality,” and “there’s nothing to see here,” says Mark Steyn (https://tinyurl.com/5axe6fzh).

Death Rate Higher in Vaccinated. Based on data from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), Dr. Marian Laderoute calculated that mortality from both COVID-19 and other causes was higher in vaccinated persons (2.16 times and 11.41 times as high, respectively, in December 2021). She states that rescinding the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) in May 2021 would have prevented nearly 400,000 deaths from all causes between Jun 1, 2021, and May 31, 2022 (https://tinyurl.com/mpnnr4y4).

Pregnancy Outcomes. In the thousands of pages of Pfizer documents that a court has ordered released each month, it appears that the outcome was known in only 32 of the 270 pregnancies that occurred in vaccinated women. Only one normal outcome was reported. Most of the fetuses or newborns died, writes Dr. Pierre Kory (https://tinyurl.com/ysaxrjv5).


“[T]he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Hermann Goering


Threats to the State

Surveillance of “Extremists.” The Office for the Protection of  the Constitution, the German domestic intelligence agency, set  up a new department specifically tasked with handling cases (such as coronavirus deniers) that “seek to delegitimize the state,” since they do not fit the mold posed by the usual, politically driven groups, including Islamic extremists. Psychologist and conspiracy expert Pia Lamberty said: “The danger of Querdenken [lateral thinking]” she said, “has long been underestimated.” When “deniers” drew 40,000 protesters to Berlin, a small number managed to jump police lines and climb Parliament’s outside stairs. This was characterized as an “attack on the heart of democracy” (NY Times 2/28/21, tinyurl.com/msfnwbxu).

California Senator Richard Pan. “These [anti-vaccine] extremists have not yet been held accountable, so they continue to escalate violence against the body public…. We must now summon the political will to demand that domestic terrorists face consequences for their words and actions. Our democracy and our lives depend on it…. They’ve been building alliances with white supremacists, conspiracy theorists and [others] on the far right” (Wash Post 2/28/21, https://tinyurl.com/4jhhkhhz).

Peter Hotez. “The [UN] and…governments must take direct, even confrontational, approaches…, and move to dismantle anti-vaccine groups…. Efforts…should include experts who have tackled complex global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear armament, because anti-science is now approaching similar levels of peril” (Nature 4/27/21, tinyurl.com/ya6bbe24).

Climate Police. The Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is building a new facility in Winnipeg that will house a firearms armory, interrogation rooms, biological labs, and intelligence facilities. The Impact Assessment Act (IAA), which was quietly passed in the final days of Trudeau’s majority government, empowers agents of the Ministry of Climate Change to enter premises without a warrant to “verify compliance or prevent non-compliance with [the Act].” Climate Police may also prohibit access to the location entirely. Opponents say this has the potential to cripple the food supply (tinyurl.com/nhzvkv3).

Power Shift to NGOs. An incestuous network of elites was able to overwhelm governments and take control of the global COVID response, without accountability. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the most powerful organization, and Gates is also involved in Gavi, the Wellcome Trust, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Bolstered by contacts at the highest levels of Western nations and empowered by well-grooved relationships with drug makers, they form a kind of global health monopoly (tinyurl.com/yc7fdn4u)—according to Woke mainstream Politico, which would have dismissed these ideas as right-wing conspiracy theory one month ago.


AAPS Calendar

AAPS 80th Annual Meeting: October 26-28, 2023, Ft. Worth, Texas.


ACTION OF THE MONTH

The AAPS Educational Foundation offers scholarships to medical students and residents to attend our meetings. Have interested persons contact us at aaps@aapsonline.org.


The Court Versus the Left

The U.S. Supreme Court is no longer a belligerent in the culture war, writes Wesley Stine. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization reversed 20th-century liberalism’s biggest achievement, as accomplished in the Warren and Burger Courts, which consisted of finding increasingly creative ways to say, “The old separation of powers is abolished. We are the real legislature now.”

The Court found itself playing the role that Octavian and his heirs had played in first century Rome, Stine observes. Like early imperial Rome, the U.S. was still nominally a Republic, but its the elected arm had been relegated to the role that the senators, consuls, and tribunes played under the principate—their power was limited to those issues on which the emperor (in our case, the Supreme Court) did not have a strong opinion.

The Left is now losing on abortion, on guns, on religious freedom, and on the powers of regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The ruling class is very angry. In Orwellian doublespeak, they insist that allowing the abortion issue to be resolved “by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting” is an attack on democracy. Progressive leaders are dropping their support for judicial supremacy. The Court has lopped off one head of the many-headed hydra. “But the state courts, the universities, the press, the administrative state, and the major corporations are still lined up against the American people, and they will continue to wield the bulk of real power.” Restoring the Republic will be a hard struggle, with an uncertain outcome, in Stine’s view (Chronicles, August 2022, https://tinyurl.com/ycxfywj3).

“The court has only just begun to reshape the country,” laments editorialist Maya Sen (“Save the Supreme Court and Democracy,” Science 8/11/22). But reform is “not impossible.”


Litigation Briefs

NYPD Union Members Ordered to Be Reinstated. New York City police officers who were fired because of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate must be reinstated, ruled Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank. The mandate imposed a new condition of employment and issued enforcement beyond monetary sanctions prescribed in the law. The city said it would appeal, likely freezing the judge’s ruling (https://tinyurl.com/2hyxjn9p).

Freedom of Conscience. Physicians cannot be forced to do abortions or to provide transgender drugs or surgeries, ruled the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra. The Biden Administration and the ACLU were attempting to compel performance of these actions under §1557 of the Affordable Care Act (https://tinyurl.com/3cts2s4f).


Tip of the Month: The finest Supreme Court Justice of the last century was Robert H. Jackson, who never attended college and never graduated from law school. He presided in the 1940s and 1950s, and yet is denied credit by leftist law professors. In ruling for the religious liberty of a student, Jackson famously held, “Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.” One of his comments can come in handy amid so many tyrannical prosecutions today: “Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances.”


FBI Invades Home of Pro-Life Activist

At 7 a.m., 25 to 30 heavily armed FBI agents entered the home of Mark Houck, pointing their assault rifles throughout the house and terrifying seven children. Houk was taken away in handcuffs on a charge of assaulting an abortion clinic volunteer a year ago, a charge dismissed by the Philadelphia District Court.  Reportedly, Houck had pushed back against the man, who was verbally abusing his son. Houck has been indicted for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a felony charge that carries a prison sentence of up to 11 years, and fines of up to $350,000 (https://tinyurl.com/3kmnrbm8). Pro-abortion activists that are attacking pregnancy resource centers are also subject to FACE but are not being prosecuted, states Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) (https://tinyurl.com/5vpukjdf).


JAMA Bemoans Constraints on Agencies

The Supreme Court’s action on vaccine mandates limits the  federal government’s ability to flexibly protect public health, write Lawrence Gostin, J.D., et al. They cite justices dissenting in the OSHA case: it “stymies the Federal Government’s ability to counter unparalleled” threats (JAMA 2/22/22). Biden advisor Ashish Jha, M.D., is “deeply worried” that people are going to start unwinding other vaccine mandates. AMA president George Harmon, M.D., said the Court had “halted one of the most effective tools in the fight against further transmission and death from this aggressive virus.” AMA requires both the primary COVID series and boosters of all 1,200 workers, even those who never report to an office (Abbasi J, et al., JAMA 2/22/22).


Professional Civil Disobedience

According to the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, there may be times when physicians must accept, en masse, fines, licensure suspension, even imprisonment, rather than harm a patient. Past examples include Soviet imprisonment of political prisoners in psychiatric facilities, South Africans filing false reports on prisoners injured by police, and participation in torture. In today’s America, Matthew Wynia, M.D., M.P.H., suggests that professional associations consider supporting physicians who engage in civil disobedience on one issue: participation in illegal abortions: “to repair the moral fabric of our country and the integrity of our profession, which have been so injudiciously ruptured by the Supreme Court” (NEJM 9/15/22, https://tinyurl.com/t596u95b).


The Scarlet ‘E’

The late Angelo Codevilla wrote: “Asking Americans to label one another ‘extremists’ is the most ruinous thing that the woke oligarchy’s malevolent morons are doing to our country. They mean to criminalize insufficient deference to themselves.” Machiavelli recognized that nothing destroys republics more surely than placing anonymous accusations into the hands of rulers.

Codevilla cites the apocryphal story that when the Nazis demanded that Jews in Denmark wear a yellow star, all Danes, starting with King Christian X, put on the star. It is within our power to defang the accusation of extremism in a similar way, he suggests (https://tinyurl.com/4ck3nz2v).


Correspondence

A Model. Chinese officials look at the UK as a cautionary tale of a government placing “human rights above security.” Instead, Xi  Jinping encouraged implementing aspects of the U.S. “war on terror” following the 9/11 attacks. He said to “show absolutely no mercy” in the “struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism.” The “organs of dictatorship” are needed to deal with extremism. Prolonged isolation and detention of Uighurs for “vocational training” is justified by the language of disease. “Freedom is only possible when this ‘virus’ in their thinking is eradicated and they are in good health.” There has been resistance from local officials. In 2017, there were more than 12,000 investigations into party members for violations related to the “fight against separatism” (https://tinyurl.com/mppkjvv7).

The New York Times acquired some 400 pages of leaked Chinese documents (https://tinyurl.com/48n6rx8r).

In the U.S., failure to support “ruling authorities” (hospital administrations) can land a physician in a treatment center for “disruptive” behavior that applies similar methods. The “patients” may be on lockdown for months and not allowed to have any contact with spouse or family—not even phone calls. Coercive drugging may occur. In one case, we learned that a resident physician was threatened with electroconvulsive shock therapy unless he altered his attitude toward the ruling authorities (it was never actually administered). Where are we headed?

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


It’s the Money. Here’s the secret to the explosion of transgender surgeries. In 2014 Obama modified Medicare/Medicaid law to pay for this. Then in 2016 Obamacare forced such coverage onto private insurers. No wonder Johns Hopkins restarted its sex change program in 2015, and so many other institutions have gotten on the bandwagon. Just 3,256 gender transition procedures were performed in the U.S. in 2016; the next year, the number surged by more than 150%, and in 2020 surpassed 16,000 (https://tinyurl.com/4399cafr).

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


Shadowbanning Search Engines? If you search my Substack for “rabbi,” “rabbis,” or a similar word, many articles come up, but not the one about rabbis misleading people on COVID jabs’ effect on fertility. Is it because Substack doesn’t want people to see my discussion of a 82% miscarriage rate in women jabbed during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, based on an article in NEJM (https://tinyurl.com/2tbazr53)?

James Hill, M.D., San Francisco, CA


“Science.” Dr. Paul Thomas is suing the Oregon Medical Board for $35 million (https://tinyurl.com/mu6cfc8t). Apparently, he did a study, got it published in a journal, and the state medical board suspended his license because they don’t like his findings. Whatever happened to free speech, free scientific inquiry? A plaque at the University of Wisconsin (1894) states: “Whatever may be the limitations that trammel inquiry elsewhere we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should forever encourage the continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”  

Albert Fisher, M.D., Oshkosh, WI


Howling at the Moon. The administrative state and its voice, the corporate media, are having a temper tantrum over Supreme Court decisions—demanding that we “discipline” or ditch the “rogue” Court. Or even the Constitution or the Union itself. One might think that threatening justices and their wives would be more likely to warrant the term “domestic terrorism” than discussing the merits of early COVID treatment or the dangers of novel genetic vaccine technology. What is causing the extreme anguish is the Court’s attempt to leash the out-of-control Administrative State and bring it to heel. And to force Congress to stop delegating responsibility to a bureaucracy that has morphed into a corporatist inverted totalitarian state Mastiff.

Robert Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/3t426ytz


Thinking Points. CDC budget, $10.6 billion; FDA budget, $6.1 billion; Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine revenue, $33 billion; Moderna COVID-19 vaccine revenue, $21 billion; advance purchase order for reformulated shots, $3.2 billion; efficacy trials for the rejiggered boosters, 8 mice. The most expensive BALB mouse costs about $48.91. The antibody tests cost $391.28. Add a bit for mouse food. No autopsies were done.

Toby Rogers, Ph.D.


Misinformed Rabbis. I have read that two respected Zionist rabbis said that the unvaccinated are not following rabbinical law and should be barred from worshipping in temples. They are ignorant of medical facts. Jewish law simply says that health should supersede any Talmudic law.

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


Driven by Fear. World-wide bureaucrats learned from this two-year experiment in lockdowns and mass vaccinations that abject fear can be effective in population control but destroys the world’s economies and irreparably alters people’s lives forever.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/ytwdsrwy


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AAPS News September 2022 – “Our Democracy”

Volume 78, no. 9  September 2022

When Speaker Pelosi and other politicians warn about threats to “our democracy,” they mean threats to their position of power.

Yes, we have elections, but for the Left, only the outcome matters, not a fair and honest process. In the Jan 6 so-called insurrection (tinyurl.com/5etr3rjz), protesters were not calling for overturning an election, but for delaying certification until states could investigate alleged irregularities. In our constitutional Republic it is the states’ responsibility to certify results.

For contrast, consider the real 2014 insurrection in Maidan, Ukraine, with 20 killed and hundreds wounded (tinyurl.com/mrxv45ry). This overturned a democratic election; deposed sitting President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled the country; and “restructured” the government, with advice from the U.S., including then-Vice President Joe Biden. This was one of many U.S.-supported “color revolutions” that resulted in a “regime change,” a.k.a. “putsch” or “coup d’etat” (tinyurl.com/yvba829t).

Before U.S. midterm elections can roll back some of the power the Left gained in 2020, a “pre-emptive coup” is being attempted, with air cover from the New York Times editorial board (https://tinyurl.com/2kt6ddm9). The message, writes Human Events  editor Jack Posobiec, is that “the only way to stop fascism and defend democracy is to indict President Donald J. Trump [for as yet undetermined crimes], to indict his supporters, to jail them, to criminalize them and to make them otherwise unacceptable in polite society” (https://tinyurl.com/ykmhaz5d).

No mens rea is needed. More than 850 Americans have already been charged with crimes for their roles in the “Capitol attack,” states the NYT. “Well-meaning intentions did not shield them from the consequences of their actions.”

The NYT provided cover for the Holocaust and the Holodomar—by not reporting, or outright denial. Without transparency, checks and balances, or NYT scrutiny, Franklin Roosevelt massively supported Stalin’s violent restructuring of Europe. Despite overwhelming American anti-war sentiment and forceful opposition in Congress, FDR funneled the equivalent of $1 trillion in resources to Stalin. This included 0.75 tons of uranium-235, 1,100 grams of deuterium, and 25,000 pounds of thorium (kept off the record at Harry Hopkins’s request), which helped kick-start the Soviet atomic bomb program (Sean McMeekin, Stalin’s War, discussed at https://tinyurl.com/3fcmhvhj).

Demonizing the Opposition

In a prime-time Sep 1 campaign speech in Philadelphia, President “unity and healing” Biden said that Trump supporters’  “extremism threatens the very foundations of our Republic” (https://tinyurl.com/y8ea2zks).

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stated that Biden’s labeling Republicans as “semi-fascists” was an “act of aggression…against his own people.” Gingrich also noted that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that the FBI asked him to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story for the three or four weeks before the 2020 election (https://tinyurl.com/44f28kka).

According to the Washington Times, Biden framed the 2022  midterm elections as an eternal battle for “the soul of America.” He said “democracy cannot survive” under the belief system of  the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement (https://tinyurl.com/4h66yxaj). In this view, Americans who hold the same beliefs as our Founders are extremist and fascist.

Since fascists are portrayed as subhuman and pure evil, the accusation is an invitation to violence. Stalin was fighting fascists—and there was no Nuremberg trial for Soviet atrocities.

The staging for Biden’s speech—blood-red lighting, the flag on a red/black background, and Marines standing at attention behind the President—was described as “Riefenstahlesque” [for the film producer who played a seminal tole in producing Nazi propaganda such as Triumph of the Will]. It resembled the stage of dystopian British Nazi dictator Adam Sadler from V for Vendetta (https://tinyurl.com/2kt4bc8z). The raised-fist gesturing by the speaker appears Hitleresque. The speech occurred on the Sep 1 anniversary of the start of World War II. Neither timing, content, nor backdrop is likely to be accidental. Are our rulers accusing their opponents of what they themselves are doing?

Inverted Totalitarianism

The restructured U.S. government is a “managed democracy” under the control of corporate oligarchs—an administrative state (“Deep State”), which is by definition fascist, writes Robert Malone, M.D. The historic Jefferson vs. Hamilton question was whether capitalism is a tool of (representative constitutional) democracy or democracy is a tool of capitalism. Corporate interests are now capturing control by exerting financial power and influence over the political process. An alliance of transnational corporations (“the party of Davos”) is bringing an emerging system of inverted totalitarianism on a global scale (tinyurl.com/nhejzxhf). The Dept. of Health and Human Services is a leading branch of the administrative state (tinyurl.com/49kvzdn7).

To “protect Our Democracy,” opposition has to be wiped out. Quoting Washington Post “conservative” columnist Jennifer Rubin, Mark Steyn writes: “It’s not only that @realDonaldTrump has to lose, his enablers have to lose. We have to collectively burn down the Republican Party. We have to level them. Because if there are survivors….they will do it again” (tinyurl.com/22rvwaxc).


Flashback

“In 1943, the following directive was issued from Party headquarters to all Communists in the United States. It read: ‘When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable buildups, as fascists or Nazi, or anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of antifascist and tolerance organizations to discredit them. In the public mind, constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell. The association will after enough repetition become fact in the public mind’” (https://tinyurl.com/4xs9rved).


Illness and Death Spikes

Insurance Claims. Techniker Krankenkasse, the largest German medical insurance company, reports a total of 437,593 insurance claims billed under the four diagnostic codes for vaccine injury in 2021, compared with 13,777 in 2019 and 15,044 in 2020. This suggests that 4.3% of TK’s 11 million insured had a medical treatment for vaccine injury. This rate agrees closely with estimates based on reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the EudraVigilance system, adjusted for under-reporting, writes Daniel Horowitz (https://tinyurl.com/4s3w7bkz).

U.S. Life Insurance Payouts. Annual statements filed by the five largest life insurers, obtained by the Informed Consent Action Network, showed that they paid out from 19% to 43% more death benefits in 2021 compared with 2017–2019 (https://tinyurl.com/mwdjszpk).

Cancers and Excess Deaths spiked in 2021 and 2022, writes Dr. Paul Alexander, after rollout of COVID-19 jabs and boosters (tinyurl.com/5cmjtusw). Unexplained mortality is noticeable in many countries, reports Tucker Carlson (tinyurl.com/2h4fds8p).

Early Post-vaccine Death. Based on a review of data from the UK Office for National Statistics, one in 482 persons receiving the COVID jab dies within one month. In every age group, the death rate in the vaccinated is significantly higher than in the  unvaccinated (The Exposé 8/13/22, tinyurl.com/yd75zaps). Caution: the analyst is unnamed; the publication is censored by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Paypal.

Cardiac Effects. In a Thai study, nearly 30% of adolescents had cardiac effects ranging from tachycardia to myocarditis, after a COVID jab. Myopericarditis was confirmed in one of 301 patients and suspected in six (https://tinyurl.com/zsen3f9n).

Deaths in Athletes. Between January 2021 and August 2022, more than 1,200 cardiac arrests and serious issues were reported in athletes, with 849 dead, compared with previous incidence of sudden deaths in athletes under age 35 of around 29 per year (https://tinyurl.com/2h6p8pyk).

No U.S. Billing Codes for Vaccine Injuries? Such injuries are said to be untracked and not billable (tinyurl.com/z3dkxjrk).

Funeral Business Thriving. Prime Caskets reports a 20% increase in orders for typical caskets, and a 400% increase in orders for child-size. For the first time in 30 years, a family business is getting bulk orders for child caskets (ibid.)


“Misinformation is what ‘they’ want you to miss! Disinformation is truth ‘they’ dismiss!” —Michelle Malkin


What about the Dissident German Scientists?

A preliminary report by the German Working Group for COVID Vaccine Analysis (https://tinyurl.com/mr4xr48y), whose members choose to remain anonymous, is said to be “sending shockwaves reverberating around the world.” The group claims to have found “toxic substances” in all the COVID vaccine samples they analyzed. Beware of reliance on this report.

Batch testing of all vaccines by government and private labs independent of manufacturers is required in Europe and the UK, and they were certified to contain no significant impurities or contaminants. To check whether these labs are lying, the dissidents could have replicated their analytical methods, and added other published, validated methods—instead of relying on substandard, unvalidated, discredited, or misinterpreted tests. Apparently they overlooked a plethora of readily available forensic toxicology and pharmacology analytical protocols.

 Enthusiastic comments have appeared, but also harsh criticism, e.g., https://9gag.com/gag/aYr8eVw. One critic calls the report a “theatrical prop,” a “dilettante document produced by amateurs” that could mislead physicians lacking scientific training as well as the naïve public.

One ludicrous claim is to have “trained” artificial intelligence, using only 14 pictures. Absolutely missing from this report are the molecular genetic aspects of the “vaccines,” which are key.

Could it be a sophisticated attempt to poison the well?


The Psychology of Totalitarianism

In attempting to understand the abrupt pivot of nearly every country to follow China’s repressive example, and the remarkable transfer of power to “experts,” whom he compares to the pigs on Orwell’s Animal Farm, Mattias Desmet draws on his knowledge of statistics, psychology, and philosophy. Given the poor quality of academic research, “we can never take ‘science’ for granted.”

 He calls the COVID response “mass formation.” People become radically blind to everything that goes against the group belief; willing to radically sacrifice individual interest for the sake of the collective; and radically intolerant for dissonant voices.

COVID fits into a series of desperate crises to which the only response is increased control. Fear originates from the failure of the Grand Narrative of our society: the narrative of mechanistic science, in which man is reduced to a biological organism, which ignores the psychological, spiritual, and ethical dimensions of human beings. “Totalitarianism is a defining feature of the Enlightenment tradition,” he states.

The solution to our fear and uncertainty does not lie in the increase of (technological) control. It is essential to reclaim a timely human capacity—Truth Speech (tinyurl.com/bd3hu5h5).


AAPS Calendar

October 13–15. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO

Nov. 3. Webinar: Marxism in Medicine


ACTION OF THE MONTH

The AAPS Educational Foundation offers scholarships to medical students and residents to attend our annual meeting. Have interested persons contact us at aaps@aapsonline.org.


Doctors Sue over Online Censorship

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and biostatistician Martin Kulldorff, coauthors of the Great Barrington Declaration, among others, have joined a lawsuit challenging government-directed social media censorship (State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al.) (tinyurl.com/ycwemrph).

“Public statements, emails, and recent publicly released documents establish that the president of the United States and other senior officials…violated the First Amendment by directing social media companies to censor viewpoints that conflict with the government’s messaging on COVID-19,” stated the New Civil Liberties Alliance (tinyurl.com/yc6j4wmm). “The government may not work through private entities to accomplish censorship that the First Amendment forbids the government from doing directly. Yet that is precisely what these federal defendants have been up to,” stated Mark Chenoweth, NCLA General Counsel.

Named agencies include the White House, HHS, DHS, CDC, NIAID, FBI, the Office of the Surgeon General, the Census Bureau, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (https://tinyurl.com/ye26tpf8). According to emails obtained by state attorneys general, Facebook and the Biden Administration arranged weekly or monthly calls to discuss what to censor on the platform (https://tinyurl.com/4vwrhtrx). Discovery documents have revealed more than 50 officials in the vast federal censorship army colluding in secret with private companies.

How are so many recruited to serve as “Fauci’s Red Guards”? Michael Senger describes the technique of forced preference falsification perfected in Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.

When those who speak up in principled opposition to a policy are punished and forced into silence, others are also silenced or even forced to pretend to support the policy. Emboldened by this facade of unanimity, supporters become convinced that the policies are just and good, and that critics deserve  punishment.

The method can operate outside of fully totalitarian societies, and can cause any mass of people to support virtually any policy. Thus, free speech is critical (tinyurl.com/2tn5fpv2).


Minitrue Shut Down—after Our Lawsuit Filed

On Aug 24, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it would be officially terminating its Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) and rescinding its charter. The Homeland Security Advisory Council stated that while DHS “must be able to address the disinformation threat streams that can undermine the security of our homeland,” a separate DGB is not needed (https://tinyurl.com/3v39x79z). The AAPS Educational Foundation lawsuit against the DGB as well as certain specialty boards was filed Jul 12 (tinyurl.com/y3arw78t).

Tip of the Month: The fastest growing American demographic is the Amish, whose population is doubling every 20 years. They now live in 32 states. They are entirely free market and reject all insurance and government programs. They dislike hospitals for restricting visits to loved ones during COVID-19. They welcome modern medicine and house calls, and can be driven to physicians’ offices. Some Amish communities are even setting up their own medical clinics. At their current rate of population growth, the Amish could be the majority in 200 years.


Moderna Sues Pfizer over Patent Infringement

Moderna has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging that the two companies copied Moderna’s patented mRNA technology and claiming that neither of the companies possessed the necessary know-how to have produced the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine on their own.

Moderna is not seeking damages for activities occurring before Mar 8, 2022, but is apparently concerned about asserting primacy in future development of mRNA technology, such as new groundbreaking vaccines (https://tinyurl.com/2e9zetmj).

A platform is 10 times more valuable than a blockbuster drug, stated attorney Erik Gordon (tinyurl.com/3ckbp2w2).

The rush to sue over a patent happens to coincide with a preprint by Qin et al. about how wonderfully effective a new mRNA-LNP formulation for the flu vaccine is in a mouse model (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.16.484616v2). The author’s summary states: “Mice pre-exposed to mRNA-LNPs can pass down the acquired immune traits to their offspring.” Dr. Ah Kahn Syed concludes: “The RNA injected into the original mice was incorporated into the genome in the oocytes of the maternal line of mice.” Dr. Syed (“Arkmedic”) speculates on patent implications (https://tinyurl.com/5n6hbpzp) of the incorporation of synthetic genetic material into offspring. What about the companies’ claim that COVID products cannot affect your DNA?


Pfizer Sued under False Claims Act

Whistleblower Brook Jackson, who worked as regional director at one of the clinical trials used to develop the Pfizer vaccine, has filed suit alleging that Pfizer and two of its subcontractors violated the False Claims Act by providing bogus clinical trial results to garner the FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine. The payout could exceed $3 trillion.

“Respondents claim fraudulent certifications, false statements, doctored data, contaminated clinical trials, and firing of whistleblowers can be ignored based on the theory that they contracted their way around the fraud,” write Jackson’s lawyers. In their response to Pfizer’s motion to dismiss, they argue: “A drug company cannot induce the taxpayers to pay billions of dollars for a product that honest data would show poses more risks than benefits to most Americans and that ignores the actual contract and the law itself” (https://tinyurl.com/4njs53rz).


Biden Mandate Illegal, Tyrannical, AAPS Says

In an amicus brief on the challenge to the COVID vaccine mandate on federal workers, AAPS writes:

Elections may have consequences, but tyranny should never be one of them. Biden does not properly have dictatorial powers over anyone. He is restrained by the limited scope of federal power over anyone’s personal life, including that of federal workers. He is confined to what Congress has or has not authorized with respect to major questions such as a broad vaccine mandate against millions of people. Biden is further limited by fundamental principles of informed consent that are deeply ingrained in our American legal system.

Read full brief at:  https://tinyurl.com/nfvvwnh6


Correspondence

“Misinformation.” As President Joe Biden said: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Despite being vaccinated and boosted, Dr. Fauci got COVID. Double vaxxed and double boosted and treated with Paxlovid, Joe Biden got “rebound” COVID. Now, double vaxxed, double boosted and Paxlovid treated Jill Biden also has “rebound” Covid. Could it be that COVID shots increase the probability of getting re-infected with COVID or infected with another Covid variant?

The virus is clearly sending the “wrong message,” and is, therefore, spreading “misinformation.”

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Inevitable Viral Behavior. A coronavirus, which is a common cold virus, “comes around” once or twice a year to infect and reinfect people naturally. Every 10 years a particularly nasty variant emerges as SARS, METS, and recently COVID-19. This is the nature of the disease, quite like flu infections. The genetic and infection parameters will continue to drift, and individual health plays a major role in scope and outcomes.

Paul M. Kempen, M.D., Ph.D., Weirton, WV


The End of Limited Government. Asked to comment on the FBI’s raid of former president Trump’s home, Victor Davis Hanson writes: “We don’t have rule of law in Washington….  FBI is beyond redemption” (https://tinyurl.com/y8bxfzju).

When President Obama weaponized federal agencies and politicized the military, he created a true-believer leftist partisan administrative state. Federal government agencies of import are acting unconstitutionally against the populace. The FBI is the glaring example, but you can’t  name a department of the federal bureaucracy that respects the idea of a constitutional republic.  

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


 Statistical Malpractice. I have been looking at vaccine safety studies since 2015. These studies contain no biology, no chemistry, and vanishingly little statistics. These people are doing arithmetic, badly. The CDC fails to use proper statistical tools (multivariate analysis and beyond) but relies upon crude bivariate analysis that is categorically rejected by all other fields of scholarly endeavor.  The vulgarity of vaccine safety studies is covered up by the PR machine for the most ruthless industry in the world (and a web of financial relationships that has become “too big to fail”). Why do scholars who could spot the errors in these studies in about 10 minutes fail to call the CDC out on their chicanery?

Toby Rogers, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/mdxz27d2


770,000 Reports. In a CDC contract going up for re-bid, the contractor would need to process 770,000 digital reports per year related to COVID-19 vaccines alone. For the past 30 years, the average number of adverse events reports to VAERS for all vaccines combined was 39,000 per year.

Jessica Rose, https://tinyurl.com/bmjpxt3d


No Informed Consent. Vaccine-injured people need to file official complaints, which may be the only way to hold vaccine administrators accountable. A father whose child got severe myocarditis recorded a phone call with the pharmacist, whom he asked why she didn’t tell his wife about this risk: “We might scare the parents, and they might not want to get their child vaccinated” (https://tinyurl.com/yc3a83kz).

Joseph Guarino, M.D., Reidsville, NC


Staff Shortages at NIH and CDC. Employees are quitting in droves, owing to low morale over inconsistent messaging and embarrassment over the bad science used to authorize vaccinating children under five to please the White House. High officials met me secretly on walks on the D.C. mall in fall 2020, telling me not to stop warning about vaccine dangers and lockdowns. They are silent out of fear for their careers and safety.

Paul E. Alexander, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/37v69bzd


Corrupting Medicine. Over the last 30 or 40 years, doctors and scientists have been silenced by the managerial methodology of contracts—that sign over everything you know to the people who hired you. The only way new doctors can get a job is to give up their intellectual freedom. Regulatory and operational capture of hospitals, health insurance, and physicians by government, big pharma, big tech, and hospitalists working in consort is almost  100% complete now.  We must resist and take back our power.

Robert Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/nhejzxhf


What Is Democracy. As economist Michael Hudson points out, “when President Biden describes this great world conflict aimed at isolating China, Russia, India, Iran and their Eurasian trading partners, he characterizes this as an existential struggle between ‘democracy’ and ‘autocracy.’ By ‘democracy’ he means oligarchy. And by ‘autocracy’ he means any government strong enough to prevent a financial oligarchy from taking over government and society and imposing neoliberal rules—by force.” He sees the world economy as controlled by extractive, parasitic interests. Neoliberalism allows the inexorable growth of debt, concentrating wealth in the One Percent, and reducing the citizenry to bondage.

John Day, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/mwwevh5y

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AAPS Foundation Sues Medical Dictators – AAPS News August 2022
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Volume 78, no. 8

The AAPS Educational Foundation has filed suit against the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ABOG), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and Alejandro Mayorkas, in his official capacity as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The lawsuit concerns defendants’ “unprecedented campaigns to censor speech that they falsely disparage as ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’” (tinyurl.com/y3arw78t).

“Defendants wrongly misuse their authority in a politically partisan manner to chill speech….  Defendants have acted in an apparently coordinated manner, using similar timing and terminology, to censor those who exercise their First Amendment rights on issues of public concern,” the complaint states.

It notes that the Board Defendants have certification monopolies. “Although only official state medical boards have the proper authority to regulate the practice of medicine, certifications by the Board Defendants constitute a de facto essential credential for practicing in most hospitals or participating in most networks.” Threats to revoke certification improperly chill speech, and Defendants, unlike licensure boards, have no political accountability.

ABIM and ABFM have already sent letters to physicians threatening them with revocation of their earned board certifications based on their statements on issues of public concern. Board Defendants are apparently retaliating against physicians who were praised by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in his bestselling book The Real Anthony Fauci, in some cases expressly because of criticizing Dr. Fauci, who as a government official may be freely criticized.

ABOG has publicly warned physicians against making public statements against abortion and contraception. ABOG stridently supports universal access to abortion, with taxpayer funding, and ABOG sharply criticized the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs.

ABOG also threatens physicians for warning pregnant women against receiving the COVID vaccine, even though the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a similar warning in 2021.

The Board Defendants’ threatening letters and the creation of the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board (“DGB”) by DHS Secretary Mayorkas closely followed on the directive by President Joe Biden, which states: “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets: Please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that’s on your shows.”

Attorneys general from 20 states, led by Virginia and joined by Texas,  released a letter to Defendant Mayorkas, dated May 5, 2022, which protested the unconstitutionality of the DGB.  The letter repeated what Justice Brandeis explained in 1927 in Whitney v. California that the remedy for error is “more speech, not enforced silence.”

“The mere existence of DGB has the effect of chilling speech by Plaintiff,” the complaint argues. Public remarks by Dr. Fauci appear “to call implicitly for censorship of speech based on content that one political party disfavors.”

The complaint notes that the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), tasked to “most effectively and appropriately address disinformation that poses a threat to the homeland, while protecting free speech and other fundamental rights,” is subject to the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), but is violating them with respect to the DGB.

Plaintiff asks that Defendant Boards be prohibited from retaliating against physicians for speaking out on matters of public concern and that Defendant Mayorkas be required to comply fully with FACA or to abolish DGB altogether.

Information on Harm

Threatened physicians are the ones who are countering the official disinformation narrative and telling the public about the harm of denying early treatment, of lockdowns, and of COVID-19 vaccine adverse effects.

Board threats are in themselves harmful. As dozens of physicians write in an open letter to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Federation of State Medical Boards  (FSMB), “actions against the leading medical doctors, that have pioneered the development and deployment of treatment protocols against COVID-19, and who are now making similar efforts towards the treatment of patients that have been injured by the COVID-19 vaccines, threatens the right to life and the well-being of the American public” (https://tinyurl.com/ynpvkcc8). 

Most of the “public health” narratives about COVID-19 have been false—i.e., misinformation, argues former Pfizer vice-president Dr. Michael Yeadon (https://tinyurl.com/mfjeu983).

Adverse events do follow COVID-19 injections: more than 1.3 million have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), including nearly 30,000 deaths, as of July 1 (tinyurl.com/2xtfe8wx), but certified physicians dare not mention them because that might promote “vaccine hesitancy.” For the newly described Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS), the proposed explanations include: sleeping position, drinking tea, eating eggs, cold weather, solar storms, climate change, and too much or too little exercise (tinyurl.com/yc6uyudh).

Upon hearing of ABIM’s threat to remove Dr. Peter McCullough’s certification, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) offered to have an open expert panel on the scientific issues. ABIM declined. “What constitutes ‘misinformation’ shall be exclusively determined by a board of doctors THEY appoint” (tinyurl.com/msunp6yj).


Prescience or Planning?

James Gruhl, Ph.D., summarizes the series of globalist-run pandemic simulations described in Robert F. Kennedy’s book The Real Doctor Fauci. The series started with Topoff 2000. Dark Winter 2001 added vaccines, the CDC, the U.S. Air Force, Big Pharma, and the CIA. Project Bioshield 2004 added the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, the FDA, and ATF. Atlantic Storm added WHO. Global Mercury coordinated all Western nations and added the Department of State. SLC Simulation 2005 added the Rockefeller Foundation and massive Orwellian surveillance. MARS 2017 added the World Bank and  the Koch Institute and planned how to blame busy wet markets in Wuhan. SPARS 2017 was run by Bill Gates and planned strategies for squashing therapeutics and keeping up interest in the vaccine through social media death counts. CLADE X 2018 included a healthcare collapse, stock market crash, FDA/CIA/CDC, total military control, and a vaccine in which Gates and Fauci had already invested enormous resources. Crimson Contagion 2019 specifically avoided off-label therapeutic possibilities. Event 201 practiced removal/canceling of vaccine critics from all social media platforms and coordinated all parts of government, media, corporations, foundations, and academies. This is a partial list (https://tinyurl.com/49baxd9k).

All aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including a shortage of masks and number of deaths, were predicted.


Unnatural Origin? 

 A 2015 book, The Unnatural Origins of SARS and Man-Made Genetic Weapons of New Human Viruses, edited by Dezhong Xu and Feng Li, published by the Military Medical Science Press (Beijing), provides extensive historical and scientific background regarding the SARS-CoV-1 virus.

According to the translators’ 2021 foreword,  “This book serves as a framework and protocol to guide the PLA [People’s Liberation Army] to create SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, which is a ‘contemporary genetic bioweapon.’” They also state that another purpose is to “cover up its earlier publication in Nature back in 2013 revealing the true origin of SARS-CoV and…to shift the blame to other countries, like the United States.” 

The translators ask, but do not answer, whether the COVID vaccine is also a genetic weapon (ibid.).


Nominating Committee Report 

The slate to be presented at the Springfield meeting is:

President-elect: Jane Hughes, M.D., San Antonio, TX

Secretary: Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake Eden, NY

Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL

Directors: Richard Amerling, M.D., St. Augustine, FL; Janis Chester, M.D., Dover, DE; Phil Eskew, D.O., J.D., M.B.A., Jonesborough, TN; Albert Fisher, M.D., Oshkosh, WI; David Levine, M.D., Columbus, GA; Vicki Wooll, M.D., Boise, ID.


“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”

Ernest Hemingway


GAO Reports Political Interference on COVID

A 37-page report by the U.S. General Accounting Office  warned that American federal agencies that have managed the pandemic public policy response (including vaccine and drug development) have no mechanism to stop political interference in scientific decision-making and no mechanisms for receiving whistleblower reports. These agencies include the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).  A GAO investigation, involving semi-structured interviews and a confidential hotline, found many instances of such interference.  Employees said they did not report because they feared retaliation, were unsure about how to report issues, or believed agency leaders were already aware (https://tinyurl.com/2d46emjn).


COVID: Crisis of the Administrative State

The administrative overreach, dishonesty, mismanagement, and ethical breaches throughout the crisis result from a perverted bureaucratic system of governance, which is completely insulated from functional oversight by elected officials, writes Dr. Robert Malone. “The arc of the history of the COVID crisis encompasses collusive planning between a wide range of corporate interests, globalists, and the administrative state (Event 201); subsequent efforts to cover up administrative state culpability in creating the crisis; followed by gross mismanagement of public health policies, decision making, and communication all acting in lockstep with the preceding planning sessions” [see above].

Within the agencies, he explains, “In a Machiavellian sense, these senior administrators function as The Prince, each federal health institute functions as a semi-autonomous city-state, and the administrators and their respective courtiers act accordingly.  To complete this analogy, congress functions [like] the Vatican during the 16th century, with each Prince vying for funding and power by currying favor with influential archbishops.”

Dr. Malone examines the legal underpinnings and the history of these developments. Since the 2001 anthrax spore incidents, “HHS has increasingly been horizontally integrated with the intelligence community as well as with the Department of Homeland Security to form a health security state with enormous ability to shape and enforce ‘consensus’ through widespread propaganda, censorship, ‘nudge’ technology and intentional manipulation of the ‘Mass Formation’ hypnosis.”

Dr. Malone warns of “inverted totalitarianism” and the fusion of mega-corporations with the administrative “deep state,” of which HHS is the leading branch (tinyurl.com/4wasm2u9).

Not just our profession, but the American system of government is at stake.


 AAPS Calendar

October 13–15. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO. https://aapsonline.org/2022am


ACTION OF THE MONTH

The AAPS Educational Foundation offers scholarships to medical students and residents to attend our annual meeting. Have interested persons contact us at aaps@aapsonline.org.


FDA Crusade against Ivermectin Illegal

The Food and Drug Administration’s relentless effort to cause doctors to shun ivermectin appeared to be a misinformation campaign instituted at the top of the agency. Dr. Ben Carson and attorney C. Boyden Gray write that this violated “both fundamental ethics and the law.” Congress was explicit in its intentions in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that the FDA was not to “interfere in the practice of medicine, which includes prescribing drugs off-label.” The FDA also pressured umbrella boards and licensing organizations to, in turn, pressure their members on a state-by-state basis to avoid the drug.

The agency displayed “insatiable arrogance,” refusing “to be satisfied with its authority over market entry and labeling, and instead tried to commandeer the role of doctors in treating their patients as well” (https://tinyurl.com/4rj6tnjn).


FDA Empowers Pharmacists, Bans Doctors

“In 2021, we witnessed one of the most remarkable dynamics unfold in the history of American medicine,” writes Daniel Horowitz. “An order came down through the corporate pharmacy cartel to start illegally practicing medicine by denying prescriptions written by doctors to treat COVID patients…. It wasn’t just ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, but doctors had prescriptions for antibiotics, steroids, and nebulizer treatments denied because ‘there are no treatments for COVID’” (tinyurl.com/yrhysks5).

Then, in July 2022, the FDA approved any pharmacist to “prescribe” Pfizer’s Paxlovid on the spot without a prescription! 

AMA president, Jack Resneck, Jr., M.D., writes: “Paxlovid is an important treatment and critical tool in the fight against COVID-19.” But, “whenever possible, prescribing decisions should be made by a physician” (https://tinyurl.com/ymyh2dvj).

Horowitz notes that there are no long-term safety studies on Paxlovid, and it contains an AIDS drug, ritonavir, which has an FDA black-box warning for potential death when prescribed with several fairly common drugs that seniors might be taking. 

He concludes that “if a certain product becomes part of the ‘spirit of the age,’ all laws, prudence, science, and medical norms are thrown out the window in order to promote the new idol.” Pharmacists admitted to him that they gave shots to patients in age cohorts not yet authorized. However, if a product might challenge the idol of the age, then no law or social, scientific, or medical norm will stop them from banning the drug.


Doctors Sue Twitter over Censorship

Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, and Dr. Bryan Tyson have filed a lawsuit against Twitter, alleging that the social media giant silenced them for posting truthful information about COVID-19. While admitting that as a private company Twitter is not bound by the First Amendment, it is bound to follow its own policies. Truthful tweets do not violate those policies (https://tinyurl.com/ywrch2sk). A letter from the doctors’ attorney states: “Twitter received express and implied threats from government officials to censor certain viewpoints and speakers, lest Twitter face the amendment or revocation of Section 230, or antitrust enforcement. This was a financial decision for Twitter” (https://tinyurl.com/2jhbzb82).

Tip of the Month: If you receive a letter from a specialty board threatening to discipline your board certification, which many who have publicly criticized the Covid vaccine have received, then compel the specialty board to follow its own procedures. It should provide you with all of the documentation that it has to show that any statements against the vaccine were false. So far specialty boards have failed to provide such documentation, even though their procedures require it. Contact AAPS for our templates of responses. Consider citing statements against Anthony Fauci by Sen. Rand Paul, M.D. All physicians have a First Amendment right to speak about matters of public policy, including criticizing government officials, and we are defending against this unfair retaliation by specialty boards.


Court Rules: Canadians Can’t Have Private Care

British Columbia’s highest court has dismissed Dr. Brian Day’s appeal of the decision that denied the right of Canadians to pay for private care when waits for public care became too long (AAPS News, August 2021). The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that the long waiting times in the public system did violate the patient plaintiffs’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: “The risk of death has increased for an unknown number of individuals suffering from life‑threatening conditions who wait beyond the benchmark for certain procedures and who, but for the impugned provisions, would otherwise have been able to access private care and mitigate the wait.” But the breach of their rights is justified to protect those who can’t afford private care, the justices found.

Dr. Day opened the Cambie Surgery Center in 1996, and the legal saga began in 2009. He is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada (https://tinyurl.com/29h4e839).


COVID-19 Rulings

Punishment of USAF Members Blocked. U.S. District Court Judge Matthew McFarland issued  a temporary restraining order preventing the Biden administration from taking any action for at least 14 days against any Air Force member who submitted a verified request for religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine since September 2021. The ruling also grants “class status” to all the 12,000 airmen whose requests for religious exemption were denied or not yet acted upon. Only 104 applications have been approved (https://tinyurl.com/485dwkbt). 

New York Quarantine Rules Unconstitutional. Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of Cattaraugus County (N.Y.) Ronald D. Ploetz struck down the COVID-19 Isolation and Quarantine procedures, known as Rule 2.13, enacted by the Hochul administration with no debate or authorization from the legislature.  Persons could be involuntarily detained at home, or in residential or temporary housing, subject to what the public health authority determined to be “appropriate” conditions.

Judge Ploetz stated that the rule merely gives “lip service” to constitutional due process: “Involuntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty…. [It] may have far-reaching consequences such as loss of income (or employment) and isolation from family.” He added that there was “no scientific data or expert testimony” to back up the rule (tinyurl.com/49uamhty).

The Hochul administration has appealed the ruling.


Correspondence

“Flipping” Healthcare. Like people who “flip” houses to make a big profit, some of private equity firms “flip” entities that control the practice of medicine for profit. According to NBC News, more than 40% of the country’s hospital emergency departments—the biggest net generator and a  huge profit center for most hospitals—are overseen by for-profit care staffing companies owned by private equity firms (tinyurl.com/4e9akwnd). These companies decide how many patients a doctor must see, can direct some of the testing protocols, and can determine what kind of “provider” will see a patient. To circumvent laws in 33 states that require medical care to be provided by entities owned by licensed practitioners, the firms simply pay a physician to put his name on ownership documents. If a physician dares to complain that patients are being harmed, he is summarily fired and told: “There is a responsibility as the corporate representative to support the corporation’s objectives.” 

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Canadian Doctors Are Sorry, but…. they do not know what to do as they will be cancelled and fired, and lose income and their careers. Many met with me and said they feared for their safety. They “had to go along.” Many doctors in Ontario use early treatment themselves or for their families and have fake vaccine cards—perhaps at least two on the College of Physicians and Surgeons Ontario board, who took medical doctors’ licenses away for using early treatment and giving medical exemptions.

Paul Elias Alexander, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/mrxb9rzk


Vaccine Skepticism Grows. Through the course of my career, I never questioned vaccines. I assumed they were safe and effective; it wasn’t my area of research. When I was asked to support a vaccine, like the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine in adult medicine, I did so. But with what has happened with COVID, I have begun to question other vaccines. I found that the efficacy for that pneumococcal vaccine for protection against hospitalization and death is 9%! Standard acceptance criteria would be at least 50% vaccine efficacy, and it should last at least a year. Even the generally uncontroversial pneumococcal and influenza vaccine are nowhere close to being acceptable. I’m dropping them (https://tinyurl.com/4367tfrv).

Peter A. McCullough, M.D.


Progress. Medical care became insurance care became healthcare became government care, and then there was no care.

Craig M. Wax, D.O., Mullica Hill, NJ


Accessories by Silence. How many lives were lost because of bureaucratic medical and health system malfeasance? James Stansbury’s compelling analysis (tinyurl.com/4wz874fk) mirrors the points made by Dr. Peter McCullough. Not only the actively malignant CDC and NIH but also organized medicine and corporate medicine were complicit. Consider the remarkable benefits of early treatment in India. Despite poverty, an ethical medical profession serves patients better than an affluent but corrupt system that censors and harasses dissenters. At what point does the system’s conduct become criminal?

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


All Your Data. The Left’s latest strategy to bring Marxism into medicine is via Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). I learned from congressional staff that SDOH, which is advanced by the  American Recovery Act, is “popping up everywhere” in legislation. Every detail of your life (education, housing, food, transportation, etc.) is deemed part of SDOH and thus a target for government intervention and intrusion.

Twila Brase, R.N., cchfreedom.org


Harmful Use of Data. The CIA has a secret bulk data collection program, authorized under Executive Order 12333, without any of the oversight that comes with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) data collection, write Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). The COVID crisis has been used to usher in new surveillance measures, as well as new definitions as to what is a domestic terrorist (such as being critical of the public health response). And data—such as was collected when I obtained a security clearance—has leaked and could be used by state-sponsored media, hackers, and foreign governments for nefarious purposes (tinyurl.com/2p893h5x).

Robert W. Malone, M.D.


Access to Energy Saved—for Now. On Dec 31, 2021, the UN Security Council moved to vote on a climate-change resolution that would have significantly expanded the criteria for UN intervention in armed conflicts. It is claimed that 100 countries support it. Members who failed to take “drastic” measures recommended by “experts” to “green” their economies immediately would have been considered aggressors against global governance. Russia vetoed the measure. India and China abstained. These three countries, with one-fifth of the world’s land surface and almost half its population saved hydrocarbon fuels. I am not sure who or what is going to save a weakened America from its Marxist regime in control in Washington, D.C.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/ycux3dmc


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AAPS News July 2022: Am I Anti-Vax? Change My Mind

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Volume 78, no. 7  July 2022

These days being called an “anti-vaxxer” is likely an indelible stain, which implies that one is anti-science and pro-disease. Anyone who voices a concern about any vaccine is likely to be tarred with this label. Almost everyone who writes about vaccine adverse effects prefaces the remarks with “I am not an anti-vaxxer. I’ve had all my vaccines, and so have my children, and my patients, and I firmly believe the creed that vaccines are the greatest medical advance in history, that they have saved millions of lives, and that without them we’d have vast epidemics of horrible diseases.”

This profession of faith may be as effective as proclaiming that “I am not a ***ist or ***phobe—I have friends who are black, ‘Latinx,’ gay, trans, or Jewish.” But change could happen.

COVID-19 vaccines have made a hole in the dike.

“The Gish Gallop of the panicked pro-vaxxers,” as described by one physician, has appeared (NY Times Mag 5/25/2022). (The Gish Gallop is a debate technique of overwhelming an opponent with an excessive number of weak arguments and half truths.)

“A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations—with potentially lethal consequences.” Quoting Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, the article states that the anti-vaccine movement is “so strong, so well organized, so well funded, I doubt it will stop at Covid-19 vaccines…. I think it’s going to extend to childhood vaccinations.” A few parents are declining baby shots, and the number of fully vaccinated kindergartners has dropped from 95% to 94% over a year (https://tinyurl.com/mamkk3nf).

Pro-vaxxers blame “grifters” who manage to raise some money, conspiracy theorists, “right-wing” political leanings, and the strategy of emphasizing personal freedom. They ask “how much autonomy any individual should surrender for the greater good and how to apportion risk between individuals and society” (ibid.). There are apparently no inalienable rights.

Vaccines—Greatest Advance and Only Answer?

Sir William Osler wrote that the greatest medical advances were cinchona (source of quinine, of which hydroxychloroquine is a derivative), vaccination, and the principle of  asepsis (surely he would not under-rate sanitation). Very few vaccines (e.g., (smallpox, tetanus, and rabies) had been developed in Osler’s time.

Smallpox is the only disease that vaccination is claimed to have eradicated—and it took 100 years. The original attempt, variolation, was based on the idea of causing a mild case so that the patient would be resistant when encountering a larger inoculum. This was dangerous—if even one organism evaded the immune system, a full-blown case might result. Next, patients were inoculated with a related but less dangerous disease, cowpox, which was observed anecdotally to be protective. Now, live virus vaccines use an attenuated strain made by passage through tissue culture. Since the immune response is generally not strong enough, an adjuvant is added, usually an aluminum compound. Thimerosal, a mercury-containing organic compound once used as a vaccine preservative, has adjuvant as well as disinfecting properties. Adjuvants have a nonspecific stimulating effect on the immune system—which is not well studied and could provoke allergies or autoimmunity.

So what is in vaccines? Never mind “accidental contaminants” like trace amounts of industrial chemicals or peculiar micro-debris. Vaccines are prepared in living cells, which contain a huge number of viruses, including retroviruses. We learned about SV-40 in polio vaccine—after millions got it, but what about others? As to mRNA, exactly what does it code for? And what if they change the formulation? It is impossible to determine.

Even if the initial purpose is laudable and some vaccines achieve that purpose, vaccination is a potential cover for injecting who-knows-what into non-consenting people, directed by powerful institutions that are known to be corrupted, tyrannical, and arrogantly incompetent. The escalation from “individual choice of medical procedure” into mandatory violation of bodily autonomy is built into the mass vaccination concept. Potential sinister motives range from undeserved profits to population control.

For those reasons, vaccine skeptics who are free to act might consider saying, “Yes, I am openly anti-vax; how can anyone be pro-vax after COVID vaccine tyranny? It is too prone to abuse.”

Questions to ask: Do ethical physicians and scientists oppose human sacrifice? (And does that include imposing a risk on one person to protect another?) How about experiments without adequate control groups (such as the use of “placebos” that contain adjuvants)? Lack of rigorous after-market surveillance for long-term effects such as infertility, cancer, chronic disease, developmental disability, and birth defects? Shielding malefactors from liability? Suppressing alternate modalities? Calling dissent “misinformation” and “canceling” dissenters? Depriving people of liberty or property without due process of law?

Anti-vaxxers need to challenge pro-vaxxers to change my mind. Are the above effects acceptable? Have they not occurred or can they not result from mass vaccination?

One public commenter to the NYT article writes: “The COVID situation allowed regular people to realize that that the governments and mainstream news outlets have lied to them, repeatedly and relentlessly. The radical skepticism of the establishment was an inevitable consequence of these sorts of deceptions, and is fully warranted.”


What Vanquished Infectious Disease?

To credit vaccines or antibiotics for the precipitous decline in infectious disease mortality is even worse than assuming that correlation proves causality or falling into the Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc fallacy. Mortality was already in steep decline—in measles, diphtheria, and pertussis before vaccines (tinyurl.com/2s36y3vk), and in tuberculosis, typhoid, scarlet fever, and pneumonia before antibiotics. This was not because of the miracles of modern medicine, but thanks to first-generation public health measures including slum reforms, food and factory inspections, and most importantly, sanitary engineering to safely remove and treat human waste and provide clean water. We are indebted to plumbers, not doctors, for these wonderful results.

Aggressive vaccination programs have failed to eradicate measles. What works better? Toilets (tinyurl.com/5vs6aj98).

This seems counterintuitive for a respiratory disease, but the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), or “Clean India Campaign,” which had the lofty goal of eliminating open defecation, found that for every 1% increase in households in a district with toilets, there are 0.33 fewer measles cases per 1,000 children under age 5. In a few short years, it appears that getting toilets into homes has reduced the burden of measles more than jabbing 80% of Indian children with two doses of measles vaccine in the first two years of life.

Authors of a report in BMJ Open (tinyurl.com/mu2kr2ex) calculated that about 12% of the decline in measles cases is due to a drop in growth stunting caused by environmental enteropathy, which impairs immune function. Availability of toilets may also have enhanced the impact of vitamin A supplementation, which reduces the risk of death from measles by 87% for children under two years of age.

Eradicating measles does not necessarily confer a net health benefit. Getting childhood measles is associated with a lower risk  of dying of cancer at ages 15–60 years, acquiring lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia, developing Parkinson disease, or having allergic disease or asthma, among other possible benefits.

In terms of lives saved, vaccines cannot come close to the record of vector control. DDT is estimated to have saved 500 million lives from malaria alone (tinyurl.com/yckjmdhr).

The U.S. is conducting an uncontrolled experiment in bringing back open defecation in homeless camps, and hampering vector control through rigid environmental regulations.

Prenatal Tests: Chinese Gene Harvesting 

One of the most popular prenatal tests in the world, called NIFTY for Non-Invasive Fetal TrisomY, is the source of genetic and population data for BGI, a company that works in cooperation with the Chinese military. With the aid of artificial intelligence, data from millions of women could be used not only to diagnose genetic diseases but to try to “improve population quality.” Large data sets could expose genetic vulnerabilities to disease in a population, which an adversary could exploit in a targeted genetic attack. Some women prefer to use a different test when they learn about the secondary research done with their DNA—and their child’s (https://tinyurl.com/3j4yytcx).


“The object of persecution is persecution…. The object of power is power.” George Orwell, 1984


Data Related to Viral Origin Suppressed

Questions about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are unanswered, but the National Institutes of Health restricted public access to genetic sequencing data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology at the lab’s request. The documents, obtained  by Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Researchers (EO) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, seem to suggest that the epidemic did not originate in the Huanan market and thus to reinforce claims of some experts that the virus likely escaped from the WIV. The EO report claims that NIH staff members were using off-the-record emails to influence media coverage. Dr. Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins were prominently mentioned (tinyurl.com/3nhec3tu).


Immunofudging on Shots for Kids

In FDA advisory committee hearings on authorizing COVID shots for children under age 5, Pfizer and Moderna used the  “immunobridging” statistical trick to compensate for lack of actual health benefits, writes Toby Rogers, Ph.D. They compared antibody levels in 300 kids (10% of the trial subjects) in each age group against antibody levels in 300 adults ages 18–25 from a previous clinical trial. Antibody levels being similar, Moderna claims, “Therefore it will prevent disease in the future in kids!”

Additional ways of rigging the game included releasing risk benefit documents (190 pages, single-spaced) one to two days before the meeting. “Endless layers of complexity [were added] to hide how bad the data really is.” One “expert” after another acknowledged that there are no “correlates of protection” for these vaccines: “You cannot use antibodies (or B-cells, T-cells, or any other proxy) to predict whether someone is immune or not.”

Eric Rubin, a committee member and the editor of the NEJM stated it bluntly, “We know what kind of antibody response can be generated, we just don’t know if it works.” 

Since data were collected in mid-2021, the Omicron variant has replaced the earlier strains, and neither Moderna nor Pfizer shots are effective against the current variant. 

By fall of 2021, 26 high-quality studies from outside the U.S.  showed a two- to seven-fold increased risk of myocarditis from mRNA shots. FDA, CDC, and Kaiser-Permanente fixers massaged it down to 7% to 50% higher.

“The public health establishment has abandoned science, logic, reason, rationality, empathy, health, and medicine. The FDA is more than happy to sacrifice children in order to ingratiate themselves further with the cartel,” Rogers concludes (https://tinyurl.com/2jrvxc9t).


 AAPS Calendar

June 25. Texas Chapter, Ft. Worth, TX, https://texasaaps.org.

July 9. Missouri Chapter, Lake Ozark, MO, https://moaaps.org/.

October 13–15. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO. https://aapsonline.org/2022am


ACTION OF THE MONTH

The AAPS Educational Foundation offers scholarships to medical students and residents to attend our annual meeting. Have interested persons contact us at aaps@aapsonline.org.


Medical Board Ordered to Void NPDB Entry

In a stunning 8-to-1 decision (tinyurl.com/5evhzna3), the Texas Supreme Court held that the Texas Medical Board must issue a Void Report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), which it had refused to do although Robert Van Boven, M.D., D.D.S., had been exonerated on all accusations (AAPS News, September 2021). Dr. Van Boven has been fighting false accusations for nearly a decade.

“This decision by the Texas Supreme Court establishes a cause of action for physicians to obtain justice for outdated and inaccurate reports about accusations that were never proven,” stated AAPS general counsel Andrew Schlafly.


Doctors Sue over Ivermectin Prohibition

Dr. Robert L. Apter, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, and Dr. Paul E. Marik, represented by Boyden Gray, have sued the Dept. of HHS and the Food and Drug Administration over the FDA’s unlawful attempts to prohibit the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division (Case 3:22-cv-00184).

Dr. Bowden stated: “I provided treatment when other doctors told my patients to stay home. I have kept over 3,900 patients out of the hospital, but it hasn’t been easy. Sadly, fighting the system has been a much bigger challenge than fighting the disease.”

The FDA’s efforts to prevent use of ivermectin “ignore both statutory limits on the FDA’s authority and the significant body of scientific evidence from peer-reviewed research, over 80 medical trials, and results from ivermectin’s use in medical settings worldwide, showing the safe and effective use of the drug in fighting COVID-19,” said Dr. Marik (https://tinyurl.com/4kdxvkvz).

Attempts by the FDA to influence or intervene in the patient-physician relationship amount to interference with the practice of medicine, and breach the critical boundary between federal and state authority, the Complaint argues. As Dr. Apter notes, FDA statements, even if FDA cannot legally enforce them, affect the practice of medicine, which is now highly driven by standards and guidelines (https://tinyurl.com/yd8rp6wf).


Nurse Sentenced for Medical Error

Nurse RaDonda Vaught of Tennessee was sentenced to three years’ probation after being convicted of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse. The charges stemmed from the death of a 75-year-old patient when the nurse inadvertently administered vercuronium instead of Versed, having overridden several alerts. (Nurses typically have to override alerts in the electronic medical record to get anything done.) No mens rea needed to be demonstrated. Vaught could have been sentenced to years in prison. The prospect of error in a dangerous, high-pressure environment being criminalized is causing many nurses to consider a career change (https://tinyurl.com/538ssbdu).

While Nurse Vaught reported her error immediately, though too late for the patient, Vanderbilt University Medical Center failed to notify the medical examiner or CMS as required. Serious system problems were found only when an anonymous tip prompted an unannounced federal inspection a year later (https://tinyurl.com/rdfdepur).


Vaccine Injury Claims

More than 10,000 Australians were planning to file claims for COVID-10 vaccine injuries under the government’s no-fault indemnity scheme last November (tinyurl.com/c3ys6jej), but so far only 861 have done so, and only one has been paid. The scheme covers only clinical conditions that are diagnosed by a treating doctor and are included in the product information document. Patients reported that “there was often resistance from doctors to link their symptoms to the vaccine” (tinyurl.com/53vn3aey).

In the UK, a single tax-free payment of €120,000 is said to be available to persons suffering from a vaccine injury (https://tinyurl.com/6zpwwc8t). As of Feb 27, 920 compensation applications linked with COVID-19 vaccination injury had already been filed, compared with a usual 100 per year, but no payments have been made yet. (https://tinyurl.com/5n8axxnk).


Missouri Protects Right to Prescribe

Despite the fact that it is perfectly lawful to prescribe FDA-approved drugs off-label, many patients have been unable to obtain hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin for COVID-19 because physicians and pharmacists are intimidated by threats to their licensure. The Missouri legislature passed, nearly unanimously, a law protecting the right to prescribe and dispense these drugs (https://tinyurl.com/4wfvt64e).

Tip of the Month: Hospital mergers result in a loss in price transparency. Decreased competition makes it more difficult for patients to find out what services will cost. Despite hospitals’ complaints about reduced business due to COVID-19, in an increasing percentage (now 16%) of mergers the acquired hospital had billion-dollar revenues. Fortunately, some independent hospitals are refusing to be acquired by a big hospital chain, so the number of mergers decreased despite their increased size. Patients and physicians are better off with more independent hospitals.


Hospital Monopolies Sued

Three giant hospital systems are being challenged for anti-competitive behavior: HCA Healthcare, Hartford Healthcare Corp., and Advocate Aurora Health. Fairmark Partners LLP is bringing the lawsuits, supported by funding from Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic organization founded by the ex-energy trader John Arnold and his wife Laura.

“I don’t think there’s really any enforcement failure that’s had a larger negative economic impact for consumers than the failure to enforce antitrust laws against hospitals,” said Fairmark’s Brennan Bilberry. “Supporting employers and workers suing hospitals for price gouging and anticompetitive contracting is one way to overcome the imbalance of power in the market,” said Erica Socker, vice president of health care for Arnold Ventures.

Since 2010, there have been 979 deals among hospitals, and by 2016, 90% of the nation’s metropolitan hospital markets were highly concentrated. Formerly locally owned community institutions are now part of vast networks.

Arnold has also announced that his philanthropy “will break the insulin oligopoly by bringing $30 insulin to market” (Wall St J 6/11/22, https://tinyurl.com/3bjjrhxp).


Correspondence

FDA: Ministry of Bias and Illogic. Yet another generic drug to treat early COVID is rejected by the FDA—fluvoxamine. One large randomized controlled trial in Brazil found that those who stuck to the treatment regimen were 66% less likely to be hospitalized and 91% less likely to die. Other drugs the FDA has approved for emergency use authorization (EUA) haven’t done as well. The author of a WSJ editorial writes that there is no evidence that regulators are trying to protect drugmaker profits by limiting access to repurposed generics, but her own op-ed reviews the evidence for this (https://tinyurl.com/wzneaae3).

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Pfizer Trials Stopped Early. When I was an employee in the Trump HHS in August 2020, I wrote a letter to the FDA regarding my concerns that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins were saying they would stop the COVID-19 vaccine trials early and not collect the safety data. I stated the need for at least 500 events to occur if a vaccine trial was to be stopped for benefit. I said that stopping at an event number of 150 or so was devastating and bogus and will be an over-estimation of vaccine effect, and that safety surveillance long term was critical. I sent  this paper to high-level people in government and was told that I had to find a way to withdraw it from circulation. I did not do so, and resigned under threat of being fired (tinyurl.com/ms2ypum8). [Pfizer based its analysis on 170 cases, 162 in the placebo group; there were only 10 severe cases, nine in the placebo group (https://tinyurl.com/2p8v7hw4).]

Paul Elias Alexander, Ph.D., brownstone.org


Public-Private Censorship Partners. Information released by Sen. Grassley’s office regarding a whistleblower document  suggests that the Department of Homeland Security has been  planning to “operationalize” its relationships with private social media companies to implement its public policy goals.  These are not restricted to foreign disinformation but include “conspiracy theories about the validity and security of elections” and “disinformation related to the origins and effects of COVID-19 vaccines or the efficacy of masks.” The Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) was to be much more than a simple “working group” to develop guidelines and standards, but rather was designed to be the Department’s central hub, clearinghouse, and gatekeeper for Administration policy and response to whatever it happened to decide constituted “disinformation”  (https://tinyurl.com/55rrzfa5).

Jeremy Snavely, Tucson, AZ


Loss of Trust. No one believes public health agencies any longer. That public health has acted for a century as if it were entitled by a “noble lie” to its methods for manipulating the public is now shown to be only a lie.  There is nothing noble about pandering to special interests over population health.

Evidence for benefit of early treatment need not be strong. What matters is strong evidence for safety. There is no evidence of harm from hydroxychloroquine used in COVID outpatients, and 65 years of prior safe use. Yet there is a summary relative risk of a five-fold mortality reduction with HCQ in a dozen or more studies of 40,000 subjects. If that isn’t a “striking effect,” then nothing is. But no evidence will be good enough for the scoffers.

Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., New Haven, CT


A Tool for Intellectual Tyranny. In Plato’s Dialogues, Socrates explains how the “Noble Lie” is useful for achieving political harmony. It has been a constant feature of politics and is the foundation of the administrative state, a way to control the populace with the presumption that the elite knows what is best. The motive for the thought police and groupthink mendacity is the thirst for power and control (tinyurl.com/mu6u47b2). 

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


No Thinking Allowed. When the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines engage in war planning, they have a blue team that presents a proposal, and then a red team that tries to tear that proposal apart and search for any weaknesses. The U.S. Public Health Service is officially part of the military, but eschews military best practices and instead requires groupthink and censors unfavorable data. So, we get all of the worst aspects of military hierarchy, but none of the responsibility and commitment to excellence. Event 201 and pandemic preparedness exercises conducted by Johns Hopkins University, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CIA, etc., did not include a red team to identify deficiencies in their carefully prepared scripts.

Toby Rogers, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/j6c8y7jf


Malfeasance in Blocking Early Treatment. Nebraska Attorney General Douglas Peterson’s Opinion (tinyurl.com/2yswskhp) on the use of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 is a stunning exposé of official and medical misconduct. Political commentator Joe Herring called it “one of the most comprehensive summations of profit-driven malfeasance on the part of pharmaceutical companies, public medicine officials and their media allies that I have ever read coming from an official government source” (https://tinyurl.com/2ya54wcj).

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX

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AAPS News June 2022 – Depopulation

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Volume 78, no. 6  June 2022

Even if the majority of our population still believes in it, Paul Ehrlich’s “population bomb” has not only fizzled but is imploding. If something does not change, we will have a situation unprecedented in world history, worse than even the Black Plague, Elon Musk pointed out in 2018. A video based on Our World in Data concerning number of children per woman from 1950 until 2020 shows fertility plummeting everywhere. Almost all the places that exceed replacement level are in Africa (https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay/status/1527722818053586950).

“Reproductive rights” championed by the AMA—and proposed as a fundamental human right by progressive politicians—mean almost exclusively the right not to reproduce. Sexual stimuli are pervasive, promoted even in kindergarten by vendors of “comprehensive sex education”—along with contraception, unlimited abortion, and forms of gratification that cannot produce a child (but can transmit infections that impair fertility).

Many young people do not want to have children, often because they have no hope for the future. Climate change, or pollution, or nuclear war will kill us all, they are told. Economic prospects are dismal. The “smart” future is life in the pod—no self-owned cars, no wide open spaces, every act or thought tracked.

And if there is no future, no frontier, and no opportunity to build or create something new, why work more than necessary to subsist and be entertained? And if there are no children? “Why do men work, says the poet Charles Peguy, if not for their children? The father throws himself away in hope,” writes Anthony Esolen (https://tinyurl.com/bdh2hwsp).

What if we do away with fatherhood, or “patriarchy,” as radical feminists demand? “Think of the hopelessness of the secular world, which has set its face in stubborn self-destruction against the figure of the father,” writes Esolen. “It is not just a gray life without fathers. It is a severely constricted life, bound to the present, not a culture but a mirthless floating along with the suggestions of mass phenomena.”

The global elite desires immortality, not through children, but rather through transhumanism (AAPS News, April 2021). World Economic Forum advisor Yuval Noah Harari claims that humans can gain “divine powers” (https://tinyurl.com/jvk85spv). Would a human cyborg be like the Head in C.S. Lewis’s 1945 novel, That Hideous Strength?

The Inverted Pyramid

An inverted population pyramid will collapse, as Musk pointed out. How will the shrinking number of workers support all the frail elderly? Medicare is already paying out more than it takes in, and digital dollars can’t answer call buttons or turn into bread.

 Was it “culling the herd” to send COVID-infected residents back to nursing homes? Age-related rationing in medical care is alive and well, writes AAPS past president Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D. (tinyurl.com/2pn9kv99).

U.S. life expectancy is at its lowest in 25 years, having fallen by 1.5 years in 2020 (https://tinyurl.com/2p9ywwn6), and continuing to fall in 2021. COVID is only part of the explanation and does not account for an alarming increase in death rates of working age people coinciding with COVID vaccine rollouts (AAPS News, March 2022). In a CNN interview, FDA chief Robert Califf, M.D., said that American lives are, on average, 5 years shorter than in other high-income countries, and that “misinformation” is the leading cause of death—regarding heart disease and other big killers as well as COVID. No one who is completely up to date on injections and gets the new antivirals should die of  COVID, he claims (tinyurl.com/2s44eeck).

Dr. Califf is former head of medical strategy at Google parent company Alphabet, and has worked closely with many pharmaceutical companies, including Merck and AstraZeneca.

Global elitists are more concerned about absolute numbers, not age distribution, and the total is about seven times more than our fragile planet can sustain, they say. Either we cut carbon emissions (achievable only by measures that will cut population) to prevent climate change, or climate change will cause mass death.

Dennis Meadows of the Club of Rome says he hopes we can achieve the needed depopulation (down to about 1 billion) by “civil (nonviolent) means”—he hopes by slow and “relatively equal” means. We can have 8 or 9 billion only with a strong dictatorship and much reduced consumption (tinyurl.com/pwtran8j).

Anti-COVID and anti-“climate change” policies are surely making the middle class more equal to government-dependent welfare recipients and less able to resist. A huge wealth transfer from small business to multinational corporations has occurred. The Woke professional managerial class in government agencies, academia, media, and corporations is doing fine—for now.

Will the “people rise up”? Yellow Vests were in the streets for 3 years, and Macron got re-elected. Canadian truckers and any who supported them are being financially ruined by Trudeau.

Successful revolts, such as the American Revolution, don’t come from the proles, but from elites with means, who fight on principle or because their own interests are threatened. The greatest threat to the global Left is men like Donald Trump or Elon Musk, who can afford the fight and are too rich to be bought, at least not with money. Where are our right-minded elites?

We may soon see massive depopulation from sickness, sudden death, infertility, and starvation. The result is the intention.


The ‘LGBTsQewing of America’

According to a February 2022 Gallup poll, about 20% of Generation Z (born 1997–2003) now identify as LGBTQ, as do 7% of Americans as a whole, double the rate in 2012. This is part of the solution to the “mystery” of the declining birth rate.

This shows that, “as history and science convincingly demonstrate,” sexuality is “highly malleable and amenable to social cues, norms, and proscriptions”—not biologically determined as advocates insist, writes attorney Alexander Zubatov. He states that what has occurred is a predictable result of the “undermining of all erstwhile sources of stability and meaning.” Self-centered individuals are on a “hedonic treadmill,” with society degenerating into a “spinning centrifuge unceremoniously hurling more and more of us outward toward irreconcilable opposite poles.” To save our young, we must “re-enchant our traditions…that the counterculture has done its utmost to uproot” (https://tinyurl.com/4wc7uwtc).

One commenter noted that we are witnessing deliberate social engineering—not with graphene or nano-chips, but with the skewing of education and culture. In a Christian culture, reproduction is naturally robust. The culture of “uneducated bigoted hillbillies” is being replaced by cosmopolitan modernism where people are self-absorbed and detached from reality. Population control has been surreptitiously achieved for “people of Pallor” who might be troublesome to the ruling Woke elite.


Elon Musk Gets Mad

Words from the 1976 movie Network sound eerily prescient. News anchor Howard Beale told his viewers: “I don’t have to tell you things are bad…. Everybody’s out of work, or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the street…. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad!”

After making a buyout bid for Twitter, Elon Musk, reputedly the world’s richest man, got the right to examine the books. Unhappy Twitter employees started to out themselves as operatives of the Democratic Party. Musk learned that the Left’s  diversity sloganeering is a sham, and that what he thought was the kindness party is the party of division and hate. He suggested he might start voting Republican, and, as he predicted, the far Left’s hatestream against him commenced (tinyurl.com/yckkhzhm).


FDA’s ‘Future Framework’ for COVID Vaccines

No more clinical trials will ever be needed for COVID vaccines if FDA adopts the proposed framework, which is modeled on the procedure for influenza vaccines. Every year a new formulation is approved and deemed “safe and effective” because it is “biologically similar” to existing shots. Toby Rogers, Ph.D., calls this “the most reckless idea in the history of public health. It shows that the FDA has completely abandoned science and its…duty to protect the public” (tinyurl.com/29ekp5yv).


“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.” —Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)


‘Mysterious’ Hepatitis

Spain’s Health Ministry sounded the alarm about 650 cases of acute hepatitis worldwide, with no epidemiologic connection (https://tinyurl.com/pdjnbx5u). In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Hepatology, Hersh Shroff et al. report a case series of 16 patients with post-COVID-vaccination liver injury. Authors write:  “We emphasize that our intent is not to promote vaccine hesitancy. The overwhelming benefits of these and other highly efficacious vaccines in the setting of a global pandemic greatly surpass any potential risk of liver injury that may exist (https://tinyurl.com/ycku3f9k). (Also see p 4.)

“Hepato-symptom laundering?” asks Jessica Rose, Ph.D. She notes that 60,442 liver-related adverse events had been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as of May 27 (https://tinyurl.com/ybayrs7y).

Consumers are warned to discard organic strawberries that may be linked to cases of hepatitis A (so far, 12 hospitalizations and no deaths or transplants) (https://tinyurl.com/pvs3c9nd).


Vaccine Efficacy

The FDA vaccine efficacy threshold should be lowered to below 50%, proposes Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) (https://tinyurl.com/m2daxaer). Though the number is “fluid,” Pfizer and Moderna are claiming efficacy of 80% in children under 5 years old, ahead of a Jun 15 meeting. “Is the FDA seriously considering basing national policy, that impacts 18 million children, by relying on a study with only 10 cases?” asks Toby Rogers, who also notes that nearly all children have natural immunity by now (tinyurl.com/bp7268vm).

Vaccine efficacy falls rapidly with time (tinyurl.com/56rfnvuc), and some suggest that it reaches 0% or even negative efficacy (tinyurl.com/48nf99rs). The “well-run” Pfizer trial used to claim 90+% efficacy is riddled with flaws and alleged fraud, writes statistician Mathew Crawford: “the house of cards shakes” (https://tinyurl.com/5cua89f2). The vaccine may impair long-term immunity by reducing neutralizing anti-nucleocapsid antibodies (https://tinyurl.com/yckhm9dt).

In the real world, Portugal, which has virtually no one left to vaccinate, has had multiple waves of COVID; currently, about 30 people (the equivalent of 1,000 Americans) die every day. In Oklahoma, about half vaccinated, nearly 80% of COVID hospitalizations in mid-May were in partly or fully vaccinated patients. Some health departments have stopped breaking out COVID reports by vaccine status (tinyurl.com/27bmbjs4).


 AAPS Calendar

June 25. Texas Chapter, Ft. Worth, TX, https://texasaaps.org.

July 9. Missouri Chapter, Lake Ozark, MO, https://moaaps.org/.

October 13-15. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.


ACTION OF THE MONTH

Congress falsely claims that HR 6833 will reduce the cost of insulin. Ask the Senate to reject this phony measure and instead end kickbacks, the main culprit. https://p2a.co/9aO0Meq


Special Districts, Special Privileges

The Florida legislature, in response to Disney World’s  criticism of the state law to protect schoolchildren from LGBT indoctrination, dissolved its unaccountable kingdom, the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which was created in 1967 so Disney could control its affairs without interference from voters.

In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt urged the formation of special districts to skirt laws that limited local debt or required voter referendums to issue debt. There are now more than 38,000. After the tax revolt in the 1970s, they became a convenient way for government to escape new limitations on taxes. They have increased spending faster than other types of government because voters don’t know how to stop them; collectively, they spend more than $200 billion a year. In Nassau County, N.Y., 140 different special districts cost the average homeowner $1,000 a year in property taxes. Such districts do almost everything a city can do, but without most of the constraints. (Wall St J 4/25/33, https://tinyurl.com/2p9h3nax).

If the cancellation is fully implemented, Disney will be subject to county zoning and regulatory agencies, such as building codes and highway requirements.

Perhaps Reedy Creek won’t be the last to be brought to heel.


Administrative State Loses One

In Jarkasy v. SEC, “the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just handed the administrative state its head on a platter,” states AAPS secretary Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D. “No more can these administrative agencies try cases in their own administrative tribunal where they act as prosecutor, judge, and jury. The Court reapplied the ‘chains of the Constitution’ to bind them down.”

George Jaskasy, a hedge fund founder and investment adviser, was accused, convicted, and sentenced for securities fraud for allegedly inflating the value of assets. The Dodd-Frank Act allows the Securities and Exchange Commission to use its own tribunal. The Court ruled that this violates the right to a trial by jury and the separation of powers doctrine. The ruling applies only to the SEC but could encourage challenges to other independent agencies. If appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court it might threaten the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor  precedent that upheld limitations on the President’s ability to remove members of bipartisan independent agencies (WSJ 5/22/22, https://tinyurl.com/3webkbyu).


COVID Vaccine Litigation

Pfizer moves to dismiss lawsuit brought by whistleblower Brook Jackson concerning alleged clinical trial fraud (tinyurl.com/mr273p4z), claiming that usual rules don’t apply in  agreements executed under the defense department’s Other Transaction Authority (OTA) (tinyurl.com/58fwx2dm).

FAA, DOT, and 18 airlines are to be sued over employee mandates that violate constitutional rights to medical and religious liberties (https://tinyurl.com/f82wrpkf).

More than 500 servicemembers filed suit in in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over the government’s mandating a vaccine that was not FDA approved and could not be administered legally: Wilson v. Austin, Case 4-22-cv-00438 (https://tinyurl.com/awz7knpd).

Tip of the Month: Some of the onerous COVID-19 vaccination requirements are quietly expiring, and it is worth checking your own state regulations. For example, Rhode Island imposed a mandatory COVID vaccination requirement on health care workers beginning Oct 21, 2021. But that requirement expired in March, and the left-leaning state replaced it with a masking requirement instead. This enables physicians and others in Rhode Island who declined to be vaccinated to begin working again, albeit while being told to wear an N95 mask when in contact with patients.


‘Disinformation’ Patrols

The Biden Administration’s controversial “Minitrue,” the Disinformation Governance Board (tinyurl.com/3v46e9pa), has been “paused,” but organizations such as the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) are there to hold doctors accountable.

ABIM president Richard Baron stated: “We’re not regulating speech. People can say whatever they want, but as the [ABIM], we have an interest in being sure that our credential means something and that people who hold it are differentiated from people who don’t hold it.” He is apparently threatening to decredential doctors for statements made in a legislative hearing or court proceeding, if ABIM somehow determines them to be clearly false, egregious, or “crossing the line” (https://tinyurl.com/ycktjjzt).

At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki reassured the elites that BigTech will continue to control the narrative. The weaponization of information has been going on for at least 5 or 6 years. “I think we’ve come a long way,” she said. “If…you do a search…,when it comes to sensitive topics, you’re going to see them coming from more authoritative sources” (tinyurl.com/4saw69v8).


Disinformation Kills

The narrative is that vaccines are “safe and effective” but CO2 is deadly. The Dept. of Health and Human Services has asked “healthcare stakeholders” to take the pledge to “At a minimum, reduce organizational emissions by 50% by 2030…and achieve net-zero by 2050, publicly accounting for progress on this goal every year” (https://tinyurl.com/2p9ytmjz).

The result of this narrative is that millions of people are likely to starve to death in the next year. “Inflation, particularly of fossil fuels, and the crop failures caused by lack of fertilizers (again, exacerbated by lack of fossil fuels), will mean mass starvation,” writes Kurt Schlichter. Regime adherents are not willing to do “what it will take to derail the death train roaring down the tracks.” He attributes this to their “pagan climate religion” and the power they get from denying others access to fuel. The result is “not happenstance but a plan”  (tinyurl.com/3vp8ecp3).


Big Pharma News

PharmaMar CEO José María Fernández Sousa-Faro, along with 2,200 others, was accused by Spanish police of buying fake COVID vaccine passports (https://tinyurl.com/2p9casm8).

“A big demand problem” is causing Moderna to dump 30 million unwanted COVID-19 vaccine doses. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told WEF of 7 billion “surplus” doses in warehouses (https://tinyurl.com/yckzbm7r).


Correspondence

King Fauci?  The Doctor Who Would Be King, reviewed in the Wall St J (https://tinyurl.com/3dva8zwk), is likely the dream book of progressives/liberals/socialists. Dr. Jean Joseph David became known as “King David” in French Cameroon in 1939–1944. His task was to “reinvent a new society based on healthy foundations,” encapsulating the idea of a “civilizing mission,” a “fundamental principle” of European colonialism. France was treating an African tract as a laboratory where modern medicine could show “its capacity to transform society and cultivate life.” David’s methods were brutal. Dr. Fauci might envy his power.

The review notes that the French super-doctor ended his career in a suburb of Paris as a medical sales rep for a drug company. Once a king in a Conradian Heart of Darkness, “he petered out in the heart of drabness.”

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


70 Years of Brainwashing. We already live in an advanced cultural Marxist society even though half of the country is still lulled in the false sense that we are still a Constitutional Republic. The globalists have transformed young generations into pliable communist drones. People whisper to their friends that they do not like what is going on, but they are too afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs or licenses, or of public shaming and ridicule. Generations of children have been B.F. Skinner’s lumps of clay who have been shaped into citizens who hate their own country. Today they fly the Ukrainian flag in support of a country they know nothing about, determined to defend its borders, language, and culture from afar while they are content with their own American culture being destroyed from within.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/29nrdst2


Excise Political Loserdom. Why do conservatives always  compromise their position to the point of surrender? Want to lose an argument or a societal conflict? Just accept the loser position and consider it to be more civilized or even-tempered. Allow the enemy to decide the rules, the field of conflict, and the definition of terms (https://tinyurl.com/4wv6mhmp). Remember that the left never concedes and always fights to win.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


The Mainspring of Disinformation. During my short stay in D.C. I was told by high-level people at CDC, NIH, and FDA that their aim with each announcement was to “make the U.S. unmanageable and ungovernable under Trump.” They released bogus CDC reports on COVID deaths, suppressed reports of daily suicides in children, and misled Trump on the effects of lockdowns and of the fraud vaccine, which they knew had huge problems of safety and effectiveness. It was all about forcing every man, woman, and child on the globe to take the vaccine. Almost all the media worked in unison with the insiders, the politicians, and the deep-state bureaucracy. They hated Trump so much and did not care about the U.S. There is no negotiating with these people. Trump should have never ever played nice. They savaged him for it; he did not know they repay decency in D.C. with more hate and brutality. They win at all costs, and they will destroy the nation to get their way—look around you.

Nothing on COVID by CDC, NIH, Health Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)—nothing was based on data or science. So-called experts were corrupted, inept, illogical, irrational, sloppy, and reckless. We need a proper public legal inquiry, and if we find that any did wrong and that their decisions cost lives, they must be held accountable. I want an acute focus on vaccines in children. I think people know that children will die, but they do not care. Their careers, grants, and fame are more important.

Paul Elias Alexander, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/mr2j7sct


 A 1989 Inflection Point? According to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in an interview with Mike Tyson (https://tinyurl.com/sr7zfwuy), if you were born before 1989, your chance of having a chronic disease is 12%. If you were born after 1989, it’s 54%. In 1989, the CDC packed multiple doses of several more vaccines into the childhood schedule. Every one of the injuries that have become an epidemic is listed as a side effect on the manufacturer’s inserts of the 72 vaccine doses that are now mandated for our children.

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


Autoimmune Hepatitis. Yet another scientific article points to the danger of current COVID vaccines given to children, and  is another reason I believe mandates for these vaccines for children should be criminal. Just a few weeks after the rollout of this vaccine for children, WHO issued a global alert about higher than usual rates of hepatitis in previously healthy children, after ruling out the common viral causes. Many cases were so severe the patients required a liver transplant or died. The Journal of Hepatology (tinyurl.com/2p98twab) reported a case showing that “COVID-19 vaccination can elicit a distinct T cell-dominant immune-mediated hepatitis.” The American Academy of Pediatrics, CDC, FDA, et al. are going to create ever-increasing mistrust (justifiably), the longer they ignore a rising mountain of evidence.

Bose Ravenel, M.D., F.A.A.P., Winston-Salem, NC

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AAPS News May 2022 – The Narrative in Organized Medicine
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Volume 78, no. 5  May 2022

Many (most?) Americans are apparently becoming NPCs.

A feature of video games, the non-player character says whatever the computer algorithm directs. The NPC meme, based on the Wojak meme, appeared on 4chan in July 2016, with this description of the type of person the meme represents: “If you get in a discussion with them it’s always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments. They’re the kind of people who make a show of discomfort when you break the status quo like by breaking the normie barrier to invoke a real discussion. It’s like in a when you accidentally talk to somebody twice and they give you the exact lines word for word once more.”

The meme is a gray head with a blank stare and a triangular nose. One Twitter post depicted the robot head being opened and the old chip (such as COVID pandemic) being replaced by the latest Current Thing (at this moment Ukraine). Other chips are for climate crisis, systemic racism, LGBTQ rights, unrestricted abortion (“reproductive health”), and disparities.

Having attended nearly every House of Delegates meeting of the Arizona Medical Association (ArMA) for about 30 years, your editor has observed the progression described by Minnesota physicians (p 4). At this year’s meeting, held by Zoom for the third time, the NPCs  seemed to me to be clearly in the majority.

The 22 resolutions, mostly Woke, came primarily from the Medical Students Section. No individual claimed authorship; they were likely lifted from the AMA, with lengthy, referenced “whereas” clauses. The reference committee recommended adoption. The few extracted from the consent agenda passed 80 to 20.

Unanswered questions: What will the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee do with $5,000 (the only fiscal note in the resolutions)? What is its measure of success? [No, there will not be discrimination against straight white men, and it is not like the old Jewish quotas.] Does “gender affirmation” include surgery or off-label use of dangerous drugs like puberty blockers in minors?

ArMA has, with few objections, changed its “aggressively neutral” position on abortion. Now it can simply say abortion is “essential to reproductive health” when opposing any legislation that might decrease the number of abortions, instead of contriving a reason such as “interference with the patient-physician relationship.” If it loses members, so what; it may gain more.

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was the most contentious issue. Dedicated physicians have been fighting valiantly to prevent the AMA from dropping its opposition and taking a neutral position. ArMA committees have also been debating this for years, and the division of opinion has been about 50:50 (AAPS News, August 2018). Proponents may acknowledge the potential slippery slope, but deny the existence of problems in Oregon, Canada, or Europe (AAPS News, August 2019). They do not see a red line, an absolute moral prohibition against prescribing lethal medicines to end a patient’s life, but only a discussion of the acceptable conditions. As with abortion, what is permissible may become “essential,” and supposed conscience protections may prove meaningless. The ArMA resolution was referred to a task force to be appointed by the incoming president and instructed to report within 6 months.

No Right to Dissent

Only one resolution received a “do not pass” recommendation: one that the AAPS board of directors will present at our upcoming annual meeting (p 2). One discussant said it was like saying “the sky is blue,” as doctors already have freedom. Another said that freedom has limits—we need to protect against “harmful misinformation.” It was “referred,” likely to be memory holed.

The takeover by cultural Marxists is virtually complete. They have discovered that they only need a small majority to rule. In Western democracies convincing 51% is as good as convincing 99%. But the Narrative can be implemented without a majority; all that is needed is to convince the brainwashed college graduates whose connections and status will propel them into leadership positions in academia and industry. They will be selected, not elected. They cannot be voted out and can choose not to follow the orders of elected officials—and can cancel people who do not obey them. So far the right-wing upper middle class is going along.

In 1924 American billionaire James B. Duke established the Duke University Endowment and virtually built from scratch a brand new conservative university on par with the Northern Ivy League Sisters. This plan worked until the 1960s when cultural Marxists imported from Europe cannibalized academia from the inside. Since then conservatives abandoned academia and professional managerial institutions. Duke University like others fell into the hands of the enemy. While important smaller institutions have been founded, no one has undertaken to challenge Harvard and other established elites (https://tinyurl.com/bddzfyns).

The average middle-class conservative employed in a relatively secure industry, living in a sheltered conservative community, is content—until he has to go to a university hospital and be treated as a “bigot” by Woke students and residents, or finds out that his daughter is scheduled for an “affirming mastectomy.”

Conservatives are cheering that Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and leftists are in a panic about the possibility that free speech might be allowed, even in 240 characters.

Will that suffice to destroy false Narratives? As the late Nino Camardese, M.D., said: “Truth + 1 = a majority.”


Slippery Slope—or Moral Cliff?

Proponents of medical aid in dying generally reject the slippery-slope argument by claiming that safeguards work or that one should not deny some patients this relief just because abuse might happen (tinyurl.com/5fhvsbwp). But once the premise is accepted that physicians may ethically kill their patients, medicine is fundamentally changed. Then, “the progression from death-on-demand to death-at-doctors’-discretion makes a grim kind of sense.” As Justice Neil Gorsuch pointed out, “physician-assisted suicide always relies on the physician to make the fatal decision.”

“Compassionate motives don’t make something morally right, nor can they prevent horrifying abuses of human dignity.” It’s a drop off a moral cliff. “Once death is a treatment option, patients can no longer trust their doctors, their insurance companies, or even their families to have their best interests at heart” (https://tinyurl.com/4frkwpeu).


COVID Shots Suppress Immunity

The safety signals for COVID jabs are “out of sight,” write Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., Peter McCullough, M.D., and others. An Indian study suggested that the shots might suppress the innate immune system by inhibiting type-1 interferon. The mRNA in the shot is modified to look more like human RNA rather than viral, so it persists longer and does not trigger the interferon pathway. Worse, the pathway is actively suppressed by the large number of spike proteins produced and by the microRNAs in the exosomes released by the stressed immune cells. Peptide sequences in antibodies produced by the jab may result in autoimmune disease through molecular mimicry. Associated neurologic problems include tremors, tinnitus, Bell palsy, and migraines related to trigeminal nerve inflammation. We might see an explosion in Parkinson disease, demyelinating disease, Alzheimer’s, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (https://tinyurl.com/muyymnmk).

A detailed description of the mechanisms emphasizes their importance in cancer suppression (tinyurl.com/mt6w7m5h).


Florida Warning on Transgender Therapy

In a Department of Health statement, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said: “Current evidence does not support the use of puberty blockers, hormone treatments or surgical procedures for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria.” The statement notes such treatments have “an unacceptably high risk of doing harm” to minors, and that 80% of children seeking clinical care lose their desire to identify with the “non-birth sex” (https://tinyurl.com/5epa7656).

DOH guidance was praised by Liberty Council, which cited FDA reports of 25,645 “serious” reactions to leuprolide acetate (Lupron), including 6,379 deaths (tinyurl.com/yc8y8yzx). The drug is FDA approved for advanced prostate cancer and precocious puberty, but is being used off-label in children diagnosed with gender dysphoria, despite the absence of peer-reviewed studies on its long-term effects (tinyurl.com/2p9ck3st).


“In the main it will be found that a power over a man’s support (salary) is a power over his will.”

Alexander Hamilton


Free Debate and Physician Prescribing

Resolution to be presented at AAPS annual meeting:

WHEREAS:

Science is a method for seeking truth, not a dogmatic creed handed down by approved experts;

Experts have been proved wrong, and what was a minority or individual opinion proved correct many times;

Science requires free, open debate;

There are enormous conflicts of interest involving experts and the pharmaceutical industry;

Physicians undergo rigorous training that equips them to independently evaluate evidence;

The randomized controlled trial is not the only kind of evidence; is itself subject to bias and other flaws; and is often unavailable, especially for a newly recognized disease;

[Under the Hippocratic ethic, the physician] has pledged to “prescribe regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone”;

The ethical physician places patients first;

Physicians may be subject to severe pressure from employers, hospitals, insurers or others to conform to a protocol that may not be in the best interest of an individual patient;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT:

AAPS supports the right and duty of physicians to prescribe according to their own best judgment, with the commitment to do no harm to anyone, and defends this right in its positions on legislation, regulation, hospital medical staff bylaws, or licensure board actions.


Students for Total Transformation

No fringe organization, White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) has more than 70 chapters at U.S. medical schools. It claims that “dominant medical practice in the United States has been built on the dehumanization and exploitation of Black people.” Ridding the medical system of this allegedly pervasive racism requires “dismantling anti-Black racism, white supremacy, capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy,” and also “dismantling fatphobia,” embracing “Black queer feminist praxis,” and “unlearning toxic medical knowledge.” WC4BL blames “the professionalization of the medical field” for the utilization of “violence” to “oust women and femme healers.” The Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) recent guide to anti-racism planning highlights WC4BL by name, and many medical schools approve of WC4BL’s demands and incorporate them in their curriculum (https://tinyurl.com/2ts4v9c2).


 AAPS Calendar

June 25. Texas Chapter, Ft. Worth, TX, https://texasaaps.org.

July 9. Missouri Chapter, Lake Ozark, MO, https://moaaps.org/.

October 13-15. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.


Does the Nuremberg Code Apply?

While often referred to in the context of vaccine mandates, the Nuremberg Code has never been codified in U.S. law. In the years immediately following the Nuremberg war crimes trials, most commentators believe the influence of the Code in the U.S. was imperceptible. The prevailing view was that the medical defendants were Nazis first and last; by definition nothing they did was relevant to the U.S. Their conduct was so extreme “as to have little or no bearing on civilized people who conducted scientific research according to their consciences.” The longstanding tradition of medical ethics embodied in the Oath of Hippocrates was regarded as a generally adequate basis upon which the medical profession could police itself (tinyurl.com/9ddrcbdf).

In 1952, a Pentagon lawyer recognized the Code as good law that applied to the U.S. Department of Defense. However, courts have viewed it as being superseded by national security concerns. In 1966, Dr. Henry Beecher published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine contending that there were numerous examples of the abuse of human subjects in the published medical literature. The Tuskegee study in the 1960s and 1970s forcefully showed the need for concern. The Code was influential and has contributed to a “growth in moral perception”  (ibid.).

In the case of Abdullahi v. Pfizer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit wrote in 2009 that “states throughout the world have shown through international accords and domestic law-making that they consider the prohibition on nonconsensual medical experimentation identified at Nuremberg as a norm of customary international law.” The  case concerned Pfizer’s testing an antibiotic in Nigerian children, resulting in many deaths and serious injuries. The court concluded in a 2-to-1 decision that jurisdiction existed under the Alien Tort Statute (tinyurl.com/yrz2vzwj), and Pfizer eventually settled for $75 million.

The opinion noted: “As Justices of the Supreme Court have recognized [in U.S. v. Stanley], ‘[t]he medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable.’”

Also, “the fact that the prohibition on medical experimentation on humans without consent has been consciously embedded by Congress in our law and reaffirmed on numerous occasions by the FDA demonstrates that the United States government views the norm as the source of a binding legal obligation.”


Federal Judge Strikes Down CDC Mask Mandate

  Citing violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, federal district court judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mandate requiring travelers to wear masks on airplanes and other forms of public transportation in Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Biden (https://tinyurl.com/mr33rtm4).

The CDC failed to give the required notice-and-comment period. “At the time when the CDC issued the mandate, the COVID-19 pandemic had been ongoing for almost a year and COVID-19 cases were decreasing,” Judge Mizelle wrote. “This timing undercuts the CDC’s suggestion that its action was so urgent that a thirty-day comment period was contrary to the public interest.” Moreover, she wrote that the mandate exceeds the agency’s statutory authority, for which it cites the Public Health Services Act of 1944. Forcing individuals to wear a face mask does not meet any reasonable definition of “sanitation.”

“Before COVID, the CDC had really played more of…[an] advise and consent role to the state public health authorities. It had never before…said we’re going to…directly dictate how people can conduct themselves and…use their property,” said Brant Hadaway, an attorney for the plaintiffs (tinyurl.com/ymmdsf54).

The Dept. of Justice has appealed the ruling, even though the mandate has expired, “to preserve the government’s public health authorities” (https://tinyurl.com/4tuemu7d).

Airlines are offering refunds to some passengers who don’t want to be on a flight with an unmasked person. So far, few requests have been received (https://tinyurl.com/y66j2pz8).

Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., writes that “We’re Toying with a Ruinous End to COVID Travel Masking” and “CDC’s powers to protect the public during health emergencies hangs in the balance.” He compares the unprecedented power to force healthy people to wear a mask to the long-held power to detain persons  infected with smallpox, tuberculosis, or Ebola. “The judge’s opinion literally handcuffs the CDC” (tinyurl.com/ycks47ew).


Conscience Rights Hang in the Balance

The Biden administration is preparing to scrap a Trump-era rule that allows medical workers to refuse to provide services that conflict with their religious or moral beliefs. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said: “HHS has made clear through the unified regulatory agenda that we are in the rulemaking process.” The conscience rule, unveiled in 2018 and finalized in 2019, was blocked by federal courts and has never been implemented. It would have allowed doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists, and other medical workers to refuse to provide abortions, contraception, “gender-affirming” care, vasectomies or any procedure to which they object (https://tinyurl.com/ykc746ay). Refusal to do an abortion or to treat a minor with off-label hormones might be called “discrimination.”


The Law on Off-Label Prescribing

Off-label prescribing is perfectly lawful. In general office-based practice, 21% of prescriptions are off-label, and 40% to 80% of recipients of commonly prescribed psychotropic medications are receiving these medications off-label. With antidepressants, more than 80% of off-label prescriptions had no strong evidence of efficacy for the indication, and there is significant risk of adverse drug events. The statutory and regulatory framework affecting off-label prescription and especially anything that might be construed as “promotion” is very complex. Physicians need to familiarize themselves with the rules (tinyurl.com/zstnkujz).


Tip of the Month: Hospitals exploit employment contracts to impose sham peer review, thereby circumventing the bylaws. Sometimes hospitals enter into a one-sided contract with a group of physicians, and the group contracts with individual physicians including a termination-without-cause provision. When the hospital wants to exclude a physician who stands up for patients, the hospital CEO merely calls the group CEO and tells him to terminate the physician. Avoiding employment contracts, particularly ones that allow termination without cause, is preferable.


Correspondence

Scarred Hearts. The CDC reassured the public that sufficient time had passed to conclude that there are no significant long-term adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. “Long-term” had not occurred yet, and they knew it. Just another lie. Now, young healthy boys are scarred and injured for life. A follow-up study (tinyurl.com/3struzhc) of patients 18 or younger, who had been treated for cardiac inflammation within a week of the second dose of the Pfizer jab, showed that nearly 70% had persistent late gadolinium enhancement on MRI three to eight months after they were first examined—even though most patients appeared to respond to treatment (https://tinyurl.com/3pc3f6nw).

A Nordic cohort study (JAMA, tinyurl.com/zmd85fp7) showed that the rate of myocarditis/pericarditis in persons receiving Comirnaty™ was 5 times that of the unvaccinated; for Spikevax™,  the risk was 15 times higher. Nordic countries have halted the use of the Moderna product (Spikevax), but researchers write that benefits outweigh the risks (tinyurl.com/2p8men9k).

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Record Deaths in Young Athletes. Tragic events are hampering the joy of spectator sports. Even the media can’t hide players suffering cardiac arrest on the game field, shortly after receiving a COVID jab. Football giants, soccer stars, tennis pros—hundreds of them are being forced to end their careers because they took the shot (https://tinyurl.com/bdzfur63). 

Steve LaTulippe, M.D., Salem, OR


Who Is to Blame for Price Hikes? The Biden administration is blaming Vladimir Putin for March’s 8.5% year-over-year increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). But prices were surging long before Russian troops entered Ukraine. The previous excuse was “greedy corporations.” The main culprit is actually the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented spree of money creation. The welfare-warfare-fiat money system will end. We don’t know when, or whether it will be replaced by an even more authoritarian government or by a return to limited, constitutional government.

Ron Paul, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/7n73nzpp


Wokeness. How did “monolithic theology,” the mixture of morality with consumerism that favors preferred business and political interests, get into medicine? How and why did the Minnesota Medical Association convert from representative physician advocacy to woke corporate ideology? As Vivek Ramaswamy, author of Woke, Inc., writes: “The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America’s elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment when we as Americans lack both.” Most American physicians are now at risk as employees of woke corporations. As such they are enmeshed without power in the politics of a woke-industrial complex. A final solution for MMA was to disband the House of Delegates.

Lee Beecher, M.D., Maple Grove, MN


The Source. I think that the genesis of medicine’s adopting the “woke” ideology comes from the World Health Organization final report that came out in 2008: “Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health,” narratives constantly cited by the AMA  and MMA. The assumption is that all health outcome differences are created by the doctors or the system. It is racist to believe otherwise. Not only the usual suspect institutions, but science and medicine too, are in the grip of a monolithic theology. Woke medical students believe that only government can overcome the inequities. I expect our federal constitutional republic to become an authoritarian non-democratic government within my lifetime. 

Robert Koshnick, M.D., Detroit Lakes, MN 


The Way We Were. Until the time of COVID, I thought that free speech was a fundamental right. Having been assigned core texts like 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, and The Trial and Death of Socrates in fifth grade in the California school system, I believed there was no way anything like that could happen in the U.S. Internet censorship and government-controlled propaganda were unfortunate things that happened to those who lived in China. I believed that physicians were deeply committed to upholding the Oath of Hippocrates, and that doctors had freedom and responsibility to diagnose and treat patients as individuals and were guided by ethical principles codified after WWII in federal law as the “common rule.” Patients had medical autonomy, and informed consent for any medical procedure was ethically critical. Dissent and discussion was a time-honored tradition with a long history of leading to improvements in medical care. Then everything changed.

Robert W. Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/2cf4epd4


Tyranny of Ideology. Unlike philosophy, which recognizes  reality, ideology rejects common sense in favor of unyielding  belief in the perfectibility of man, explains Thadeus McCotter (tinyurl.com/4p2uf5sv). The first casualty of ideology is truth.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


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AAPS News April 2022 – Death Toll Mounting

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Volume 78, no. 4  April 2022

We know that both soldiers and civilians are tragically dying in Ukraine. War propaganda being what it is, we don’t know the accurate casualty count, but we know the general mechanism of death (explosion, gunshot wound, etc.), and how it might be stopped (make peace). But while people watch the exciting war footage on television, young, healthy people outside the war zone are silently dropping dead, one by one. Why? What to do?

We do not know the number of persons who died from as opposed to with COVID-19. We also don’t know the death count from “friendly fire.” How many died because their social contacts were disrupted or their businesses destroyed? Was any real person’s life actually saved because you couldn’t get a haircut or doctor’s appointment, or is the trade-off in lives purely a guess by self-interested authorities imposing the lockdowns? How many died or will die because of COVID vaccine effects?

There’s a war on, so expect war propaganda. In war, it is unpatriotic or even treasonous to criticize the leaders.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), states Dr. Peter McCullough, is sitting on reports of 24,000 deaths shortly after a COVID injection (tinyurl.com/ms5trsyp). Would deaths of these people be justified, in case mass vaccination might save some other people who might catch the disease from an unvaccinated person? Are they simply the collateral damage of war?

The “winter of severe illness and death” that Biden predicted in December for the unvaccinated did not happen. Raw data from Public Health Scotland show that over the 4-week period ending on Feb 4, deaths per million population in the twice-vaccinated were three times as high as in the unvaccinated, and in the once-boosted were twice as high as in the unvaccinated. After this, PHS stopped releasing such data (https://tinyurl.com/38jeu3m9).

Most of the post-injection deaths have occurred in the first week. However, a second wave of deaths peaking around 180 days in seven states (KY, TN, GA, MI, MN, TX, and FL) is pointed out by researcher Craig Paardekooper. These states have a many-fold higher death rate. In the early peak, cardiac arrest is the most frequent cause of death; in the later, “COVID-19” or possibly misdiagnosed similar illness. Late deaths suggest that a toxin is persisting longer, say by evading the natural immune system, or  is being replaced. Paardekooper states that Pfizer was developing three different types of vaccine, using non-modified RNA, nucleoside-modified RNA that contains pseudouridine (p 2), or self-amplifying RNA (tinyurl.com/3dr2mrrs).

Different vaccine lots also differ greatly in the integrity of the active ingredient, mRNA. In some, only 55% is intact, far below the generally accepted manufacturing standard yet intentionally accepted by regulators, states Sasha Latypova (ibid.).

The extreme variability in adverse event reports between batches, with 1 in 200 lots having more than 1,000 reports in VAERS, suggests that vaccine manufacturers are doing toxic dose range testing without consent, writes James Hill, M.D., J.D.

“Paardekooper’s VAERS analysis should be replicated or refuted by others, including government investigators, as soon as possible” (tinyurl.com/2p94evrm).

In a Pfizer contract with the EU, the section on labeling redacts the phrase “shall not be serialized” from the public version. Making vials untraceable would enable mixing increasing numbers from “hot lots” into safe lots. Then an increasing incidence of heart attacks or strokes could not be attributed to supposedly unchanging vaccines (tinyurl.com/tmwtescj).

The knowing distribution of adulterated or mislabeled products signals intent. Establishing fraud would remove the manufacturers’ liability shield; thus, investigation must be suppressed.

Purging Dissent

U.S. military servicemembers who decline the COVID vaccine or apply for a religious exemption are being terminated regardless of their skill level or natural immune status. Yet commanders are issuing illegal orders in violation of  Army regulations issued in the Sept 14, 2021, Fragmentary Order (FRAGO) number 5, which states: “Commanders will ensure sufficient doses of Department of Defense approved vaccines are on hand and available for their unit.” The Secretary of Defense himself told every servicemember in his Aug 24, 2021, memo that the only vaccines for use will “receive full licensure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in accordance with FDA-approved labeling and guidance.” To date, however, there are no FDA-approved fully licensed vaccines available on any U.S. military installation (https://tinyurl.com/yc5ycvs9). So, the order is ignored.

It is estimated that in these times of escalating world tensions, the U.S. Air Force is already short 2,000 pilots (https://tinyurl.com/mv6wdcax). We do not know how many are or will be disabled by mandated injections. We do know that Russian and Chinese soldiers are not given mRNA vaccines.

Dissenting physicians are being purged (“disciplined”) for mentioning possible adverse effects—as presented by America’s Frontline Doctors’ “Doc Tracy” (tinyurl.com/2p8sjy4r).

Biowarfare?

While there’s talk of biowarfare labs in Ukraine, half the world population may harbor a biologic time bomb. “It’s beyond any shadow of a doubt that the vaccines are causing a large number of deaths,” states Dr. McCullough  (tinyurl.com/2p92v2be).


History Lesson: Cause or Effect?

Angela Merkel may have decided that Russia could never be reconciled with the West based on Putin’s “tirade against the decadence of democracies, whose decay of values, he said, was exemplified by the spread of ‘gay culture’” (tinyurl.com/54e2auz2).

Why is the LGBTQ agenda a litmus test for the Woke West?

Gay culture was a feature in the fall of Greece, the fall of Rome, the French Revolution with Jacobins, and the Weimar Republic. Friedrich Nietzsche, who was an outstanding historian specializing in the history of the culture of ancient Rome and Greece, observed in Twilight of the Idols:

“Church and morality say: ‘A people or a society are destroyed by vice and luxury.’ My revalued reason says: when a people degenerates…, then the result is vice and luxury (that is, the craving for ever stronger and more frequent stimulation necessary to arouse an exhausted nature)…. The newspaper reader says: this party destroys itself by making such a mistake. My higher politics says: a party that makes such a mistake has already reached its end (it is finished)” [trans. by H.B.].


Not Really mRNA

Pfizer, Moderna, and BioNTech claim that the messenger RNA in their products is quickly degraded. However, writes Dr. Robert Malone, it is known to persist for at least 60 days in lymph nodes. In fact, the vaccine mRNA differs from natural mRNA in having pseudouridine randomly incorporated during the manufacturing process. Unlike uridine, pseudouridine can pair with all other bases, not just adenine. This could account for interference with the innate immune response and the reactivation of latent DNA viruses. Failure of regulators to investigate these effects before authorizing widespread use is “appropriately classified as ‘willful ignorance’” (https://tinyurl.com/ycktp47f).

  “I get asked all the time ‘what can I do to eliminate the RNA vaccines from my body,’ to which I have to answer—nothing,” writes Dr. Malone (ibid.).


Do Flu Shots Work?

As Alex Berenson pointed out, the number of flu shots increased from 12 million in 1980 to almost 200 million in 2020, but influenza deaths did not decrease (tinyurl.com/2p84av2w). Difficulties in interpretation include population increase and the definition of an influenza death. Using additional data from Berenson (https://tinyurl.com/46ay923m): In the 1980-1981 flu season, 12 million of the U.S. population of 227 million (5%) got flu shots, and about 20,000 people died from flu (80 per million). In the 2017-2018 flu season, 155 million of 327 million people (47%) got flu shots, and 52,000 died from flu (about 160 per million). This obviously doesn’t prove that flu shots kill people with flu, but it certainly does not show them to be helpful.


“The symbols Russia values most are the Icon and the Axe: Faith and Power…. Her revolution was the search for a new absolute….  In 1917…  the Bolsheviks thought they were at the gates of heaven, but we know now they were at the gates of hell. Evil is never more terrible than when it wears the mask of goodness. Ideology without pity always leads to crime.”

Phillip H. McMath, 2022,  https://tinyurl.com/6fnthwvn


Tricking the Children

Children are often resistant to taking the COVID jabs. More than 70% of COVID shots are received at pharmacies, as fewer people visit doctors, states are permitting pharmacists to administer more shots, and pharmacists have found ways to avoid having screaming children in their aisles. One clinic directed children with colored armbands, identified by their parents as potential screamers, to the “VIP lounge” so they don’t frighten others. The clinic featured live music, jugglers, and vaccinators wearing superhero capes. The post-shot waiting room had a librarian reading stories, a magician, the chance to write a thank-you note to vaccine developers, and a life-size cutout of high priest Anthony Fauci (WSJ 11/23/21, tinyurl.com/3n8maebv).


Mandate Voted Down in Germany

With 76.6% of the country having received at least one jab, more than 200,00 daily new cases of COVID are still reported. The Bundestag rejected a proposal to mandate vaccination for everyone over age 60 by a 378–296 vote. Chancellor Olaf Scholz was disappointed, saying the government will try to persuade more people to get jabbed (https://tinyurl.com/43d299h9).


More Revelations from Pfizer Documents

After getting the EUA (Emergency Use Authorization), Pfizer hired 600 people within 3 months to process adverse event reports and expected to need 1,800 more (tinyurl.com/24cudrbv).

No genotoxicity or carcinogenicity studies were done on RNA LNP-based products (tinyurl.com/yc32mcmy).

The rate of myocarditis was recognized to be as high as 1 in 1,000 in an informed-consent document. A previous study on a smallpox vaccine “suggested an incidence of possible subclinical myocarditis (based on cardiac troponin T elevations) 60-times higher than the incidence rate of overt clinical myocarditis” (https://tinyurl.com/2ayr3pcf).

Pfizer obscured the effects of natural immunity (0 severe cases in either trial or placebo groups with previous infection) by combining patients with and without previous infection in their efficacy analysis (ibid.).

The second document dump reveals that Pfizer deliberately did not tell people that in the initial days post shot they were susceptible to infection—not just from COVID—and should not be out and about. Moreover, in calculating efficacy Pfizer attributed infections during the first 14 days to the unvaccinated. Pfizer and government officials knew that failure to account for the period of negative efficacy is fraud (tinyurl.com/yckhx4xf).


 AAPS Calendar

October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.


It Might Take Just One

From my collection of videos, this one showing a lion attacked by a clan of hyenas (https://tinyurl.com/39r9yj37) is emblematic of sham peer review attacks occurring in hospitals, writes Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D. The attackers pounce on the victim from all angles. But, as the attackers bite him repeatedly and tear at his flesh, another of his kind (representing ethical physicians) enters the scene, and the odds change. The video illustrates that sometimes all it takes to save the victim being attacked by sham peer review is a single person to come to his aid. 

Tip of the Month: Increasingly, federal convictions are based on allegations of false statements to federal agents, rather than underlying conduct. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was a charismatic, popular congressman being investigated for a relatively small $30,000 in campaign contributions, supposedly made illegally by a foreigner. FBI agents from California visited his home as he returned from working to clean up after a big storm. The agents questioned him then and again in a follow-up interview when his attorney was present. Similar contributions by the same foreigner had been made to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and to other politicians. But only Fortenberry was indicted, and then convicted on Mar 24, based on charges that he allegedly made false statements to the federal agents. And his trial was not in Nebraska but in Los Angeles based on the investigation originating there, even though Fortenberry’s attorney repeatedly objected to that venue. Speaking to a federal agent is not required, and restarts the statute of limitations, so why take the risk of being accused of misstating something? If approached by an agent, you might say: “Submit your questions to me in writing so I can have an attorney review them.” Strongly consider not answering questions orally, and maybe not in writing either.


AAPS Files Amicus in United Airlines Case

United Airlines has required that its employees receive a COVID vaccine or be placed on unpaid leave. It also demoted to unpaid leave employees who obtained a religious exemption. Employees sued in Sambrano v. United Airlines. United lost its appeal, and on March 10 filed an unusual motion to vacate the panel opinion against it, or, in the alternative, rehear it en banc. On the same day, United abruptly announced that it will allow the employees who have religious exemptions to return to work, saying that moots this lawsuit.

In its amicus brief supporting UA employees, AAPS writes: “The panel opinion is a landmark ruling against abuse of power under the pretext of public health, and this splendid opinion should be fully published rather than vacated.”

AAPS counsel Andrew Schlafly calls this one of the “watershed opinions” that “reject exploitation of a crisis to infringe on basic rights.” Instead of being withdrawn, it “should become a foundational precedent against similar future violations of individual rights, particularly the unwanted injection of biological agents that have irreversible life-changing effects.”

“By abruptly reversing its position in this case, United has done the equivalent of a U-turn on the runway and this Court should have a healthy skepticism about its explanation from its cockpit,” states Andrew Schlafly. “Are we taking off or landing?” he asks about United’s odd effort to erase an appellate panel’s opinion while also seeking to get it reconsidered by the full court.

The brief notes that United is heavily dependent on Congress for massive subsidies to the airline industry that totaled $54 billion for COVID prior to this year, and thus United is hardly a mere independently acting “private firm” as it claims.

AAPS writes (https://tinyurl.com/5n8nssvc) that:

Vaccine mandates are an alarming gateway to promote public allowance of abortion (through use of fetal cells in mandated vaccines), infringe on parental rights (the D.C. law at issue in Booth v. Bowser…), violate the patient-physician relationship (by overriding physicians who advise against the vaccine), erode private medicine (by revoking medical licenses of physicians who speak publicly against a mandated vaccine), control the right to assemble (through vaccine passports), and limit the ability to earn a living (as shown in this case). In essence, United booked a ticket on this flight to tyranny, whether intentionally or not. Fortunately, United’s flight landed before its ill-fated destination. Time to deboard….


D.C. Vaccine Mandate Enjoined

 Minors aged 11 and up in Washington, D.C, are temporarily no longer eligible to receive vaccines without parental knowledge or consent after a federal court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction against the Minor Consent for Vaccination Act (MCA) in Booth v. Bowser, a case brought by Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) (tinyurl.com/ycksus9r).

In an amicus brief, AAPS writes: “The requirement of informed consent is as fundamental to medical ethics as it is to law. A medical procedure without informed consent constitutes battery, and minors are generally incapable of making legal decisions or providing informed consent (tinyurl.com/32mrh59b).

If this Act stands, AAPS argues, “there is no stopping point against future infringements with other medical injections or treatments. The Act is conceptually similar to the notorious mandatory sterilization of a woman a century ago, pursuant to Virginia law, because she was perceived not to be smart enough.”

The AMA’s amicus brief supports mandating the vaccine if authorities were to speculate that its overall good was greater than its overall harm, despite severe individual harm. It fails even to address the possibility of COVID-19 vaccine “harm” to anyone.


A Fraud to Cancel Global Debt?

When COVID hit, Wall Street executive Edward Dowd had been worrying about global debt. “If there’s a sovereign debt bubble, the people who created it were not going to take the blame. So,…would they start a war or something like that? They had to cause some distraction.” COVID could be used as a “system of control to prevent riots when the current bubble pops.” He writes: “If I can show that Pfizer committed fraud, the house of cards has a better chance of coming down.” He observes that Pfizer had failed the all-cause mortality endpoint in clinical trials: 21 in deaths in drug group vs. 17 in placebo. No drug with more deaths than placebo can be approved. Also, a whistleblower showed that 1,000 participants had been unblinded—enough to destroy Pfizer’s claim of 95% efficacy (tinyurl.com/y9e3jruv).


Correspondence

Maybe We Should Consider Risks. After 1,626 cases of myocarditis had been reported, with average onset within two days of receiving a COVID mRNA shot, Matthew Oster of CDC et al. concluded that “this risk should be considered in the context of the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination” (JAMA 1/25/22). The highest rate was in adolescent males following the second shot. Many more cases have surely occurred since August 2021.

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Biological Warfare. Those who wanted to wage a biological attack on a population or world should create a vaccine just like the COVID vaccine, one that drives sub-optimal, non-sterilizing, non-neutralizing immunity, and implement roll-out during a raging pandemic. If the aim is to slowly harm the population and kill, not massively at first, but increasingly over time, the COVID vaccine strategy would be quite appropriate.

Paul Alexander, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/2cd258yy


Legal Help. The COVID Resource Network (https://tinyurl.com/2p92c9cb) may be able to help if you, a loved one, or a patient is trapped in a hospital protocol. See their “Hospital COVID Guide 1.0” (tinyurl.com/2p9hen6w). You may submit a request for help to: vireslaw.group/covid-resource-network/.

Debi Carey, careyconsultingassociates.com


Government and Private Misconduct. Pharmacologist and ethicist David Gortler exposes unethical and tortious conduct by the FDA, CDC, NIH, and many others in matters of COVID mRNA shot promotion and efficacy/safety data. Because all of the FDA’s 18,000-plus employees had access to the same data we have, he asks: Where are the “Dear Doctor” and “Dear Pharmacist” letters with updated safety data; recommendations for follow-up symptom tracking; and Data Safety Monitoring Board? Is the $6.5 billion dollar funding not enough? “The selective omission of public health information is more than clinical malpractice; it is scientific fraud.” Gortler says that the professional licenses of agency employees should be at risk (https://tinyurl.com/2czwwm68). He links to a list of athlete deaths after mRNA shots. Informed consent is out the window when tyrants are in control, clutching EUAs.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


Infections Soar in Supervaxxed. Evidence keeps mounting of negative efficacy: jabs increase susceptibility (tinyurl.com/c7nvjdrz).

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


Corruption of American Medicine. In our interview with Dr. Mark McDonald, author of United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis and adviser to Gov. Ron DeSantis, he speaks of how Dr. Anthony Fauci built an empire based on lies, deliberately manipulating people and causing countless deaths (www.sndup.net/sqf3/). Corruption in medical organizations is pervasive, Dr. McDonald says. His podcast is at informeddissentmedia.com.

W.J.  and Alison Mencarow, The Paper Source


906 Studies.  Informed Choice Australia has compiled a list of peer-reviewed studies on adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines  submitted to medical journals (tinyurl.com/mdfaz6su).

Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC


Metamorphosis. In the 1950s, when I entered practice, physicians were independent and paid by their patients. Many facilities as well as physicians provided free care to those unable to pay. During the 1960s, employers’ and government’s “free insurance” programs turned a patient-driven enterprise into an investor-owned and profit-driven business system. As always, bearers of gifts became the masters of those receiving them. Free facilities closed. Medical societies developed a self-serving agenda focused on third-party reimbursement. The physician leadership vacuum was filed by government and the insurance industry. Employed physicians are becoming the sacrificial lambs, and their patients’ services will be rationed.

Lindsay Pratt, M.D., Myrtle Beach, SC


Scary Thought. Could the Feds take over a state legislature and governorship? It has happened before. When it became clear  that Missouri was going to secede in 1861, as a “slave state,” the Feds came in and chased out the legitimate state government, who had to go into hiding, while the Federals put in a puppet government. I did not learn this in public school; I was taught that Missouri was “neutral.” Far from that! This is the state where brother literally fought with brother, neighbor with neighbor, and with the border war with Kansas still fresh, Missourians fought with Kansas jayhawkers, and grew guerilla fighters from whence came Frank and Jesse James. It can and may well happen again.

Jenny Powell, M.D., Osage Beach, MO


Is This Modern Science? We do not know whether COVID-19 vaccines prevent infection in children. Pfizer did not check for that in its trials in children. The company checked only whether the subjects had developed antibody levels.

Ray Page, D.O., Ph.D., Aledo, TX




AAPS News March 2022 – SOTU, Unity, and War

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Volume 78, no. 3  March 2022

President Biden proclaimed his first State of the Union message to be about setting a “unity agenda” for the nation. The nation is indeed sharply divided—between those standing for freedom and those accepting totalitarian measures on the pretext of fighting a virus. Biden did not acknowledge this state of war on Americans and their guaranteed Constitutional liberties. Instead, he led with the war in Ukraine (https://tinyurl.com/2p8u6x37).

Have our congressional representatives ever before waved  foreign flags at a presidential address? Sen. Chuck Schumer wore a blue jacket with a yellow tie; one woman displayed a Ukrainian blue and yellow scarf. “We stand with Ukraine” is the bipartisan message—without stating just how far that goes, if say a Russian steps one inch over the border of an Article 5 NATO country. Biden promises to defend every square inch of NATO with “the full force of our collective power.” He listed American ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments. He did not mention nuclear weapons—but Putin did.

Anyone who dares to disturb unity by raising a question about the Ukrainian narrative is likely to be accused of being pro-Putin—just as those who question the COVID-19 narrative are for disease and death—and is likely to be canceled.

Notably, those who have Ukrainian flags on their Twitter profiles and seem willing to risk war for nationalism, borders, gun rights, civil liberties, and free speech for Ukraine have no problem with sacrificing these things for Americans.

Vladimir Putin has always been an oligarch and ruthless dictator, like so many world leaders. This didn’t seem to bother most Americans during the Obama “reset.” Russophobia was ginned up by Democrats’ and media allegations that Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary  Clinton.

Putin is also a Russian nationalist who opposes Wokeism and its anti-Western civilization, pro-LGBTQ++ ideology.

Americans did not care about Ukraine when Stalin was starving kulaks and seizing their land. Most gave no thought to any of the Captive Nations before the Soviet empire fell, and probably even less to former Warsaw Pact members afterward. Why now?

Is it moral sensibility about a bigger country invading a smaller country, as Kamala Harris explained (tinyurl.com/bdsrr9jd)?

There was no similar, apparently coordinated world outcry over Hong Kong, Yugoslavia, Iraq, or Georgia, and one is unlikely over Taiwan, if China invades that island.

Non-military Coercion

The Biden Administration is relying on economic sanctions. The threat did not deter an invasion, but will increasingly severe pressure cause Russia to surrender? As Biden said, “We are cutting off Russia’s largest banks from the international financial system, preventing Russia’s central bank from defending the Russian ruble.” He boasted that the ruble has already lost 30% percent of its value, and the Russian stock market, 40%.

This economic warfare may inconvenience the oligarchs but will seriously harm the Russian people. If Russia is excluded from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) (https://tinyurl.com/4brv8s4r), retaliation will possibly end the reign of the petrodollar (p 2).

Other Crises

Ukraine has displaced the 24-hour scare coverage of COVID-19, as well as the Pfizer documents revealing the adverse effects of its vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci seems to have vanished from the limelight, likely because of polling data showing that Americans are fed up (https://tinyurl.com/bddwm34w). Some mandates are being rolled back, but Biden is not lifting the declaration of emergency or the CMS vaccine mandate. Biden takes credit for an alleged economic recovery, but no responsibility for the destruction, saying that few pieces of legislation had “done more at a critical moment in our history to lift us out of crisis” than his American Rescue Plan. It provided economic relief and “fueled our efforts to vaccinate the nation and combat Covid-19.”

If Congress will just pass his bills, he pleaded, we can revitalize American manufacturing and fight inflation by “lowering costs.” He said we can “cut energy costs for families an average of $500 a year by combating climate change”—another existential crisis, in the name of which, according to Sen. Ted Cruz, Biden  imposes harsher restrictions on American than on Russian oil.

What Are the Two Sides?

“In the battle between democracy and autocracies, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security,” Biden said. Or is it the side of a global totalitarian technocracy that rules by fear?

What is Ukraine? A free, independent, prosperous democracy? Or a World Economic Forum/NATO puppet after a NATO-engineered putsch with regime change in 2014 (tinyurl.com/yckpzkr8), and a money-laundering center for corrupt billionaires? Ukrainians have been fleeing since 2014 (tinyurl.com/3xr43snr), becoming low-wage servants to less-impoverished people as in Poland. Heroic Ukrainians are fighting for their homes, but what is the agenda of those who are promoting war?

The real war is against Western civilization, sovereign nations, and self-government that protects individual rights. Watch what the magician’s other hand is doing behind a blue and yellow flag.


Financial Warfare

The Russian convoy slowly approaching Kyiv is getting more mainstream media attention than the truck convoy to Washington, D.C., or the one that converged on Ottawa. The latter is also, although entirely peaceful, deemed a threat to the regime, triggering the Canadian Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act). This forbids participation in, travel to, or hosting on private property assemblies deemed “unlawful.” It also orders financial institutions to cease dealing with anyone involved in funding these protests (https://tinyurl.com/2p8h3764).

While the government is unable to account for $600 billion in public spending, Canada’s deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland can find out who donated $20 to truckers and may freeze their bank accounts. Trudeau’s government has shut down 39 trucking companies in Ontario for participating on the convoy. The names of the companies and proceedings are secret (https://tinyurl.com/2s35vzn3).

Total financial war on Russia has followed Western examples.

Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin was banned from Airbnb for speaking at an American Renaissance conference (tinyurl.com/bdh9z9fe). Less than a month later, all Russians were booted. For years, social media has banned conservative voices; now the whole of Russia is banned. Why can’t Fox News be canceled too? Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal are suspending operations in Russia—are Red States next?

What are the consequences—intended  and unintended—of economic warfare? Is it a great thing to destroy Russia’s economy and impoverish her people? Overnight, Russia’s $630 billion in currency “reserves” were declared worthless. If the dollar is revocable, whether it “belongs” to someone who honked a horn in Ottawa, “enabled” an illegal protest, or is defined as an “oligarch”—or to a bank in a sanctioned country, who will hold American currency (tinyurl.com/mupxk85w)?

The dollar is hardly fighting from a position of strength. Its share of trade settlements between Russia and China slipped from 90% in 2015 to 46% in 2020 (tinyurl.com/2p85ss66). Visa and Mastercard might be replaced with Russia’s Mir system and China’s UnionPay (https://tinyurl.com/2p8fsv4n).

The barrage of sanctions amounts to the “weaponization” of dollar-based money, as described by former Société Générale strategist Dylan Grice: “You only get to play the card once,” he tweeted. “China will make it a priority to need no USD before going for Taiwan. It’s a turning point in monetary history” (https://tinyurl.com/mr3stny9).

As the ruble crashes, what happens to creditors who are paid in rubles (https://tinyurl.com/4fswvkzn), and to American public pension plans, which may be heavily invested in Russia (https://tinyurl.com/3hc4y4xk)?

The collapse of the world banking system’s house of cards might usher in a global digital currency. If people have one digitized account as envisioned by the World Economic Forum, tied to their record of vaccination, travel, and ESG   (environmental, social, and governmental) score, their spending could be minutely controlled, and they could even be depersoned. They will own nothing—and will they be happy?


“A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”

John Stuart Mill


Not in the News

As of Mar 1, Pfizer has released 150 documents comprising 50,000 pages pertaining to its COVID-19 vaccine—which it had tried to keep secret for 75 years. They are posted at https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/. Document 5.3.6, Cumulative Analysis of Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports (https://tinyurl.com/y6z4rvzp), states that there were 42,086 case reports (25,379 medically confirmed and 16,707 non-medically confirmed) containing 158,893 events. An underreporting factor was not calculated but could be as high as 100. Appendix 1 is a 9-page tightly packed list of “adverse events of special interest.” Steve Kirsch in his preliminary analysis (tinyurl.com/3ujdeus8) writes that there is nothing that should surprise those who have read the VAERS reports, but this should be harder to ignore.


Checking Compliance

At the World Economic Forum, Albert Bourla discussed the “first electronic pill” approved by the FDA. It contains an electronic chip that sends a signal once the pill is dissolved in the stomach so that one knows the patient has taken the drug (tinyurl.com/m68a6j9j). Much more reliable than pill counting!


Who’s Who

Albert Bourla, D.V.M., holds a Ph.D. in the biotechnology of reproduction, worked with Pfizer for 25 years, holding many senior global positions, and became CEO in 2019. He is an agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum.

Chrystia Freeland is keeping some bank accounts frozen even after Trudeau lifted the Emergencies Act.  For years, she misled Canadians about her Ukrainian grandfather’s work as a Nazi propagandist. In 2014, while working in Moscow as a financial journalist, she was blacklisted for advocating western sanctions against Russia. Since 2019, she has been a member of the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum, and she is working on an authorized biography of George Soros (tinyurl.com/2p938da6).

Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected president of Ukraine in a landslide victory in 2019, on a promise to ease tensions with Russia. He is lionized by the international press as a fearless hero fighting for democracy, but some call him a NATO puppet and note that tensions with Russia have only worsened steadily (tinyurl.com/5a4uwrbr). He admires Justin Trudeau (tinyurl.com/yckjh3brand). Zelenskyy proposed that the WEF become a stakeholder in the “new Ukraine” (tinyurl.com/3hnvxnsb). Republicans are attacking Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) for calling Zelensky a “thug” and the Ukraine regime “evil” and “corrupt” (tinyurl.com/2p92cyxm).


AAPS Calendar

October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.


‘Emergencies’ and the Rule of Law

In a remarkable coincidence, as the rationale for the emergency powers to fight the COVID-19 pandemic started to wane, the government started pushing for confrontation with Russia and assuming war powers. Tucker Carlson noted that Biden immediately declared total economic war on Russia without pausing for public debate or congressional authorization. After destroying the ruble, he began seizing the private property of persons affiliated with that country without a trial or due process of any kind, or naming the crime that had supposedly been committed. This is unprecedented; the U.S. has always stood for the rule of law.

Instead of worrying about being declared an enemy of the state and having their bank account confiscated, Americans are only thinking about Ukraine. The other unprecedented development, Carlson stated, is the control that the tech monopoly exerts over Americans’ emotions. They are changing their social media avatars from BLM signs or mask-up slogans to Ukrainian flags.

One topic cannot be hidden: inflation. Biden denies that government spending has anything to do with it, but Carlson recalls that in the 2008 financial crisis the government assumed emergency powers to “save the economy”—with measures that have continued for 14 years. The Fed being out of tricks, as the allegedly roaring economy is based on asset inflation, not production, government is trying two measures: denying that it is happening, and blaming someone else: Vladimir Putin. [Note: U.S. inflation is more than twice as severe as in peer European countries.]

Attacking and destabilizing the global financial system will destroy the U.S.—not Putin. When the fog clears, the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be seen as the most destructive thing a President has ever done to America—and to the world, says Carlson (https://tinyurl.com/5n8smesz). Worse than the response to COVID-19?


Tip of the Month: Surprise office visits by a government agent are rare, but sometimes happen. It is important that you or your staff first verify the visitor’s identity by requesting a business card. Then it is typically unwise to answer questions without invoking your right to have an attorney present for you. One effective approach is to ask the visitor to email you any questions so that you can review and respond to them thoroughly at a more convenient time. The government agent will be insistent on asking “just a few questions” immediately, but be aware that innocent people are prosecuted merely for supposedly misleading a federal agent. There is no obligation to answer questions by an investigator, particularly someone who failed to schedule an appointment.


Doctors Sue California over Assisted Suicide

Legislation permitting assisted suicide, passed in 2016, promised an opt out for conscientious objection. But the amended law, SB 380, signed last fall,  while claiming that “participating” in assisted suicide is “voluntary,” defines “participation” very narrowly. Physicians could be liable for civil, criminal, administrative, or other penalty for refusal to take steps that authorize intentional killing. The Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA) have filed a lawsuit requesting injunctive relief from SB 380’s provisions that violate medical professionals’ right to refrain from speech or action to assist intentional death (tinyurl.com/2p86xb33).


Information and Culture Wars

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been collecting COVID data for 2 years, with specific information on age, sex, vaccination status, race, hospitalizations, and deaths, but has been deliberately withholding it from the public. When it finally did release some data in February, it withheld figures on the effectiveness of boosters in 18–49-year-olds.

CDC cited “fear that the information might be misinterpreted”—for example, as showing “the vaccines being ineffective.” As Samuel Scarpino of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute noted: “The CDC is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics got an answer on the length of disease infectiousness from the New York Times. “[CDC has] known the answer for a year and a half, right, and they have not told us…. You can’t find out anything from them (NYT 2/21/22, https://tinyurl.com/2zxj2vps).

“By deliberately withholding data that did not support the government-approved narrative, and simply continuing with the mantra of wear masks and get vaccinated, the CDC has been one of the premier spreaders of true misinformation,” writes AAPS past president Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D.

From CDC data, equity investment advisor Edward Dowd calculates that Millennials, age 25 to 40, experienced an 84% excess mortality in the fall of 2021, coinciding with vaccine mandates and boosters—a Vietnam War-size event. Dowd also examined the Pfizer clinical trial data obtained by whistleblower Brook Jackson, concluding that the data and the attempt to hide it “point to clinical fraud”  (https://tinyurl.com/2vkbph32).

The Defense Medical Epidemiological Database (DMED) has shown a startling increase in conditions that have been observed to be adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines, but not in other conditions such as trauma. Because the information was widely shared, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the NIH must have known about it. Yet there was no mention of it until whistleblowers Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers, and Theresa Long released unclassified raw data (https://tinyurl.com/24dd6ea3).

Only now has the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Surveillance Division reviewed data in the DMED “and found that the data was incorrect for the years 2016-2020.”

Compared with 2020, reports of nervous system diseases, for example, are up by 968% in 2021, Guillain-Barré syndrome up 520%, and myocarditis up 184% (tinyurl.com/3xzk929c).

Just as with the war in Ukraine, there is an information war on the COVID front, with intelligence and counter-intelligence, psy-ops, censorship, and breakdown of the rule of law. What is the role of our once-trusted agencies and institutions: FBI, CIA, Dept. of Defense, CDC, NIH, FDA, organized medicine, and our once-great universities? Where do all parties stand on culture and governance? Are they for traditional Western civilization and ethics, or for radical Wokeism? For limited government and respect for inalienable individual rights, or for a totalitarian technocracy in the name of safety and security?

COVID-19 has allegedly claimed 9 million victims in the U.S. alone. How many were lost to the lockdowns or to vaccines—or to treatment denied? Was there mere incompetence—or also intent, and thus criminal liability? Are innocent people dying in Ukraine or from COVID measures due to a hidden agenda?


Correspondence

Denial at the CDC. There have been 57 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination. The two boys cited in this article (tinyurl.com/vh24fe3u) were autopsy-proven cases of fatal myocarditis a few days following vaccination. Both were healthy before getting the shot. How can a CDC spokesman tell the Epoch Times that “we don’t have any confirmed deaths from myocarditis suffered post-vaccination at this time.”

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Heart Damage. As of Jan 16 there were 463 athlete cardiac arrests, with 263 dead, post COVID vaccine. The media pretends that this is not happening. There is no such thing as “mild” myocarditis. The heart muscle cells that die are not replenished, and the heart is scarred long-term.

Paul Elias Alexander, Ph.D., palexander.substack.com


The Status of Physicians. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that if you are a private citizen, working for a private company, it is unconstitutional for you to have a medical treatment forced upon you.  But if you are a medical worker, you do not have that same protection. The cancer of Medicare/Medicaid that our profession allowed to metastasize throughout virtually all of medicine has now begun to actively consume us. It apparent that the COVID panic/reaction was about population control, not keeping people healthy, and that the public health apparatus views patient and physician autonomy as dispensable as the truth.

The decision is based on false information. Why should we believe any claims from the factory that has produced an unbroken string of failure and lies? It is not about “saving lives,” but rather using the bodies of subject workers to offer to the public as trophies in the unending War on COVID. We are the servant class, not to be trusted or respected, and our value lies only in our obedience. We are living in a 1984 state of medicine.

Pat Conrad, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/mpcphffj


Get Prepared. The sanctions on Russia might have only a modest impact there, especially if China does not join them. But Americans had better prepare. Lumber, petroleum, precious metals, iron, and cereal are all going to be affected by supply disruptions traceable to Russia or Ukraine. Do not rely on the legacy media to tell you what to think and how to respond. They cannot be trusted to tell the truth. They will spin everything and say whatever the government (or the World Economic Forum) wants them to say (https://tinyurl.com/3pz5red4).

Robert W. Malone, M.D.


Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. Recent actions of the Canadian government show that it is concerned only about protests against its policies, not about COVID-19. Justice Minister David Lametti dodged questions about the terms and conditions the government is using to instruct financial institutions, but finally, after equating the Trudeau order to the same principles around terrorism, he said: “If you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who is donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to this kind of thing, then you ought to be worried” (tinyurl.com/mr36uz3a). Canada’s dragnet will encompass every part of the financial system (including securities dealers) in order to cut off the truckers from funding. Trudeau has been accused of almost  crashing the Canadian economy of banking, insurance, and real estate, single-handedly in just a few days. 

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ



The Great Reset. Diverse sources (tinyurl.com/5n7y82vz, tinyurl.com/2p8rvdd2, tinyurl.com/5a3w46hv) lead to the conclusion that the Great Reset is the over-arching background within which vaccine and other mandates must be understood. Historic de facto dismissal of foundational personal rights and draconian control of dissent and resistance are embedded into the entire pandemic response and utilize the pandemic itself as a tool or weapon to seize autocratic power. Big Government, Big Tech, Big Finance, Big Pharma, and even organized medicine are either purposefully, or unwittingly caught into the web of deception and  are complicit in allowing this all to happen.  

Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC


Genetic Targeting? From a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis: The FDA should be aware of the racial specificity of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 as potentially or actually causing racially specific harm…. The spike protein…involves both furin and TMPRSS2 protease cleavage sites. Both…seem to be preferentially found in black, brown and Native American populations…. [Also,]…the specific ACE2 receptor binding domain (RBD)…attracts black, brown, and Native American…ACE2 receptors but repels the ACE2 receptors of K26R found in [certain] others.

These findings suggest that not only should the Pfizer vaccine not be approved for young children but that the Pfizer vaccine stop being mandated in anyone until racially specific short-term and long-term damage may be elucidated utilizing computer modeling rather than human experimentation…. Please consider asking companies or intelligence units that have done computer modeling of the spike protein…[to] turn over their data to the FDA and unbiased physicians and others for review.

James W. Thomas, M.D., M.B.A., North Wales, PA




AAPS News February 2022 – If You Take Their Money….

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Volume 78, no. 2  February 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court split the baby on the vaccine mandates cases. In both, the key issue is the power of the administrative state to force people to accept an unwanted and potentially harmful medical intervention as a condition of employment. The stay on the OSHA mandate on employers of 100 or more workers to enforce vaccination or weekly testing was upheld while the CMS mandate on healthcare workers at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified facilities and suppliers (other than physicians’ offices) was allowed to be enforced immediately. Why the difference?

The Court stated that CMS has long imposed conditions on funding, including the protection of the health and safety of beneficiaries as the Secretary determines appropriate. But the government has less power over workers paid by private industry.

In the 1950s, the debate was over federal aid to education. My sage 7th grade math teacher, W.R. Keith (WoRK), told my mother, “If you take their money, they’ll tell you how wide to make the door.” And eventually, as he probably could not imagine, tell you to teach the children that they are an oppressor or victim based on skin color, that they can and possibly should change their sex, and that there are no right or wrong answers to math problems.

The decision on the CMS mandate implies that the federal government thinks that it owns workers paid with federal money and can demand that they take a product with no long-term safety data, unprecedented numbers of reports of adverse effects including death or permanent disability (which the Court did not even consider), disregard for natural immunity, and no evidence that it reduces workplace transmission of disease.

As Justice Thomas wrote in his dissent, “These cases are not about the efficacy or importance of COVID–19 vaccines. They are only about whether CMS has the statutory authority to force healthcare workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo.” We presume, he states, that Congress does not hide “fundamental details of a regulatory scheme in vague or ancillary provisions.”

Justice Alito, also dissenting, wrote: “Today, however, most federal law is not made by Congress. It comes in the form of rules issued by unelected administrators. In order to give individuals and entities who may be seriously impacted by agency rules at least some opportunity to make their views heard and to have them given serious consideration, Congress has clearly required that agencies comply with basic procedural safeguards…. In these cases, the relevant agency did none of those things, and the Court rewards this extraordinary departure from ordinary principles of administrative procedure (https://tinyurl.com/ycku3fsy).

In the per curium ruling, the Court admitted that promises made by President Lyndon Johnson are null and void: “Lastly, the rule does not run afoul of the directive in §1395 that federal officials may not ‘exercise any supervision or control over the… manner in which medical services are provided, or over the selection [or] tenure…of any officer or employee of’ any facility. That reading of section 1395 would mean that nearly every condition of participation the Secretary has long insisted upon is unlawful.”

As indeed it is.

The Impact on Medicine

AAPS surveys have long predicted an exodus of physicians. In 2003, 62% of respondents said they planned to retire at an earlier age than expected 5 years previously, citing “increased government interference,” followed by “increased regulatory burden.” Money ranked number six. (https://tinyurl.com/5v8yf9zz).

The AMA is now talking about the “great resignation,” stating that “one in five physicians say it is likely they will leave their current practice within two years” (tinyurl.com/2p89uz48). It suggests “making employees feel valued,” with no mention of mandates or Medicare constraints and threats.

The COVID vaccine mandate could cause the British National Health Service to lose 6% of its workforce or 80,000 workers (https://tinyurl.com/musa6nby).

As Lee Beecher, M.D., points out, mandates make the jobs of  medical workers even less desirable. We can expect the quality of workers as a group to keep decreasing. Intelligent young people will try to avoid this career path even more than now. 

The Only Escape

Short of death or abandoning their profession, the last option physicians have, to avoid constant pandering to their owners, is to opt out of federal programs. “There’s only one ethical ‘single payer,’ here or abroad,” writes a Minnesota internist, “our next patient!” Government is the problem, never the answer.

Some are building a parallel private system, and there is a desperate need for facilities willing to offer COVID-19 treatment outside the Fauci/NIH lockstep protocol that is apparently de rigueur (with positive and negative “incentives,” https://tinyurl.com/3zt3bu3f) in almost all American hospitals. There should be many physicians and nurses available to staff it.

It is human nature to endure adverse circumstances, as most Jewish physicians did in Nazi Germany, hoping they will be temporary. It’s as described in a horrifying clip from The Silence of the Lambs (https://tinyurl.com/mud5hw63). Clarice opened the gate to the pen. The lambs who were about to be slaughtered could have run—but didn’t.

We must nonetheless try to save as many as we can.


Vaccination Data

150,000. After a judge ruled that FDA and Pfizer would have to answer their FOIA requests over a few months, not 55 to 75 years, Pfizer’s “Cumulative Analysis of Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports” reveals that it received more than 150,000 serious adverse event reports within 3 months of rolling out its COVID shot (https://tinyurl.com/562d7mxx).

10 Red Flags. FDA’s risk-benefit analysis of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine in children aged 5–11 is “shoddy” and “used tortured logic (that would be rejected by any proper academic journal) in order to reach a predetermined result that is not based in science,” writes Toby Rogers (https://tinyurl.com/2p8ane8x).

NNTV = 915,641. Using Pfizer and CDC data, the number of children needed to be vaccinated to avert a single COVID death is 915,641, or 1,831,282 per injection (tinyurl.com/bd86hm34).

50:50? Is it a pandemic of the unvaccinated? Some say it’s 50:50; some say spread is worse from the vaccinated, writes Dr. Paul Alexander (tinyurl.com/25xatzuy). The CDC identifies four of the top five U.S. counties with the highest percentage of fully vaccinated population (99.9–84.3%) as “high” transmission counties (https://tinyurl.com/4nvmt8n7).

500,000 Deaths/year. This mortality from tobacco use is not a high enough threshold to trigger a compelling government interest  in meaningfully curtailing use (https://tinyurl.com/bp7857n4).

150 Times. The mortality from COVID injections appears to be more than 150 times the rate of 0.8 deaths/million doses of smallpox vaccine, one of several ways in which mandates fail the Jacobson test, write Harvey Risch and Gerard Bradley (ibid.).

30,000 Menstrual Irregularities. Although no menstrual problems have been acknowledged as a potential side effect, the UK flag system has >30,000 reports (tinyurl.com/4x2cbwk2).


International Dispatches

Germany. A nurse being fired for declining the jab states that there are hardly any COVID patients in a large Berlin hospital, but many young patients in the cardiac unit (tinyurl.com/2p8p7nkt).

UK. Official guidance has been published on “rare” post-jab myocarditis. “Where appropriate the patient should be seen face to face and this assessment should include their vital signs.” A cardiac MRI may be indicated (https://tinyurl.com/y3etdszy).

EU. President Ursula von der Leyen, “one of those figures most people have never heard of but who decides everything that matters,” called for the compulsory vaccination of half-a-billion people and the dumping of the Nuremberg Code on medical experimentation,  writes Mark Steyn (tinyurl.com/5xuucwu3).

Global. “Build back better” (https://tinyurl.com/2vyczd9r).


“When we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom—freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.”

Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1954


FDA-Authorized or Approved COVID Drugs

Remdesivir (Veklury™). Fauci’s “standard of care” is now approved for out-patient use also. See NIH Table 2f for comparisons with non-approved drugs (tinyurl.com/pf63p2t2). WHO recommends against its use (tinyurl.com/ytv6sdcw). The risk of  acute renal failure is 14 times the expected rate (https://tinyurl.com/ycktkavw).

Baricitinib (Olumiant™). Available under EUA for oxygen-requiring patients, it has a black-box warning for causing blood clots (https://tinyurl.com/46yukfz8).

Tofacitinib (Xeljanz™). This Janus kinase inhibitor, found to have unclear efficacy in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia (tinyurl.com/yckhjje9), has a black-box warning for “serious infections and malignancy” (tinyurl.com/mr248xt4).

Paxlovid™. Pfizer’s touted “wonder drug” is a combination of    a  protease inhibitor and the HIV drug ritonavir, which is needed to prevent its rapid breakdown but has many serious adverse effects (tinyurl.com/45dhu98t). Ivermectin, Daniel Horowitz points out, is a far more effective protease inhibitor and has 19 additional mechanisms of action (tinyurl.com/ydzmuyef).

Molnupiravir. Merck’s nucleoside analog was abandoned as an  influenza treatment because of its mutagenic action and the risk of mutant viruses.  Even the FDA advisory committee admitted that the drug poses a risk of birth defects (ibid.).

FDA is at least acknowledging the need for early treatment, but despite the dubious effectiveness and poor safety of its green-lighted products, the war against long-approved drugs, and the doctors who prescribe them, continues (tinyurl.com/2s46a28k).


It’s about the Money

It’s not about ivermectin, writes Beth Brelie. “It’s about what COVID-19 exposed in America’s health care system. The federal government, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies hold the reins on what care hospital administrators can offer. They never looked at your chart, but have a say in your treatment, and doctors who stray from administrative protocol can kiss their careers goodbye.” Culprits include the shortfalls in Medicare and Medicaid payments; the medical-loss-ratio provision in the Affordable Care Act; Accountable  Care Organizations and Pay for Performance, which require matching diagnosis and treatment codes in the electronic record; and quality improvement organizations that assign the equivalent of a social credit score. For 15 years, “doctors have been unable to think on their own.” Even what they must study for continuing medical education is determined (tinyurl.com/3w6f8tav). 


AAPS Calendar

February 11-12, 2022. Winter meeting, Venice, Florida.

October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.


ACTION OF THE MONTH

If you offer early treatment for COVID-19 by protocol similar to those at c19protocols.com, please add your name to a list we are compiling to help patients at bit.ly/covidearlytx.


Flashback

In 1974, in AAPS v. Weinberger, which challenged Professional Standards Review Organizations, government attorneys argued:  “Patients whose medical care is provided by public funds have no constitutional right to whatever care [their physicians] using the “highest standards of medical practice” … may “judge necessary” … or to obtain that care “from a physician *** of their choice” [emphasis added]. Moreover, they stated that “Congress need not agree to pay for whatever care appellants desire to provide” and can, §1801 notwithstanding, “influence both the standard of care and the identity of its provider by prior review no less than by review designed to achieve the same purpose” (https://tinyurl.com/33w5af7j). The Supreme Court declined an appeal.


AMA Strives to ‘Cement ACA’s Success’

Thrilled about the Affordable Care Act’s “legal status affirmed by three Supreme Court decisions,” AMA president Gerald E. Harmon, M.D., writes that further refinements will enable ACA to “fulfill its mandate” to get all Americans covered. He credits AMA’s Voice for the Uninsured campaign, launched in 2007, with building momentum that culminated in the adoption of the ACA just a few years later (tinyurl.com/yj78nvjd). Medical practice independent of control by the government/insurance/pharmaceutical/hospital complex  becomes rarer still.

The latest case, brought by Texas and others (tinyurl.com/mrxz97ux), was dismissed for lack of standing without considering any of the substantial  issues (tinyurl.com/n87vtka4).


SCOTUS Absent on Individual Rights

The Supreme Court’s decisions on both OSHA and CMS mandates were also based on narrow technical grounds, with no findings of fact, no reference to Jacobson, and no reference to individual rights. Apparently, both sides agree that “experts” should decide health questions, but differ on which experts or which level of government should be involved. “Nothing in the Constitution supports this approach,” writes Toby Rogers. “The Constitution did not envision a society of technocrats making decisions on behalf of society. The founders were well aware of the fact that power corrupts everyone and so they returned decision-making on matters of fact to ordinary citizens” (tinyurl.com/2yf7xuxa).


Hospitals Block 90% of IVM Legal Actions

In the past year there have been more than 100 court cases trying to get access to ivermectin for very ill patients believed to have little chance of surviving. Only about 10% of these legal actions have been successful.  Hospitals file endless motions and sometimes go to appeals courts to defeat or at least delay favorable decisions until the deathbed patient succumbs—despite evidence that IVM sometimes saves patients even very late in the course of the disease. Joel Hirschhorn reviews cases from several states, concluding that the only consistency is that hospitals invariably fight all attempts and are totally on the side of government agencies.  Most judges are stubbornly wed to the idea that hospitals know what works best, despite the very high death rate of  late-stage COVID patients on their protocol  (tinyurl.com/yrytne89).


They’ve Got a Little List

If you apply for a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine,  which may be the only way to avoid it if you want to keep your job, you are likely to be on a list. Some 25 federal agencies are actively tracking religious exemption requests from employees of federal agencies along with any contractors, consultants, interns, and volunteers associated with them. Notices of the new tracking system were only made public in the Federal Register. The Department of Transportation’s database, in particular, became effective on the day it was published, with no opportunity for public comment (https://tinyurl.com/y4fuvswc).

If you request free home test kits, your information will be used to provide company and product fulfillment information about that testing kit to a federal executive agency. Collection is authorized by 39 U.S.C. 401, 403, 404, and 411. Information may be disclosed as required by law, e.g., “to government agencies in connection with decisions as necessary” (tinyurl.com/3s7c8yam).


Tip of the Month: We are hearing frightening reports of what happens when a COVID patient is admitted to a hospital.  A hospital may claim that the patient is unable to make medical decisions for himself, and then deny visitation by family while the hospital makes improper decisions to further its own agenda. To overcome this, everyone should designate in writing a trusted person to hold the medical power of attorney, also called an advance directive. Rather than attempt to specify all treatment instructions, which a hostile hospital or court can misinterpret, the better approach is usually to designate a trusted person who knows what the patient would want. Listing only one person, and then a successor person if the first designee is unavailable, might be best. Then the hospital, when presented with that document, should abide by the person’s decisions. States vary in their requirements of what should be in the document, so it is best to check online about your own state.


Criminal Investigation Opened

On Dec 20, 2021, a group of activists and law firms lodged  complaints against UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), according to Unity News Network (UNN), which was founded in 2018 as “an alternative to the old media in the UK” (https://tinyurl.com/mpecf43r). The complaints allege numerous serious crimes including misfeasance and misconduct in public office, which are the subject of Metropolitan Police Crime Number 6029679/21 and International Criminal Court (The Hague) case number OTP‐CR‐473/21.


Canadian Physician Detained, Drugged

Dr. Mel Bruchet, an 81-year-old retired family physician, was taken from his home in handcuffs, detained in a psychiatric hospital, and forcibly medicated with antipsychotics. He had called attention to an increase in stillbirths in British Columbia in COVID-vaccinated mothers, spoken out about the blocking of ivermectin, and together with Dr. Daniel Nagase filed complaints against the Executive Board of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia alleging financial conflicts of interest. He was interviewed by Sam Dubé (https://tinyurl.com/3jm35mw7).


Correspondence

Another Mandate Blocked. The Biden Administration suffered another setback on Jan 21 when U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown ruled that the jab-or-no-job mandate for federal employees was “overbroad,” noting that even full-time remote workers were not exempt (tinyurl.com/2p867269). Like hospitals that conduct sham peer review and ruin physicians’ careers and reputations, authoritarians always appeal. As the Wall Street Journal points out, with 98% of federal workers already vaccinated, Biden’s appeal seems to be “more about punishing than protecting people.” Perhaps Biden refuses to back down despite legal defeat because mandates and coercion are popular with progressive voters. A Rasmussen poll reports that 59% of Democrat voters would support confining the unvaccinated to their homes, and nearly half also thought the government should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of vaccines on social media (WSJ Jan 22-23, 2022). Nikita Khrushchev predicted in 1959 that “your children’s children will live under Communism.” He may be proved correct.

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Hospital Care Disaster. Ohio Governor DeWine has deployed additional National Guard members as a response to shortages of health workers, especially nurses, in a COVID-19 surge, bringing the total to 2,300. Qualified skilled professionals are being removed and replaced with clueless, untrained big-government national guards. I am witnessing this all first-hand; it is worse than a third-world country! The nurses are all outsourced and do 12-hour shifts and are off to another state the next day. All patients are highly endangered by the substandard care.

 While hospitals still are not allowing loved ones in to see patients, there is something that might be done. Each hospital has to have an R.N. patient advocate who can get people ADA Life Partner Status and bypass the nonsense. They can get one-on-one contact access any time, any day, even if COVID lockdown mandates and no-visiting policies are being enforced. The Americans with Disabilities Act is federal, so it overrides state laws everywhere. Usually the nurse advocate will inform the patients’ doctors that patients want to be with their loved ones. It goes as an order in the patients’ medical record. ADA Contacts are to stay in the rooms with the patients. See, for example, https://tinyurl.com/2vy435p2.

I have witnessed many cases of ADA violations, especially in prisons and jails; cases can be won. §504 of the Rehabilitation Act and §1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also apply.

Gina Reghetti, D.O.,  Warren, OH


The Cost of Mandates. Biden’s vaccine mandates would put nearly 700,000 Kentucky workers (34% of the labor force) at risk of losing their jobs. Using Biden’s figures, compliance would cost Kentucky businesses $50 million (tinyurl.com/2p873fdf).

Sen. Rand Paul, M.D.


Slipped through Facebook Censor. An ER nurse posted that 3 hours into her shift she had treated a 36-year-old with a heart attack, a 44-year-old with a stroke, and a 29-year-old with a lower leg blood clot (first two critical). All recently got a COVID shot.

Kathryn Serkes, Denver, CO


Facebook Censors BMJ. The actions of Facebook, Twitter, CNN, et al., are not much different from those of the Chinese Communist Party apparatus. Censorship is tolerance. Bias is  equality. Zuckerspeak is diversity. Unauthorized truth is hate. Why did nothing get done when Republicans might have acted?

BMJ’s report, “Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial,” calls into question the “science” behind Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Because the report does not unquestioningly praise the jabs as “safe and effective,” Facebook “fact-checked” it and deemed it as containing “false information” (tinyurl.com/2bc6x88k).

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


CDC Misconduct. I have personal knowledge of many non-forthcoming actions by the CDC, comparable to what a former director told me about refusal to discontinue a narrative about AIDS prevention that they knew to be false but believed had to be maintained to avert a perceived negative. Especially egregious is an MMWR article that cleverly manipulates and obfuscates data to appear to support the position that naturally immune people should be vaccinated. Attorneys have threatened to file a formal complaint and “hold the authors of this study individually accountable for the deprivation of millions of Americans of their rights, including a number of previously infected individuals whose employers directly relied on this deceptive study to terminate their employment” (tinyurl.com/nhavb98j).

Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC


True Believers’ Self-Justification. The pathological mechanism of projection prevails among leftists. As Victor Davis Hanson notes, the privileged damn privilege, colluders invent collusion, deniers scream denialist, and racists cry racism (tinyurl.com/muup5ys9). True believers see malice and evil in others who  disagree, causing the current severe polarization.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


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AAPS News January 2022 – Overcoming the Great Divide

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Volume 78, no. 1  January 2022

It is clear that America is more divided than even before the War Between the States. The Union and the Confederacy had a common language, common fundamental principles, and constitutions that were alike in most respects. They believed in the existence of right and wrong, good and evil. They differed on one issue that split the country apart and set brother against brother.

After the great bloodshed, the nation came together, and now virtually everyone would claim to agree that slavery is evil, that it is wrong for one person to own another, and that no one race is superior or has more rights than another.

Today’s great divide is not cleanly geographic. It is not accurately characterized as pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump, Democrat vs. Republican, conservative vs. liberal. It is certainly not the bourgeoisie vs. the proletariat or capital vs. labor as the Marxists classically portrayed it. With increasingly aggressive efforts to create enmity between “Us” and “Them,” we need to define these terms.

The Global Elite

The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly separated us. Millions had their lives turned upside down, but others kept getting their  paychecks, or profited. Mandates are rewarding the compliant and punishing the independent-minded. The cancel culture is destroying reputations and careers of dissenters while hailing the promoters of FDA/CDC/NIH/HHS/Pfizer et al. COVID-19 protocols.

The same culturally dominant forces are also (coincidentally?) imposing Critical Race Theory, approval of or applause for the LGBTQxxx agenda, support for the most important or only right (abortion), and acceptance of politically correct lawlessness.

The results are appalling. The pandemic may by now be the longest plague in history. The middle class is being destroyed; hundreds or thousands have probably died unnecessarily; and medical services are seriously damaged by the Great Resignation. Simultaneously, those who hold traditional Western values and defend the Bill of Rights are marginalized as “bigots” or even “domestic terrorists” by the self-designated “mainstream.”

As has been true throughout history—with a few exceptions such as the early days of the American Republic, the two classes have been the rulers and the subjects. The rulers were previously identifiable. But the Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Romanovs are gone, and British royalty appears to be theater. Are American elected officials in charge? Joe Biden? Donald Trump? He caused great consternation in the Deep State but was constantly thwarted, and most of his policies have already been erased. Does Congress represent the electorate—or donors? And who are they?

If America is to be re-founded (AAPS News, July 2021), we need to know who “we” are, and who “they” are. Who is the foe?

Who are our few principled friends? Who are the opportunists, serving the perceived winners in their own self-interest? They may pose as friends but have struck a Faustian bargain that always ends in the same way—after many innocent people are harmed. Against a determined foe, the noble libertarian “live and let live” principle is as relevant as with predator and prey.

Could the chaos, divisiveness, economic carnage, and destruction of civil liberty wrought by lockstep COVID-19 policies in America, Europe, Canada, and Australia be a result sought by the real global rulers in the Great Reset strategy (AAPS News, November 2020 and October 2021)—unopposed by “friends”?

In their book COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey, reviewed by Dr. Marilyn Singleton, Peter Breggin, M.D., and Ginger Breggin conclude from vast research that “by a simple declaration of its own, a small group of individuals led by Bill Gates establishes a new world governance with which to deal with pandemics, thereby ultimately creating an authority that can bulldoze civilization in the service of its global predatory ambitions.”

Anthony Fauci, M.D., chief White House medical adviser and reputedly “America’s Doctor,” is the most prominent face of the coalition of forces described in The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “intelligence agencies, pharmaceutical companies, social media titans, medical bureaucracies, mainstream media and the military—that are using a health crisis to impose totalitarian control worldwide.” Kennedy concludes that the “Robber Barons” won in the war of COVID, and that “we have to love our freedom more than we fear a germ.” Roger Kimball comments that the book is part of  a “reshuffling of seemingly settled ideological alliances” (https://tinyurl.com/ychrbuus).

Unrestricted Warfare

Are the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the genetically engineered jabs, or both, a Chinese Communist Party biowarfare program designed to “clear the field” of Americans (https://tinyurl.com/3myj3dfw)? Is the phenomenon of 20–30% of the population in the western world becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative a mass formation psychosis, asks Robert Malone, M.D., citing work of Dr. Mattias Desmet (tinyurl.com/5n7ee23u)?

Who Are “We the People”?

Forces are acting, whether separately or in concert, that could destroy our America. They are ruthless and full of guile. We need to recognize allies, friends, collaborators, traitors, opportunists, misguided distractions, and the Enemy by what they do or say—and, as importantly, by what they do NOT do or say.


Acts and Omissions

FDA. The Food and Drug Administration has slow-walked  promising therapies such as favipiravir and aviptadil, while rushing authorization of novel gene-therapy “vaccines”; discouraged or suppressed “off-label” use of long-approved drugs, and reportedly is seizing imported ivermectin (https://tinyurl.com/2jhb8jr3); attempted to make potentially helpful, widely used over-the-counter products such as N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) unavailable.

Conservatism, Inc. What have chambers of commerce, the Republican Party, and conservative entities  done about COVID lockdowns, deference to Fauci et al., the Warp Speed mass vaccination experiment, the war against life-saving treatment, rioting in 100 cities, and pervasive Wokeism? How much better off would we be if the same-old GOP regime comes back to power (https://tinyurl.com/32kkz5p3)?


Patents

Since coronaviruses are problematic for  humans and animals, and people saw profit in developing remedies against them, they have been widely studied. Military strategists all over the world saw them as a potential weapon, but this does not negate the boring possibility that the mundane cold virus evolved on its own to a more virulent one and that this spontaneous event was used by Dark Forces as an excuse for their sinister plans. It is perplexing that anyone would patent a bioweapon, since this is not a good way to keep such a weapon secret.

A study by Liu et al. of the global landscape, involving 16,605 coronavirus-related patent documents (tinyurl.com/2p95ky7s), is said to form “a strong intellectual groundwork for the ongoing development of therapeutic agents and vaccines.”

The first coronavirus patent was granted in 1974. With the emergence of SARS-CoV, the number of patent documents increased rapidly from 2002–2006, plateaued 2006–2019, and peaked in 2020. Academia and government have played an increasing role. Strong collaborative international relationships are diagrammed in the article. China and the U.S. are major but not the only players. The top assignee, the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, “shows the military’s growing role in medical research in China, and partnerships between China’s People’s Liberation Army and medical-science companies.”


‘New Normal’ Totalitarianism

 Classic totalitarian features—e.g. revocation of basic rights, centralization of power, rule by decree, oppressive policing,   censorship,  etc.—are impossible to hide, but are recontextualized in a pathologized official narrative. The Untermenschen become “the Unvaccinated.” Swastika lapel pins become masks. Aryan ID papers become “vaccination passes.” Senseless social restrictions and public-obedience rituals become health protection measures. The world is entangled in a total war against an internal, pathological enemy. The entire global-capitalist apparatus has been put into service to achieve the objective of totalitarian control in the name of health (https://tinyurl.com/4vjzh83a).


“It is usually futile to talk facts…to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”

—Thomas Sowell


Left vs. Right

The sharp ideological divide, often characterized inaccurately,  has been meticulously defined by actuary Gerry Smedinghoff (https://aapsonline.org/leftvsright.pdf). Some highlights:

Foundation: political tactics (left) vs. philosophical principles (right)

Outlook: secular, materialistic vs. philosophical, religious

Faith: evolutionary progress of man vs. universal power, order, and justice of a deity

Human nature: can be molded and changed by force vs. defined by original sin and unchangeable

Operating objective: undermine, attack, and destroy vs. build, defend, and preserve

Goverance: centralized control vs. decentralization, subsidiarity

Morality: value free vs. clear standards of right and wrong

Tragedy of man: indecision vs. hubris

Rights: apply differently by class with proliferation of protected classes vs. same for all regardless of outcome

Economic value of humans: liability vs. asset

Terror: celebrate as instrument of public policy vs. view as shameful with need for repentance


COVID Vaccination Updates

Reproductive Health. In Waterloo, Ontario, 86 stillbirths, all in vaccinated women, were reported between January and July; there are normally five or six per year (tinyurl.com/2p85wbsm). In vitro fertilization clinics noticed problems starting with vaccine rollouts. Among other adverse events, the miscarriage rate jumped from 28% to 40%. The clinics do not track vaccination status (https://tinyurl.com/yckm4phc).

Epidemic Cardiovascular Death. In the UK, up to 300,000 British citizens are facing sudden heart-related illness and cardiac arrest. Medical experts are blaming PPSD (post-pandemic stress disorder). ERs and ICUs are overwhelmed. It is claimed that the U.S. VAERS system is also overwhelmed; there may be  20,000–60,000 deaths waiting to be processed (tinyurl.com/yc3s77wb).

Psychiatric Effects. Hallucinations, confusion, insomnia,  agitation, psychosis, and suicide are among the more than 100,000 reported cases of psychiatric disorders following COVID shots  (https://tinyurl.com/5cvaufvn).

Blindness. The UK Yellow Card system contains about 22,000 reports of eye disorders following COVID-19 shots, including 461 cases of complete blindness (https://tinyurl.com/yckrwznu).

Cancer Progression. A week after a booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine, CT/PET scan showed extremely rapid progression of an angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (tinyurl.com/2p8uhpx4).


AAPS Calendar

February 11-12, 2022. Winter meeting, Florida. – https://aapsonline.org/florida2022

October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Missouri, TBA


ACTION OF THE MONTH

If you offer early treatment for COVID-19 by protocol similar to those at c19protocols.com, please add your name to a list we are compiling to help patients at bit.ly/covidearlytx.


Vaccine Liability Concerns

The liability protections enjoyed by COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are not yet absolute. Alix Mayer, president of the board of directors of Children’s Health Defense, explains the rush to vaccinate children and the reason why Comirnaty is not fully approved. COVID vaccines are “covered countermeasures,” and the only compensation available to injured persons is under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP)—as long as the emergency continues. To get protection from the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, if the emergency ends, a vaccine must be approved and recommended for children under age 18. The convoluted language in FDA’s response to the Biologic License Application (BLA) for Comirnaty preserves its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) status, and states that the product is “ready for approval,” but does not say it is “approved” for actually being administered to people. According to Mayer, Comirnaty is available in the UK, New Zealand, and other places, but not the U.S., because the company is “really scared of liability.”

If one fully approved product is available, she states that others could be at risk of losing their EUA (tinyurl.com/29y2j83w) and liability protection. Then they could not be used.

Note that Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s molnupiravir have been granted an EUA but are unapproved.

Lack of liability protection is the reason why millions of migrants and country-less people are being denied COVID-19 vaccines. Gavi, the vaccine alliance, has vaccine stockpiles, but can release deliveries only if vaccine-makers accept liability, since no government or nongovernmental organization (NGO) will do so (https://tinyurl.com/yck52c29).


Stare Decisis

This term’s major abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is about stare decisis, namely the extent to which members of this Court should defer to their predecessors’ opinions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, writes Andy Smarick.

While stare decisis is meant to be a conservative principle “in the sense of prizing continuity and predictability and preferring incremental to dramatic change,” progressive justices are the ones warning that overturning precedent due to political pressure would subvert the Court’s legitimacy.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed out in oral argument that “taking the history of stare decisis seriously requires acknowledging that many of the Court’s finest moments came when it overruled precedent. He cited cases related to ending racial discrimination, protecting voting rights, strengthening the rights of the accused, and more.” All current justices have voted to overturn precedents in recent terms.

Kavanaugh frames the issue as one of self-government, with the people, not judges, determining the moral dimensions of policy. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that Roe and Casey expand liberty and curtail state power. Chief Justice Roberts observed that many cases in the Roe [rights-creating] era might be viewed as wrongly decided. “That is,” Smarick writes, “Roberts likely meant that fixing that era’s mistakes would be an extensive enterprise that could destabilize the law so the Court should just let most of those mistakes be” (tinyurl.com/ycyzasnd).

Tip of the Month: Nearly a year later, the government is still pursuing law-abiding citizens who went to the political rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan 6, 2021. Even a few Americans who did not enter the Capitol, a taxpayer-funded building that should be open to the public, are being harassed. The government is searching  the internet looking for linkage between the rallies and individuals. It appears that the Deep State has become the equivalent of internet trolls, engaging in their investigations by merely surfing the internet. Is it time to leave social media and become active in old-fashioned ways, such as phone calls and private emails?


AAPS Files Amicus in Pain Doctor’s Case

On Dec 27, 2021, AAPS, along with Jeffrey Singer, M.D., filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to reverse the unjust conviction of Dr. Xiulu Ruan.

“The question presented, on which the circuits are deeply divided, is whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice may be convicted without regard to whether, in good faith, he ‘reasonably believed’ or ‘subjectively intended’ that his prescriptions fall within that course of professional practice.”

Dr. Ruan is serving a 21-year sentence in federal prison, based on a small fraction of his prescriptions for pain patients. That he was acting in good faith was shown by an unsuccessful undercover sting operation against him, but that evidence and testimony by supportive patients were all withheld from the jury. In addition, the jury was misled that Dr. Ruan could have called anyone he wanted as a witness, although he was only allowed to call patients used by the prosecution.

“Juries are not trained to establish the outer limits of a highly skilled profession,” writes attorney Andrew Schlafly. “The proper task for the jury is to determine whether defendant was acting in good faith, rather than try to ascertain the boundaries of his skilled profession. It is the ultimate injustice for a compassionate and dedicated physician to be imprisoned for the rest of his active life for practicing medicine in a manner he thought best, based on his extensive training, for his patients” (tinyurl.com/2p86xe7z).


The Jury vs. the Politicians

Our Founders recognized the importance of the jury as a protection for liberty and a mediating institution between the individual and the state. “The judgment of the jury in the Rittenhouse trial represents the antithesis of the comments of the politicians on its verdict,” writes John O. McGinnis of Northwestern University (https://tinyurl.com/2jx73t29). “It represents the decision of an informed group drawn together under rules of evidence to encourage reasoned judgment. The comments of the politicians are those of people uninformed by the evidence who have reason to play to the crowd rather than exercise judgment.”
Comments by politicians, such as Joe Biden saying he was “angered” by the verdict, remind us that “our Founders created the jury system in large part to prevent powerful leaders from putting people in jail to satisfy their own political imperatives.”

McGinnis is concerned that the current political culture and irresponsible media reporting threaten the jury system. And as the Ruan case shows, prosecutors and judges can prevent the jury from seeing evidence needed to reach a just verdict.


Correspondence

‘Your Pain Is Not My Pain.’ The days when politicians would routinely offer the “I feel your pain” proclamation in an attempt to get your vote are apparently over. These days, your pain is inconsequential. According to the Buffalo News, a patient’s spine surgery was cancelled because of New York’s dictator Kathy Hochul’s executive order to cancel nonessential surgery in facilities with fewer than 10% of staffed acute-care beds available, in case a COVID-19 surge occurred. The patient fired off emails to Erie County Medical Center executives, or those whose email addresses she could guess, and managed to persuade them that she was in intractable pain and there was a high risk of harm from delay. Her work schedule would have been upended, and she would have had to meet another deductible if the procedure had been delayed past Dec 31 (tinyurl.com/44fwhyf6). Radical “progressives” (socialists) in power are engaging in blatant discrimination. Those who have the ability and means to advocate

for needed medical care may have a chance of getting it. Those who do not are run over by the tyrants like in Tiananmen Square.

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Insurers Threatening Doctors. Amerihealth, a wholly owned subsidiary of Independence Blue Cross, which insures people in New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania, sent a threat letter to physicians about ivermectin. Not only did they say it was ineffective and that they wanted their members vaccinated, but they threaten to cut physicians who prescribe it out of the network. And worse yet, they threaten to report termination of the participation contract to the National Practitioner Data Bank.

Craig M. Wax D.O., Mullica Hill, NJ


The Source of Our Misery Is Obvious. When we sign contracts with ANY third party payer (private or government) we are no longer answering the call that drew us into what we thought was the noblest of professions. The payer, not the patient, has become the driving force behind every decision physicians make. It started under the guise of managing the cost of care. The last three decades have witnessed the net that once proud doctors find themselves caught in growing tighter and tighter. Unfortunately, the vast majority of new physicians have never known independence from corporate controls and have dutifully learned to play their game. The few remaining independent physicians are retiring or are already out of the arena. The traditional physician’s spirit has for all practical purposes been crushed. We need to renew the spirit of medicine (rsewell-independentsurgeon.com).

Robert Sewell, M.D., Decatur, TX


A German Schools Australians. In this video (https://tinyurl.com/23s3yjx7), a German tells Australians that their once free country is descending into a brutal totalitarianism. Will they, like Germans, be telling their grandchildren that “we didn’t know” and “we were just following orders”?

 Joseph Guarino, M.D., Reidsville, NC


Words for Today from 1948. As C.S. Lewis wrote: “In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year….’ Do not let us…exaggerat[e] the novelty of our situation…. You and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways…. Death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty…. “The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/2p9x596f


Comprehensive COVID-19 Summary. In my 2,100 hours of study, the best single summary I have found is the extensively referenced and hyperlinked commentary by Corey Mitchell, which everyone on planet earth needs to see (tinyurl.com/2p94bm4k).

Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC


Oath Breakers. In a fine essay that focuses on abuses by FBI agents, especially in intimidating citizens who simply showed up at the Jan 6, 2021, demonstration in D.C. (https://tinyurl.com/yckw2hwp), Jack Green quotes a retired FBI agent: “Current agents are just keeping their heads down and following orders.” All law enforcement officers, however, swear to uphold the Constitution, and there is nothing in the oath about obedience to leadership. The oath is taken by the military, by judges, by officials of all kinds, including members of Congress. I took the oath to
become a member of the Bar of Nebraska, Louisiana, and Texas. 

Those who refuse to violate citizens’ constitutional rights in service to a political agenda or to follow orders will pay a price. But it is a sacrifice they agreed to make when they took the oath as a requirement to exercise the power of the state.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


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AAPS News December 2021 – State of Emergency

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Volume 77, no. 12  December 2021

A state of emergency, as from a tornado, flood, wildfire, civil unrest, or even a plague, is temporary. Something that permanently cancels traditions, civil rights, existing law, family ties, friendships, and long-standing institutions is a revolution.

In 1665, the Black Plague killed up to 100,000 of London’s population of about 460,000, about 20%. The 1918 pandemic influenza killed about 675,000 of 103 million Americans, about 0.66%. To date, nearly 800,000 U.S. deaths are attributed to COVID-19, or 0.26%. It is said to have “become the deadliest pandemic in American history” (https://tinyurl.com/yu3nrk2n)—and the only one to threaten our way of life.

Alarming daily news reports about this respiratory virus continued, even when the excess all-cause mortality rate had fallen to nearly normal. The majority of adults responded by getting the COVID-19 jabs, yet the mortality rate is now rising rapidly (tinyurl.com/5bf2vb83). In 24 countries and 16 states, cases reached all-time highs after vaccine rollouts (tinyurl.com/4avtnbwf). The least vaccinated continent, Africa, with only 6% jabbed, is the least affected by COVID-19. Yet the Biden regime is blaming the unvaccinated and rushing to jab the one age group in which all-cause mortality is less than baseline (ages 0–14).

Does “the science” tell us to assume that things would have been even worse without the jabs?

The question of vaccine-caused damage and mortality is so radioactive that a press conference sponsored by U.S Senator Ron Johnson, featuring testimony by vaccine-injured people or their parents (tinyurl.com/9kx7v974) is suppressed. An edited version of a panel discussion with medical experts and patients held by Sen. Johnson is available on YouTube (tinyurl.com/26nf9m7y).

If this testimony were on network television, vaccination centers would be still emptier, even if Dr. Fauci followed with reassurances about rarity and coincidences. To the “benefits greatly outweigh the risks,” most people would reply that a one-in-a-million risk of that person’s horrible outcome is not worth it.

Civil Rights Emergency

The long tradition of liberty in Western countries is the target of extremist government measures that treat the unvaccinated as Untermenschen. Austria has become a dictatorship, stated Herbert Kickl of the “far-Right” Freedom party, which has also advocated “scientifically unproven” early treatment with drugs such as ivermectin. Austria entered its fourth national lockdown on Nov 22,  which is supposed to be lifted for fully vaccinated people by Dec 12. (“Fully vaccinated” status expires in 7 months.) In February, vaccination will be mandatory for all, with certain medical exceptions. Austria, said to be the least vaccinated country in Western Europe, will be the first to implement a universal mandate. Persuasion has not worked in 34%, noted Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, so now there will be fines, and prison for those who cannot or will not pay (https://tinyurl.com/wenyxwcr).

Throughout the world, millions were in the streets on Nov 20, protesting vaccine passports and COVID-19 vaccine mandates (tinyurl.com/949ezf89). U.S. mainstream media was only concerned about protests of the Rittenhouse not-guilty verdict.

In some places in India, persons with leprosy—formerly a lifelong, incurable disease—still cannot get a driver’s license or ride on trains. Otherwise, people have not, until now, been treated as pariahs because of health status, certainly not because they might contract a disease that would be contagious for 2 weeks. Recall the uproar about briefly quarantining people who had been exposed to Ebola. AIDS-infected victims were never subjected to government edicts barring them from private businesses or from employment or from receiving their pensions or needed goods and services. Today, there is outrage about the social discrimination that did occur (tinyurl.com/yufebenv).

Washington Post columnist and former Planned Parenthood head Leana Wen, M.D., said: “We need to start looking at the choice to remain unvaccinated the same as we look at driving while intoxicated.” Noam Chomsky said the unvaccinated should be isolated, and trouble getting food was “their problem” (ibid.).

Medical Emergency

The healthcare sector has lost nearly half a million workers since February 2020. Some 18% quit, and 12% were laid off. Vaccine mandates are likely to result in the loss of many more.

An article in The Atlantic blames poor pay and working conditions and the stress of dealing with COVID-19. “Most” patients, it claims, are unvaccinated and may be “belligerent and vocal.”  Some might have “yelled for hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, neither of which has any proven benefit for COVID-19.”

It is now much harder to get good medical care for anything, author Ed Jong notes. Workers suffer “moral distress” from being unable to do what they know is right (tinyurl.com/f8bkss78).


Moral Emergency

As stated by Jörg Hacker, former president of the Robert Koch Institut (2008–2010), “Almost all have participated or remained silent. For the violation of humanistic principles, for the breach of dignity and bodily integrity, there has never been a justification, even when the majority tolerates or actually demands it” [ed. translation] (tinyurl.com/sm6w5ude). As the current RKI head says there is an emergency, RKI might support  a mandate.


Precedent

During World War II, 120,000 Japanese men, women, children were hauled off without trial and imprisoned for 3 years or more in a hellish camp, on the basis of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. This was later legalized by Congress and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Korematsu v. U.S. The majority of the victims were U.S. citizens, some World War I veterans. Not one was ever found guilty of spying or sabotage for Tokyo, although 10 Caucasians were. Meanwhile, 156,000 persons of Japanese descent remained free in Hawaii, where only 4,000 leaders were imprisoned. The Supreme Court precedent stands, and not one single official was ever held accountable for up-ending the lives of innocent individuals (Richard Maybury’s Early Warning Report, December 2021).


‘A War Is Not Lost Until You Consider It Lost’

The attack on Pearl Harbor was based on the concept of Kantai Kessen, or the Decisive Battle Doctrine, which holds that a nation-state may hope to prevail over a much more powerful adversary only by bringing the opponent to battle on a field of the weaker nation’s choosing. The Pearl Harbor sneak attack was a brilliant tactical success for Japan, but a strategic catastrophe in the long run. Admiral Yamamoto issued the prophetic warning: “I fear that all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” Americans were furious, but did not seek the decisive battle the Japanese hoped for. Instead, they waited, building up their strength. The Imperial Japanese Navy lost the war the second the Americans refused to follow the script the Japanese had laid out for them (tinyurl.com/2p8u53xr).

Over the past year or two, all elements of the “Woke” contingent—media, universities, nongovernmental organizations, tech companies, radicals, the Democrat Party, “never-Trumper” Republicans, the Deep State, upper echelons of big business—have come together like a Japanese carrier group. The shock-and-awe campaign against the Deplorables might appear to be a smashing success. But: “it is all well and good to sink all the ships in Pearl Harbor, but what do you do if the enemy then refuses to concede defeat? Well, you lose, that’s what, provided your enemy can hold onto his patience, his resolve, and his nerve long enough” (https://tinyurl.com/2p9a4yey).

In America’s current class war, the imbalance between the credentialed classes with “email jobs” and the forgotten people who keep the lights on and the garbage from piling up, or drive trucks or fly planes, is even greater than that between America and Japan in World War II.  But how to direct this strength?


Music of the Resistance


Blind Joe: “I Will Not Comply” (tinyurl.com/yckzmp4e)

Sonic Universe: “Hold the Line” (https://tinyurl.com/v9w4j9c)

Five Times August: “Sad Little Man” (tinyurl.com/58ttnvzc)

NC Renegade: “Jesus, What Happened to Us?” (tinyurl.com/bwb6xyw3)

RC: “Just Say No!” (https://tinyurl.com/3vkejac2)


“The absence of moral scruple in pursuit of what is thought to be a public good is the first symptom of totalitarianism.”

Lord Sumpton, https://tinyurl.com/28tpvyfk


COVID Vaccination Red Flags

Neurologic Injury. In the 2.5 months after obtaining an EUA, Pfizer received reports of 158,893 adverse events, with 25,957 being “nervous system disorders.” Attorney Adam Siri testified that 11 physicians had serious neurologic effects dismissed by the medical system as psychogenic (https://tinyurl.com/393rb8zj).

PULS Cardiac Test. Protein biomarkers that predict the 5-year risk of acute coronary syndrome increase dramatically after mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers conclude that inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle may account for increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination (Circulation, Nov 8, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/2p8nfrby).

Deadly Lots. An investigation of VAERS reports showed that 100% of COVID-19 vaccine deaths with identified lot numbers were associated with just 5% of batches produced. These lot numbers were disproportionately sent to Republican-controlled states, researchers said (tinyurl.com/yc8aakfj).

Unpublishable Observations. An informal review of charts in a cardiology practice showed that 87 patients with previously stable conditions who received vaccine at a retail pharmacy  experienced various cardiac complications including sudden death; all had elevated troponins. Of 32 more privileged patients who received vaccine at an elite academic center, none had worsening of cardiac status and no troponin elevation. Generally, vaccination site is not used as a primary variable in VAERS. Clearly, not all lots or vaccination sites are equal.

UK Death Rates. According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), all-cause mortality in vaccinated people age 10–59 has been double that in unvaccinated people (about 2.9 vs. 1.4/100,000) since April 2021 (tinyurl.com/ytrnn5dk).

Heart Disease in Athletes. Since December 2020, 183 professional athletes, coaches, and college and youth athletes have abruptly collapsed, and 108 have died, mainly of cardiac problems. There were 21 cases of sudden unexpected death or sudden cardiac deaths in FIFA athletes, five times the pre-vaccination annual average of 4.2. Most have to have the COVID jab to be allowed to play (https://tinyurl.com/2p987fub).

Tumors. There are no studies of carcinogenicity of COVID vaccines. VigiAccess, a WHO database, reports 3,709 cases of “neoplasms”; the UK’s Yellow Card system, 731 neoplasms; and VAERS, hundreds of brain, breast, oral, skin, and colon cancers that appeared suddenly (tinyurl.com/2p9c87nx). Pathologist Ryan Cole pinpoints possible mechanisms (https://tinyurl.com/2p8fzavj) at an AAPS-sponsored Texas summit on COVID-19 vaccines (https://tinyurl.com/3hs583sj).

AAPS Calendar

February 11-12, 2022. Winter meeting, Florida.

October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Missouri, TBA


ACTION OF THE MONTH

If you offer early treatment for COVID-19 by protocol similar to those at c19protocols.com, please add your name to a list we are compiling to help patients at bit.ly/covidearlytx.


Can Patients Drop out of Medicare?

Only patients who pay Premium-Part A can drop Part A. To drop out of Part B, patients need to send Social Security a signed written request. Anyone who wants to get back in will have to wait until the next General Enrollment Period (Jan 1–Mar 31), and coverage won’t start until July. Also, a monthly late enrollment penalty based on the time without coverage will be charged as long as the person has Part B (tinyurl.com/2ke9t4dj).

In 2022, Part B monthly premiums will increase by 14.5%, from $148.50 to $170.10, more if one’s modified adjusted gross income was $88,000 or more (for single individual) 2 years ago. 

Patients are asking about dropping out of Part B because they feel it is not worth it. Also, they cannot get non-Medicare-approved services except from an opted-out physician, though most are not yet aware of this.


OK Bill Would Allow Suits for Vaccine Damage

Oklahoma Senate Bill 1106 would allow employees to sue their employers for up to $1 million over medical issues connected to treatments required as a condition for employment. Commenters noted that this was not nearly enough to replace lifetime income and benefits but would send a message. They asked who would decide whether a COVID-19 shot was responsible. A few said that those who agreed to take the shot shared in the responsibility (https://tinyurl.com/3u6yw2n3).


OSHA Mandate Blocked in Fifth Circuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has reaffirmed its stay on enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring all businesses with 100 or more employees to require COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing. It slammed this rule as “staggeringly overbroad” and “fatally flawed,” and said it “grossly exceeds OSHA’s statutory authority” (tinyurl.com/yckwx9r4).

The vaccine mandate “threatens to substantially burden the liberty interests of reluctant individual recipients,” wrote Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt. “Likewise, the companies seeking a stay in this case will also be irreparably harmed in the absence of a stay, whether by the business and financial effects of a lost or suspended employee, compliance and monitoring,… or stiff financial penalties on companies that refuse to punish or test unwilling employees” (https://tinyurl.com/ss9jrxy9).

The mandate does not allow consideration of natural immunity. Tests must be performed by a laboratory or proctored. Extensive record-keeping is required. Since OSHA has only 1,850 inspectors, enforcement would have to rely on snitches.

“While OSHA remains confident in its authority to protect workers in emergencies, OSHA has suspended activities related to the implementation and enforcement of the ETS pending future developments in the litigation,” according to its website (https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/ets2).

Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, along with the AMA, told businesses to implement the mandate anyway. The Administration is confident that it has the authority to impose the rule and is still working under the guise that businesses will meet the Jan 4 deadline, Psaki said (https://tinyurl.com/yanu8a2u).


Tip of the Month: The DEA fully accepts a home address as the principal place of business of a physician. But guess what? That subjects his home to unexpected inspections at any time, based merely on an administrative subpoena rather than a real warrant signed by a judge. The Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures of one’s home are waived by anyone who uses a home address on his DEA registration. Also, “an individual practitioner or mid-level practitioner whose DEA-registered location is a home must comply with the established recordkeeping requirements (see 21 CFR 1304 and 1305) and security requirements,” the DEA recently announced.


CMS Mandate Challenged

The CMS mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccination of everyone who works in a healthcare facility that receives federal funding has been challenged by at least three lawsuits.

A case brought by the attorneys general of Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia alleges that the mandate violates the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by seeking “to commandeer state-employee surveyors to become enforcers of CMS’s unlawful attempt to federalize national vaccine policy and override the States’ police power on matters of health and safety” (tinyurl.com/mrxbjmdx). 

A case brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton states that “amid a harrowing worker shortage, the Biden Administration has prioritized this unlawful vaccine mandate over the healthcare of all Americans” (tinyurl.com/2p8dax4e).

The Missouri suit, joined by Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, states that CMS violated the Administrative Procedure Act and ignores circumstances that “foreshadow an impending disaster in the healthcare industry” (tinyurl.com/yckv5mrm).


Pending Litigation

Natural Immunity. Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., sued the Univ. of California over COVID-19 vaccine mandates in recovered patients. The CDC, stated attorney Adam Siri, cannot cite a single instance in which a recovered patient has transmitted COVID, though vaccinated persons have (tinyurl.com/5eayuset). Dr. Keriaty was placed on investigatory leave (tinyurl.com/9jt5hsnu).

FOIA Complaint. In Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency v. FDA, PHMPT seeks to obtain data relied upon by  FDA to license the Pfizer Vaccine (tinyurl.com/48jacpdd). FDA has asked the judge to give it until 2076 to release the 329,000+ pages of documents, at the rate of 500 pages/month. FDA purportedly reviewed them all in 108 days (tinyurl.com/tvb2jv54).

Hospitals’ Treatment Bans. Lawsuits demanding that hospitals allow ivermectin use in dying patients have mixed results. DuPage County Circuit Judge Paul Fullerton ordered a hospital to step aside and allow Alan Bain, D.O., to administer the drug; the patient is recovering (tinyurl.com/2p93xm2b). Chief Justice Bonnie Sudderth of the Texas Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth reversed a trial court decision, and Texas Health Hughely is blocking administration of the drug (tinyurl.com/4yna667c). Mary Talley Bowden, M.D., who recommended it, had her privileges suspended by Houston Methodist (tinyurl.com/2p97bhnu).


Correspondence

Support the Jab—or Else. After a hospital complained to the licensure board about a doctor’s writing medical exemptions for its employees, the board suspended his license for 30 days, alleging deceit, fraud, or unprofessional conduct. It is open season on doctors who fail to bow down to the vaccine idol.

Doctors who reject the COVID-19 jab for themselves, for whatever reason, often have their employment terminated, and this may not be the end of the matter. The hospital or university may lure the doctor into resigning, while withholding the fact that a peer review investigation is underway. If the doctor has an automatic termination-of-medical-staff-privileges provision in his contract, the hospital can report to the National Practitioner Data Bank that he has “resigned while under or to avoid investigation,” with no right to a peer review hearing or appeal. AAPS has saved many careers by advising doctors not to resign in these situations.

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Notification. I received a notice in the monthly electronic newsletter from the Maine licensure board citing the Federation of State Medical Board’s statement about “COVID-19 vaccine misinformation” (tinyurl.com/5ru7b968) and the joint supporting statement from the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics (tinyurl.com/4kj53fek). The Maine Board “also applies this standard to all misinformation regarding Covid-19, including non-verbal treatments and preventative measures. Physicians…who spread Covid-19 misinformation, or practice based on such misinformation, erode public trust in the medical profession and may endanger patients.” Treatments and recommendations that “fall below the standard of care as established by medical experts,” or issuing a vaccine exemption without an “appropriate” examination and without finding a “legitimate medical reason…within the standard of care” may place a doctor’s license at risk.

Michael Ciampi, M.D., South Portland, ME


Non-vaccine Is Failing. Joe Biden’s own senior health officials such as CDC Director Walensky have been telling us since August that the COVID-19 shot does not prevent infection or  transmission of the virus. That’s why the CDC changed its official definition of the term “vaccine” to exclude the term “immunity.”  They say you must take the shot because it may prevent serious illness, but we know there are plenty of other things that may prevent serious illness from the virus—such as ivermectin. On Nov 4, Nature reported a study of 800,000 veterans 6 months after the shot. Between March and November, the effectiveness of the Moderna shot fell from 85% to 58%; Pfizer, from 85% to 45%; and J&J, from 86% to 15%. Factoring in natural immunity, one could argue that the vaccines are nearly worthless. Resistance to the  mandate is growing, with thousands preferring to be fired rather than taking the shot. With the country on the edge of an economic abyss, Biden is doubling down. How far is he willing to go to enforce this tyranny?

Ron Paul, M.D.,  https://tinyurl.com/py3kn5ev


Will There Be Abortion Mandates? Hitler had them. China had them. The Biden Administration gave the UN $5 million for abortion drugs and devices (https://tinyurl.com/pskbj2c).

Joseph M. Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


A Worst Disaster than Imagined. This devastating analysis of VAERS (tinyurl.com/2drzwbr5) shows that the magnitude of  adverse events to COVID-19 “vaccines” is stunning.  Myocarditis is acknowledged, but more than 200 symptoms occur at an even higher rate relative to other vaccines. Female reproductive issues top the list. This experiment may have killed more than 150,000 Americans and permanently disabled many more.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


Marxism Comes to America. When I was growing up under Soviet-style communism in Romania, we experienced tyranny and deprivation. Now, in the U.S., there are looming shortages, falsified data, bribes for a COVID diagnosis, indefinite detention of citizens without charges, denial of life-saving drugs not on the NIH protocol, strip-searches even without an arrest, and refusal of care to noncompliant persons. Doctors’ visits have been transformed into virtual pretend-care. American Marxists, who are both “D’s” and “R’s,” can easily cut access to necessities and your bank account. The old communists had to hire an army of informers and wiretappers to get a fraction of the information that now resides with our techie controllers. They had Pravda. America has an alphabet soup of fake media to spread propaganda. With technology, Marxism is much worse.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/bduwvfcm


Medicare Ad Blitz. Celebrities such as Joe Namath and William Shatner are on TV urging seniors to get benefits like dental care, eyeglasses, and free rides to the clinic when they sign up for Medicare Advantage plans—which are restricted-access networks. Noncompliant physicians are terminated when they do not follow company rules specifying access to them and the content and value of the medical care they provide.

Lee Beecher, M.D., Maple Grove, MN


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AAPS News October 2021 – Desperation and Hope



Volume 77, no. 10  October 2021

More and more businesses are going bankrupt, and more and more Americans are facing unemployment and poverty as coercive measures tighten. What is really going on? Is it just a virus with a 99.9+% survival rate? There are hints behind the impossible plot in David Baldacchi’s thriller Total Control. Reissued in 2019 but written 23 years ago (as one might guess from the starring role of a floppy disk), it portrays the power of the Federal Reserve and the technology industry—and its penetration into the FBI. Like the lead character, we must all ask, “Whom can we trust?”

The Digital-Financial Complex

The situation is unique in the history of the world, states German financial journalist Ernst Wolff in an Oct 19, 2019, essay  (tinyurl.com/452vj3ry) and an August 2021 lecture on “Uncovering the Corona Narrative” (tinyurl.com/2x6kjwkr). Never before has the entire world been placed under such a coercive regime.

Wolff quotes Franklin Roosevelt, who said that nothing in politics happens by accident; you can bet that it was planned.

Government policies have not contained SARS-CoV-2, but they have wrecked the global economy. Supply chains are broken; harvests are being lost; essential semiconductors are scarce. The constant threat of new restrictions keeps problems from being solved. In China, the third largest port terminal in the world was shut down because of a single positive test in a worker.

Who can benefit from driving small and medium-size businesses to the wall by constant uncertainty and harsher regulation? These are the biggest source of jobs and tax revenue.

The principal profiteer and the most important string-puller, Wolff explains, is the digital-financial complex: the largest information technology (IT) concerns headed by the leading asset managers of our time. These include Apple, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. The market capitalization of these companies alone is $5.1 trillion; the combined GDP of Germany, France, and Italy is $8.6 trillion. The biggest asset managers—BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and Fidelity are significantly involved in all IT companies. Together they manage $220.6 trillion; the combined GDP of all 28 countries of the EU amounted to $15.7 trillion. In addition, IT companies control hundreds of thousands of other companies because they organize the digital systems and thus have a constant overview of their data streams.

“The IT industry is nothing other than a tumor that over past years has metastasized into all other branches of the economy, to make them dependent on it and to completely dominate them,” Wolff states. Also, the asset managers are involved in every large undertaking and are able to influence every popular brand in the world. BlackRock’s Aladdin Data Cloud has the greatest accumulation of financial information that the world has ever seen, which it uses behind the scenes to influence the largest central banks, e.g. the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (EZB). So we have a unique historic mix of raw financial power and discretionary power over an unimaginably gigantic data pool. These companies had a huge business upswing in this crisis, gaining the largest profits in their entire history in a single quarter, and their advantage is continuously accelerating.

The digital-financial complex is the global power center, which drives everything. It stands far above all governments, and is in a position at any time to bring every government in the world to its knees, states Wolff. The perception that it is undermining the very system from which it profits misses the reality: the digital-financial complex has no choice but to continue its present course.

The current system can no longer be kept alive. It was very close to death in the world financial crisis of 2007-2008 and would have collapsed had central banks not created massive amounts of money out of nothing. Over the next 12 years, 700 decreases in interest rates have made the system ever more unstable. In March 2020, the threatened collapse was postponed only through the reduction of interest rates to zero and a final injection of billions of fiat currency. What now? Total collapse of the banking system through negative interest rates, or worthless money?

Wolff writes that the digital-financial complex is preparing a new system, while plundering the dying one.  The new system will  destroy cash and normal banking, and introduce digital money from central banks, which can be created in infinite amounts. It enables governments to oversee and control all transactions, easily impose differential taxes and fines, and cancel our ability to make any transactions. It enables an all-encompassing dictatorship accomplished through money. To prevent enormous social unrest resulting from gradual introduction, the digital-financial complex has apparently developed the brilliant strategy of turning the situation around: Cause social chaos first and introduce digital money as the answer in the form of the universal basic income (UBI). Out of maximum chaos, even to the extent of worldwide civil war, bring maximum control in the guise of humanitarian aid.

The situation in American medicine (see p 2) fits into the Wolff’s scenario for the general economy. COVID-19, or COVID-1984 as it was called at the AAPS 78th annual meeting, is a catalyst for the Great Reset (AAPS NewsNovember 2020).

But desperation is forcing the globalists to cross ever more red lines. Their window of opportunity could be ours. By exposing their lies, we could use the crisis to turn the direction of human history and open the door to a new and better era.


Desperation and U.S. Medicine

Conveniently, COVID kills mainly the elderly, and mortality from delays in cancer screening or other forgone care disproportionately affect older patients. Also, there has been a massive increase in the number of Do Not Resuscitate Orders (DNRs), and hospitals have considered “universal DNRs” for any COVID-positive patient (https://tinyurl.com/yp4mkckn).

Since 1965, AAPS has warned that Medicare is unsustainable, as is Social Security. As the tsunami of retiring Baby Boomers hits, the 2020s are “the decade of fiscal reckoning,” writes David Stockman (https://tinyurl.com/377acsse). Between 2020 and 2030, under the Congressional Budget Office’s overly optimistic assumptions, Social Security spending will burgeon from $1.091 trillion to $1.835 trillion; federal civilian and military retirement benefits from $173 billion to $227 billion; and Medicare from $862 billion to $1.61 trillion.

U.S. corporate medicine and the pharmaceutical industry are giant stakeholders in the digital financial complex. Its corporate oligarchs pass through a revolving door into federal agencies such as CDC, NIH, and FDA, dominating the network that dictates conventional wisdom. The top three Pfizer shareholders are  Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street (tinyurl.com/3ch43yrv).

“Beneficiaries” are unfunded liabilities of the government-digital-financial complex, which is desperate.


Excess COVID-Related Deaths

The press has called 2020 the UK’s deadliest year since World War II, ignoring the massive increase in population. By the Age-Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR), 2020 isn’t even the worst year since 2000. In fact, since 1943 only 9 years have been better than 2020. In the U.S. the ASMR for 2020 is only at 2004 levels (tinyurl.com/2te9ksmb). Nearly everywhere, the median age of “COVID death” has exceeded life expectancy (ibid.).

How much morbidity and mortality is acceptable to combat a disease less lethal than many previous pandemics? VigiAccess, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) publicly accessible database, shows more than 2 million possible COVID vaccine injuries in 2021 alone, with 69% occurring in female patients and 39% in 18–44-year-olds (https://tinyurl.com/xjfeu7d7).

A VAERS under-reporting multiplier of 41 was calculated by Jessica Rose, Ph.D., based on the rate of anaphylaxis reported in JAMA, of 2.47/10,000 (tinyurl.com/3suy44br), compared with 583 cases/97.5 million reported to VAERS. Applying this multiplier and also using other methods, Rose calculated that  more than 150,000 Americans, including 600 children, may have died because of COVID vaccines (tinyurl.com/4jwrbn9p).

In 2021, excess deaths in 29 EU countries are as great as in 2020, and trending upward,  but the age distribution has shifted to younger groups (tinyurl.com/bkybjv4a). In England, most of the excess mortality is from cardiovascular disease. Could this be from the vaccination campaign (https://tinyurl.com/2crfnaaz)?


“The Berlin Wall didn’t fall because the East German government said, ‘Let’s pass a bill. We’ll finally tear down this wall. The people deserve freedom.’ The wall fell because people no longer gave their consent to live under tyranny. We have reason, logic, and science on our side. We need only courage, resolve, and hard work, and we will prevail.” —Marc Morano


Lessons from the Holocaust

Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established a “biocracy,” which ultimately murdered millions of innocent persons. Contrary to a prevalent myth, doctors were not forced to participate.  Doctors and nurses had a peculiarly strong attraction to the Nazi philosophy. Nearly 50% of physicians had joined the Nazi party by 1945, much higher than any other profession, and were seven times more likely to join the SS than other employed German males. Why? To the Nazis, the Reich was a living body, and those who did not contribute were a “disease.” Euthanasia was “humane” and a “private matter” between patients and doctors. Moreover, it was “good science,” and science was god. Legality trumped morality. If medicine is to survive as a profession of healing, writes Ashley Fernandes (tinyurl.com/56r24t5j), physicians must affirm that the ultimate unit of value of human life is the individual person—not the collective.


COVID-19: the Great Reset

In his book by this title, World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab admits that “the corona crisis is (so far) one of the least deadly pandemics the world has experience [sic] over the last 2000 years.” However, it may compel us to “act faster by replacing failed ideas, institutions, processes and rules.” It is the globalists’ “greatest cause for hope”—of world government, central planning of all aspects of life, and leveling differences in standards of living.

Behind the noble-sounding ambitions, what is the real agenda, asks Joaquin Flores in “The Great Reset Morality: Euthanization of the Inessentials”? Genocide? Enslavement? A combination of the two? (https://tinyurl.com/2m5639bm).

Our great hope to preserve our freedom, our individual rights, and self-governance is that the pack of lies is collapsing, Wolff writes. The media’s vehemence testifies not to strength but to weakness. The credibility of those who led us into this disaster is being buried deeper day by day. We need a vast and comprehensive program of enlightenment.


Products of Human Vivisection

Controversy over COVID-19 “vaccines” has increased awareness of the market for “fresh” material from aborted human fetuses. Especially disturbing is Pamela Acker’s statement that “the babies are still alive when the researchers start extracting the tissue.” Fetal cell lines are involved in all U.S. COVID vaccines (tinyurl.com/9wbznx9z), and in testing Regeneron’s monoclonal antibodies (tinyurl.com/47d7mymk). The abortion industry confidently anticipates greater demand (tinyurl.com/5mrutt3z).


AAPS Calendar

Nov. 6 – Missouri Chapter Meeting featuring panel on COVID Office-Based Treatment

February 2022. Winter meeting, Florida, TBA

October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Missouri, TBA


ACTION OF THE MONTH

If you offer early treatment for COVID-19 by protocol similar to those at c19protocols.com, please add your name to a list we are compiling to help patients at bit.ly/covidearlytx.


Is Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Lawful?

Attorney Jonathan Emord writes that the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate on companies with 100 or more employees will “sink in a legal quagmire,” a “litigation maelstrom the likes of which the nation has not seen since employers sued in overwhelming numbers to invalidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s failed National Industrial Recovery Act.” Grounds for challenge include the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment; the Tenth Amendment; the Separation of Powers doctrine; the Americans with Disabilities Act; and Title VII of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, which protects against religious discrimination (https://tinyurl.com/kfuxt75x).

Some claim that the Biden mandate is a bluff, and point out that as of Oct 10 no rule had been issued by the enforcement agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Joy Pullman of The Federalist states that the Administration is imposing the public perception of a mandate by following an unusual rule-making process, an emergency temporary standard or ETS. But even through the ETS, it takes up to 6 months for a rule to go into effect after it is issued in the Federal Register. It isn’t there yet, but companies are telling reporters their vaccine mandates will have, at the latest, December deadlines.

Pullman observed that “using the ETS procedure…allows the Biden administration to push its demands faster and without any public input or requirement of responding to public input.” 

“That is part of why ETS rules have been overwhelmingly overturned in courts,” she wrote. But because there is no mandate for them to bring to court, the nearly two dozen Republican attorneys general who have threatened to sue on constitutional grounds have not yet filed.

 Companies comply because of potential sanctions, especially if they are dependent on federal contracts or regulators’ good will. Fines in the $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill run as high as $700,000 for willful or repeated violations (tinyurl.com/26ansfpz).

This back-door plan shows the “dark brilliance of administrative state authoritarians,” writes Alex Berenson.


Pending COVID-Related Litigation

Southwest Airlines Pilots Association: SWAPA claims that carrier has taken unilateral actions that violate terms of the Railway Labor Act, which governs relations between airlines and employee unions, in mandating the jab. In addition, it notes that pilots are at a unique risk because adverse reactions to a vaccine could affect their ability to pass periodic medical examinations required to maintain their license. The union wants to negotiate how such instances would be covered by long-term disability policies. (https://tinyurl.com/ywkmnsck).

Religious Discrimination in Colorado:  The Thomas More Society is suing  the University of Colorado’s Anschutz School of Medicine on behalf of a Catholic and a Buddhist student whose religious exemptions were denied. An exemption is available only to those whose religions oppose all immunizations (https://tinyurl.com/ywcc2whf).

Kaiser Permanente: This giant corporation has placed about 5,000 of its 200,000 employees on unpaid leave for not getting the jab, and has reneged on many religious exemptions. In United KP Freedom Alliance v. Kaiser Permanente, case 4-21-cv-07894 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Oakland Division, plaintiffs ask for injunctive relief and damages, including exemplary and punitive damages (https://tinyurl.com/74j23jts).

“Kaiser Permanente asserts that it is merely following CDC guidelines,” states America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS). But as the nation’s largest healthcare employer, Kaiser wields enormous power, and has an incestuous relationship with policymakers.  The Complaint shows that Kaiser dominates both the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), which makes recommendations to the CDC, and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which makes recommendations to the FDA.

The Complaint distinguishes the case from the Jacobson v. Massachusetts precedent. First, Jacobson applied a small one-time financial penalty but not a severe penalty such as unemployment or unemployability. Second, COVID has a 0.1% infection fatality rate, which is not remotely similar to the 33% death rate in the 1905 smallpox outbreak (https://tinyurl.com/3kkn7dhd).


Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of AAPS v. FDA

Without reaching the merits, the Court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the AAPS case against FDA for withholding millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine donated to the National Strategic Stockpile, citing lack of standing (https://tinyurl.com/5dwmek7c). AAPS “failed to plausibly plead that any member has been injured by the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it criticizes,” the Court held. The Court ducked the issue of FDA’s intimidating statements that could have caused the preventable death of hundreds of thousands by denial of safe early COVID-19 treatment. “Much of the opinion is unjustified legal theorizing about the doctrine of legal standing, while lives are at stake,” states AAPS counsel Andrew Schlafly. “The Court did recognize that the FDA cannot interfere with off-label prescribing.” For a timeline of the litigation, see https://aapsonline.org/hcqsuit/.


Religious Liberty Upheld

New York must continue to allow healthcare workers to seek exemptions from a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds as a lawsuit challenging the requirement proceeds. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued a preliminary injunction in a case brought by 17 plaintiffs. Unlike other judges ruling in similar cases, Hurd concluded “the public interest lies with enforcing the guarantees enshrined in the Constitution and federal anti-discrimination law” and not the wider public health. Plaintiffs oppose any medical cooperation in abortions. Their identities are kept private because they fear retaliation (tinyurl.com/2de65msh).

Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the vaccine mandate violates  religious liberty and issued a temporary restraining order in Magliulo v. Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, No. 3:21-cv-2304 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The Judge found that restrictions that would interfere with dissenting students’ right to graduate defeat the purpose of having a right to dissent. These included barring unvaccinated students from participating in Standardized Patient Examinations and Early Clinical Experiences. Doughty further ruled that the school is not allowed to retaliate or discriminate against the students for filing proceedings (https://tinyurl.com/2upwx2ek).


Correspondence

Bad Time to Get Sick in NY State. Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York’s new dictator, has ordered that all healthcare workers at all NYS hospitals must be vaccinated by Sept 27th, or placed on unpaid administrative leave or terminated. The royal proclamation did not include any exemptions. Thus, if a person has a known allergy to polyethylene glycol, best prepare to risk death so as to uphold the order. This dictatorial mandate also affects rehabilitation and long-term care facilities, where some employees are also refusing to submit to vaccines. That will create a “back-up effect” much like a clogged sewer line outside one’s home.  Erie County Medical Center, the region’s only level-one trauma center, will not be able to transfer patients to these facilities because of lack of sufficient staff, and those patients will remain in ECMC occupying beds. ECMC could lock out 400 staff members (Buffalo News 9/25/21). The proposed solution to this pending massive shortage of workers, getting replacement staff from temp agencies, is pure fairy tale. The demand will far outstrip the supply.

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Orwell’s Inspiration. This will probably be my last month at my federally qualified health clinic as I shall not comply with the vaccine mandate. I will “die on this hill.” This is 1932 Germany.

It is still the early phase of the “owners” resisting any change in their status. They seek to impose further losses on all non-owners as the system crumbles. The roots of the Great Reset agenda can be traced back 80 years, described in James Burnham’s book The Managerial Revolution. This ideology triggered Orwell to write 1984 (tinyurl.com/ejxy5jdb).

I believe we have only begun the most trying decade of our lives. I am doing what I can on the information front, treating patients while still permitted, and growing vegetables.

John Day, M.D., Austin, TX, johndayblog.com


Academia Is a Lethal Toxin. After I earned two terminal degrees in professional schools and spent some time on a university medical faculty, I realized the universities were going to destroy us as a society and take us down as a civilization. Academic tyranny and totalitarian thinking, exemplifying Angelo Codevilla’s concept of the Ruling Class and their army of “experts,” has now invaded the professions, so now “consensus” thinking is dominant and eliminates good science. As Scott Forman writes, “universities are the key to the cultural and political domination of the country by progressive elites because they alone can grant credentials” (https://tinyurl.com/3h58w8m5).   

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


No Safety Mechanism. I have chaired data safety monitoring boards (DSMBs) for more than two dozen therapeutic products, for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Big Pharma corporations. The threshold for shutting down a program is a few cases of unexplained serious adverse events. If we get to 50 unexplained deaths in a release of a product, it’s gone. The 1976 swine flu vaccine campaign was suspended after just 10 weeks due to 25 sudden deaths and 550 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome following vaccination. In contrast, with our current COVID-19 gene-transfer vaccination campaign, we are far beyond that. There are no external advisory committees, no human ethics committee, no DSMB. A DSMB would have shut the program down in February. A person is more likely to die after the vaccine than after COVID itself. Yet coercion to take the vaccine is going on in lockstep worldwide. This can’t be about the virus, or about money. It’s about a totalitarian takeover that’s occurred all over the world. Something very dark is going on (tinyurl.com/yhjtt3ne).

Peter McCullough, M.D., Dallas, TX


Shutting Down Scientific Inquiry. A few days after journalist Alex Newman wrote an article about a paper on climate change by nearly two dozen experts in solar physics, a “fact-checker” website financially supported by Facebook, TikTok, Google News Initiative, and others declared the article to be “incorrect” and “misleading.” Facebook then began censoring any posts sharing the link. A “fact-check fact check” using the site’s own framework showed that its farcical “fact check” was guilty of 11 of the 14 classes of misinformation the website warns against, while Newman’s article contained none of them. Why is science reporting being subjected to fact checking by non-experts? A weaponized “fact check,” which apparently began with “climate change,” is nothing more than a narrative check (tinyurl.com/3mwarv9u).

Willie Soon, Ph.D.,  Salem, MA


Resisting the Reset. Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom has launched a “Don’t Be Bullied” campaign, with billboards already placed in several states. It advocates for the right of the individual to make an informed choice (https://tinyurl.com/r76aunah).

 Twila Brase, R.N., cchfreedom.org


Hospitals Violate Rights. TruthforHealth.org shows how U.S. hospitals are denying  life-saving medication for COVID-19, even antibiotics, corticosteroids, or anticoagulants; coercing patients into dangerous and expensive treatment plans; and forcibly secluding them. Some have even been denied the right to sign out (tinyurl.com/uztnd9af).

Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., Tucson, AZ

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AAPS News September 2021 – The Keystone

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Volume 77, no. 9  September 2021     

After decades of incrementalism, with surrender of rights in exchange for promised safety or “benefits,” it is becoming plain that neither a nation nor an individual can be half slave and half free. You either have unalienable rights—or you don’t.

If you need an exemption to avoid an action that you believe immoral or potentially lethal, you have no right to liberty.

Medicine, it is said, is the keystone in the arch of socialism. But what about in the structure of freedom? If we abolish the right to bodily integrity, will all freedom collapse?

The elusive SARS-CoV-2 virus might kill fewer than one in a thousand generally healthy people that it infects, but it might be the pretext for completing the destruction of freedom.

Who’s in Charge?

KMED talk show host Bill Meyer asked this question, as have many others. Most of the time, the answer is NOT your doctor.

If you are in the hospital or seen by an employed or a contracted physician, your treatment will be determined by protocol. Doctors who deviate are likely to be fired. Hydroxychloroquine is generally not allowed, but prohibitions go much further. One physician who works in a physician-owned clinic was not allowed to order home oxygen or prednisone. One hospital posted a sign in big red letters: NO vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, or ivermectin.

Physicians may be pressured to give remdesivir (Veklury™), convalescent plasma, or baricitinib (Olumiant™) in combination with remdesivir to unlock a potential bonus payment of up to $20,000 to the hospital from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (https://tinyurl.com/4kspczaf). Under the PrEP act, the hospital enjoys full liability protection when using these “covered” treatments. Still, remdesivir is losing popularity because of ineffectiveness and frequent renal and other organ failure.

The global war against hydroxychloroquine began very early, and recently the attack on early treatment has added ivermectin as that drug has gained attention. The FDA launched a Twitter campaign @US_FDA: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” The message warns that use of this drug to treat COVID-19 “can be dangerous and even lethal.”

The AMA and its constituent societies leapt into action, warning about increasing calls to poison control centers. AMA,  together with American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) issued a press release stating that they “strongly oppose the ordering, prescribing, or dispensing of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial” (https://tinyurl.com/py5jvt8a). Physicians disagree. They have been writing about 88,000 prescriptions weekly, and. the Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, Haruo Ozaki, recommended that all doctors in Japan immediately begin using ivermectin to treat COVID (https://tinyurl.com/292wbnsv). But many American pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions, telling the patient and the doctor that “we read the data.”

A Needle in Every Arm

The only permitted answer is the shot. Immunity doesn’t matter. Having antibodies and T-cells does not get you a “green pass.” Having the shot does not prevent infection. Vaccinated and unvaccinated shed virus. Israel, the most vaccinated country in the world, is having a massive outbreak, with more COVID-19 infections per capita than any country in the world. But does the shot prevent hospitalization and death? In the UK, a majority of the COVID-19 deaths last month were among vaccinated people, with a death rate dramatically higher than a year ago, when there was no vaccine (tinyurl.com/y3eszkpz). Could the vaccine be worsening the situation? Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA vaccines, suggests that the vaccine is leading to escape mutants (tinyurl.com/9ppepjz3). It might create a “monoculture” immunity, like monoculture agriculture. A new strain might wipe out a population that had only very narrow immunity.

In the U.S., authorities claim that we are having a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Are almost all the hospitalized or dying patients unvaccinated? Nurses on the frontlines who have access to patient charts say no. Whom should we believe?

Denialism prevails on unexpected post-jab deaths. The CDC asserts that the risk of death from [untreated] COVID is greater than vaccine risk (https://tinyurl.com/st4fk34v). However, in the period Jun 26-Jul 9, about 4,000 deaths following the shots were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), while 3,000 U.S. COVID deaths were reported by Worldometer. Statistics are problematic, especially because of  diagnostic uncertainties involving the cycle threshold of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests that have been used as the primary test to diagnose millions of COVID cases (tinyurl.com/2rz82w9m). 

If the virus were the threat, and saving lives the object, all available weapons would be used, especially early treatment, and  open discussion and accurate reporting would be required. It appears instead that the virus is the ally of those who want to destroy the keystone of freedom, and to rule over a compliant population that dutifully shows up for its periodic booster.

“There will be NO return to the old normal”—say Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization (tinyurl.com/55u4bvw). The anointed experts will rule, with the aid of the profiteers, once the keystone crumbles.


Showdown

A showdown is imminent for thousands or millions of once-“essential” workers, who have been serving the public since the beginning of the pandemic, if they decline to take the jab. “Once heroes, we’re now zeroes.” Religious freedom is gone in Washington State, denied by Gov. Inslee; 295 state troopers may be fired (tinyurl.com/efzype77). Health and privacy concerns are irrelevant; millions of veteran nurses may be lost (https://tinyurl.com/2dcxpypu). As many as half of front-line workers have declined the jab (https://tinyurl.com/mkvwpecz). No more free speech: Biden allies are instructing cell phone carriers to censor anti-vaccine texts (https://tinyurl.com/d8cfvknn).


COVID News

Disinfection by Light: Israel’s Ichilov Hospital is the first to use the J. Protect system, made by Israeli start-up Juganu, to disinfect spaces, starting in the imaging departments. Lower-level UV-A can be used while people are present, and UV-C when the room is empty, to deactivate all bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including COVID-1, in less than one hour. The technology, called  The Foam, goes directly into pre-existing light fixtures and can be used in any enclosed space (https://tinyurl.com/n8uk4r99).


HHS Disrupting Monoclonal Antibodies Use: After demonizing nearly every medication with the potential to reduce the severity of COVID-19 symptoms, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finally recommended monoclonal antibodies earlier this summer. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opened infusion centers, and hospitalizations declined 20%. Centers were able to order as much as they needed. But now a federal commission will decide when, if, and how much a center can get (tinyurl.com/3xcfykvp).


Product Suspensions: Brazil suspended use of 12 million doses of Chinese-made vaccine that were produced in an unauthorized plant (tinyurl.com/yd2ev6x6). Japanese authorities suspended the use of 2.6 million doses of Moderna vaccine because of visible contamination (tinyurl.com/srhj5vfc). Black particles were found to be stainless steel (tinyurl.com/zuu2c8fd).


Vernon S. (“Bud”) Goltry, M.D., R.I.P.

America just lost a valiant warrior for freedom and ethical medicine to COVID. At age 86, ENT surgeon Bud Goltry was still operating, and fighting corporate medicine in Boise, Idaho, virtually single-handed. He wrote to AAPS on Aug 8 about “The Deadly Politicization of America’s Medical Care,” and on Aug 7 about “The Injection Fraud: a Sane Person’s Guidebook to the Global Pandemic.” Dr. Goltry served as president of AAPS in 1998. His introduction of Yuri Maltsev at the 1995 meeting in Boise is preserved at https://tinyurl.com/5rwrkbpa.


“The FDA protects the big drug companies, and is subsequently rewarded, and using the government’s police powers, they attack those who threaten the big drug companies.  People think that the FDA is protecting them.  It isn’t.  What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as day and night.”

Herbert Ley,  Jr., M.D., FDA Commissioner, 1968-1969


Informational Flooding

This pervasive new internet propaganda tool (https://tinyurl.com/xzy2c3kh) is illustrated well in the reports on calls about ivermectin to poison control centers. Suddenly we see hundreds of articles on so-called “ivermectin poisoning.” Indeed, we see more articles published than there were telephone calls in August on ivermectin to poison control centers in the entire nation. We are asked to believe that six telephone calls to poison control about ivermectin, none of which led to hospitalization, are somehow newsworthy, yet more than 100,000 calls to poison control on Tylenol each year are not. Moreover, no one dies of ivermectin in a typical year, yet Tylenol accounts for 56,000 annual emergency room visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and almost 500 deaths. Is a new expensive drug about to be launched?

To recognize informational flooding, look for the number of copycat stories (https://tinyurl.com/sket9uf4).


Massive Reporting Fraud

According to former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, now banned from social media, vaccine adverse reactions are grossly underreported. Moderna received 300,000 reports of side effects over a 3-month period following the launch of its COVID-19 shot, according to an internal report from IQVIA, a company that helps drugmakers manage clinical trials. Its “Q2 2021 update” was labeled “Confidential – For internal distribution only.” 

In 2021, the number of COVID shots administered so far (309 million) is roughly the same as all other vaccines administered in 2020 (316 million). But 36 times more deaths were reported this year from COVID shots than were reported last year from all other vaccines combined. Independent researcher Virginia Stoner suggests that death may be one of the most underreported vaccine injuries of all—the victim may not have a relative or doctor who knows about VAERS and is willing to go through the onerous process of filing a report.

A letter from Doctors for COVID Ethics states that official sources from the EU, UK, U.S., and Switzerland report a combined 34,052 COVID-19 injection-related deaths and more than 5.46 million injuries reported as of Aug 1.

“The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the ‘Covid’ vaccine programme be halted immediately.”

Despite the dearth of negative media reports and the censorship on social media,  the public has become increasingly skeptical. States have administered 52 million fewer doses than have been distributed to them (https://tinyurl.com/9hae5cv4).


AAPS Calendar

Sep 30. Board meeting; welcome reception

Oct 1-Oct 2. 78th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA


FDA Approval Bait and Switch

The announcement that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is now “fully approved” by the FDA was immediately followed by the Biden Administration’s call for mandates—but in fact this product was instead granted an extension of its EUA (https://tinyurl.com/ethr29j9). Approval was granted to the “nearly identical” but legally different BioNTech product labeled Comirnaty, which is not yet available. Comirnaty is supposed to follow  the “gene therapy” checklist of 5-year follow-up studies, specifically for myocarditis, stated Dr. Robert Malone in an interview with Steve Bannon (https://tinyurl.com/4rs2cmwm).

It is puzzling that FDA took this action despite the fact that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted for CDC to recommend Pfizer at its Aug 30 meeting. They did so without considering the CDC data on waning immunity and variants that were presented to the panel AFTER the vote was taken. They did not discuss safety signals showing 176 times the number of deaths/person vaccinated compared with flu vaccines.

See comments by David Wiseman, Ph.D. (https://tinyurl.com/2jw8kfx2, https://tinyurl.com/adjh8v7p).


COVID-Related Litigation

Oregon Police and Firefighters Sue: Challenging Gov. Kate Brown’s Executive Order No. 21-29 requiring all executive branch employees to be vaccinated, the Oregon Fraternal Order of Police and the Kingsley Firefighters Association argue that it would result in wrongful termination and conflicts with Oregon statutes (https://tinyurl.com/4uyahj6v).

AFLDS Sues to Stop the Shots: America’s Frontline Doctors v. Becerra, Civil Action No. 2:21-cv-00702-CLM in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (https://tinyurl.com/2deykmz7) presents whistleblower testimony that at least 45,000 deaths have resulted from COVID vaccines. In 1976, the swine flu vaccine was deemed dangerous and removed from the market after 53 deaths.

Los Angeles Police and Firefighters: Firefighters for Freedom and Roll Call 4 Freedom are planning to sue to stop the mandate for all City employees. The mandate affects some 60,000 persons, including 3,350 firefighters, of whom only about half have chosen to take the shot. Roll Call 4 Freedom encourages members not to submit anything, including a religious exemption, because it is “a form of self-reporting.”  Roll Call states that “we must be willing to die on this hill, otherwise there won’t be another to fight on!” (https://tinyurl.com/4xevnxfj).

AG Sues over Employee Mandate: Texas Attorney Ken Paxton has sued the San Antonio Independent School District after it refused to follow Executive Order GA-38, which prohibits governmental entities and officials from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations. Government entities cannot impose mandates for vaccines having only an EUA (https://tinyurl.com/556zwdka).

Military Members Sue DOD: On Aug 18, Robert v. Austin (Civil Action No. 21-CV-2228) was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, arguing that members of the military cannot be forced to accept COVID vaccines under current military regulations. In particular, Army Regulation 40-562 (AR 40-562) “provides documented survivors of an infection, a presumptive medical exemption from vaccination because of the natural immunity acquired as a result of having survived the infection.”  The action is a class action on behalf of active-duty and reserve service members (https://tinyurl.com/pd5enrbn).

Methodist Health System Impermissibly Denies Exemptions: Employers are not allowed to judge validity of religious beliefs, argues Liberty Counsel (https://tinyurl.com/8nxavfyv).


Employees May Be Protected When Speaking Out

Hours after a newspaper published her 2017 letter criticizing hospital executives for causing patient safety problems, Karen Jo Young was fired. Now that the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision, the first ruling on employee speech in 20 years, employers may not be able to enforce a blanket ban on speaking to the media. (NLRB v. Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities, https://tinyurl.com/28b3fxnp).

“If you go to the media and say, ‘There are unsafe working conditions impacting me and my colleagues,’ that’s protected concerted activity,” said attorney Eric Meyer (https://tinyurl.com/e67ky4dw). AAPS general counsel Andrew Schlafly said the ruling, which might in some instances also help victims of sham peer review, is tremendously significant.


AAPS Demands Withdrawal of NPDB Report

AAPS filed an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court in  Van Boven v. Freshour (Case No. 20-0117), asking the Court to demand that the Texas Medical Board void its incorrect Adverse Action Report on Dr. van Boven in the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). Although Dr. van Boven prevailed on every point in the complaints brought against him, the TMB refused to withdraw its unjustified, disparaging adverse entry, which continues to harm the doctor. “A Data Bank entry lasts forever, or until it is voided,” writes AAPS. “Sovereign immunity does not apply when state government officials misinterpret, misapply, or misrepresent their powers Properly pleaded ultra vires suits do not implicate sovereign immunity because they do not attempt to exert control over the state but, instead, attempt to reassert control of the state over one of its agents. (tinyurl.com/aw7zk7jh).


Vote with Governor—or Else?

If an elected official holds an occupational license, can he be threatened with loss of livelihood if he votes the wrong way?

Sports medicine physician Jeremy Henrichs, who is an elected  member of the Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education and is on the faculty of the University of Illinois Carle College of Medicine, is being subjected to an investigation by the medical licensure board for alleged unprofessional conduct. The issue appears to be his opinion on a school masking mandate. Illinois Sen. Chapin Rose filed a complaint with the Office of the Executive Inspector General (OEIG) asking for an investigation of the investigation.

Intimidating a public official is a potentially criminal activity, “part of a pattern of abuse of power that the Pritzker administration is undertaking to tamp out any dissent,” Rose said. “Who knows how many others will have their licenses threatened” in fields such as insurance, real estate, and banking “unless they vote with the governor?” (https://tinyurl.com/74m8wtn7).


Correspondence

 “Time to End Excuses and Issue Mandates.”  The people who are so eager to impose their will on others are now using the word “refusenik.” Liberal political commentator Eugene Robinson declares that now that FDA has “fully authorized” Pfizer’s vaccine (sic), “the last remotely plausible rationalization for refusing to get vaccinated is gone.” If patriotism won’t convince reluctant Americans, “maybe the threat of not being able to work, go to school or lead anything like a normal life will do the trick.” Robinson writes that some of the “refuseniks” are following “looney bin advice” to take ivermectin. The acknowledged fact that vaccinated people can get infected and transmit disease “is not a reason to conclude that the vaccines don’t work.” To get a paycheck, “get the shot” (https://tinyurl.com/4u2wneta).

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


No Control. To give any young person a coronavirus vaccine should be considered malpractice and a crime against humanity, because they do not spread COVID significantly, are at almost zero risk of serious disease or death from it, if sick can get early effective treatment (in the face of determined opposition from organized medicine and political forces because vaccines cannot get EUA if there is an effective treatment)—and yet mandates are exploding all over the country. Some suggest that what appears to be an irrational, inexplicable phenomenon—a desperate push to get every single human vaccinated—may be an effort to eliminate any large “control” group of never vaccinated so their health can not be compared with the vaccinated. The original control groups in the mRNA vaccine trials have begun to be vaccinated, as the companies making them (and untold billions of dollars) argue that it is “unethical” to leave some unvaccinated and vulnerable.

Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC


Worse than the Disease? Increasingly, vaccine manufacturers and government officials are following the sarcastic maxim from Samuel Shem’s novel of medical residency, The House of God: “If you don’t take a temperature you can’t find a fever.” In other words, if we don’t critically look at the actual recorded patient damage, we won’t find our products to be defective (tinyurl.com/m38p7ats). Before taking these genetic agents, do  your research: see wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html. Look for truth by looking at censorship. Resist all government and business attempts to mandate. Do not be coaxed by false promises of more freedom if you take the injections. If you don’t own the rights to your own body, you are a slave.

Lee Merritt, M.D., Logan, IA


Gone “Woke.” At the end of a survey by the alumni of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, I commented that the College began to side with big government when it instituted a gowning ceremony in which they told fledgling students that they needed to concern themselves with societal needs, not just with the patient. That is a clear conflict of interest. The practice of medicine is One on One—for the patient. Since then the College’s philosophy has become still more in tune with government dictates—a sad commentary on a once solidly ethical medical school.

Joseph M. Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


Good Germans. Dennis Prager writes that he is not so quick to condemn Germans now that he sees how Americans are accepting police-state restrictions (tinyurl.com/ym233mp4). It’s not just Germans. A “good Cuban” might have denounced a close relative or friend to Castro’s Comités del Barrio, to alert the government of unapproved activities. What is the lesson?  Evil, if left unchecked, will grow and grow until it consumes the souls of the individual and the society. The key to facing it is to snuff it out the moment it rears its ugly head (tinyurl.com/n8zh2zrx).

Julio Gonzalez, M.D., J.D., Venice, FL


Jack-booted Thugs. After 30 years, it is time to revive this term coined by Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) to refer to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. ATF and DOJ/FBI performance at Waco and Ruby Ridge proved Dingell right, didn’t it? Now we have a deep state and American corporate army of zealots that fits the description of Eric Hoffer: “The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.”

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


Cuban Protests. As Cubans protest to gain freedom from Communist tyranny, the Biden Administration’s spokesperson is twisting herself into a verbal pretzel to present their message as something else, “freedom from rising COVID cases.” American Marxists are busy promoting Marxism in America, using invented constructs, i.e. non-existent white supremacy and critical race theory, to convince the American public that freedom from capitalism and installation of Democrat socialism is what they want.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/4w4sa9n6


Censored. Facebook took down our Health Freedom Minute titled “The Vaccinated Are Not Immune from COVID-19.” As punishment for violating their “community standards,” we can’t invite more people to our page for an unspecified length of time. FB is also hiding our COVID-19 update videos from the public.

Twila Brase, R.N., cchfreedom.org


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AAPS News August 2021 – Apartheid 2.0

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Volume 77, no. 8  August 2021

The basis of the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory, which  have invaded American education and the American Medical Association, hold that America is founded on the unforgiveable sin of racism, and that our unprecedented phenomenal progress and prosperity was built on the backs of African slaves. American-style apartheid—Jim Crow laws—then left a legacy that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and decades of Affirmative Action did not repair.

America’s success in world history is unique. But what was a  “peculiar institution” early in our history was unexceptionable in most of the world for most of human history. The Roman economy was built on slavery. From 10 to 25 percent of the population was enslaved (Commentary, June 2021, tinyurl.com/36vvnxxc).

The Mayans, Incans, and Aztecs enslaved subjugated populations. African rulers traded slaves with Muslims, other Africans, and later Europeans. Only 9.7% of the Atlantic slave trade involved England’s North American colonies; 90.3% of African slaves were shipped to South America and the Caribbean. While 12 million West Africans were shipped by Europeans to the Americas, more than 17 million East Africans were shipped by Arabs into the Middle East (https://tinyurl.com/3y5c38c4).

This is irrelevant to CRT because slavery is not the issue—if it were, we would hear about the slavery that still exists. CRT insists that all problems within the black community were caused by whites, that whites are responsible for solving them, and that virtually all white people contribute to or benefit from racism (“white privilege”). Cultural characteristics that have led to prosperity in all races and ethnic groups—strong families, work ethic, individual responsibility, respect for learning—are called “whiteness.”

“Inclusiveness” may exclude or demean whites. Segregation is fine on some campuses—as long it is whites who are kept out.

The 1619 premise is that every concept, document, and institution that shapes and guides America was designed to promote slavery and therefore must be eradicated to atone for centuries of racial oppression, writes Scot Faulkner (ibid.).

What Happens after Apartheid?

In South Africa, apartheid officially ended in the early 1990s. An era of peace and equality did not follow.

The number of  whites killed by blacks after Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994—about 80,000—exceeds the number of blacks killed by whites during 48 years of apartheid—around 20,000, mostly during revolutions and war. The number of white farmers has decreased from around 60,000 to 30,000, mostly because those who could flee, did so. Under ANC rule, about 400,000 blacks have  been murdered, mostly by other blacks (tinyurl.com/8cwjwcpa).

When apartheid ended, unemployment was 5%. It is now closer to 45%. With the continuing outmigration of skilled whites and Indians, there will not be enough skilled manpower to run a modern economy (https://tinyurl.com/ysa7c9d5).

The country is “grappling with change,” writes Rachel Jones (National Geographic 4/26/19).

Riots erupted recently after former president Jacob Zuma, a Zulu, was jailed for contempt of court. South-Africa-born columnist Ilana Mercer, who warned of the evil consequences of the Afro-American progressive multicultural society foisted on her native land by the West, writes on July 17 that she sees a ray of hope. Unlike in America, South African authorities are now arresting rioters, not “right-wingers,” and 25,000 soldiers were deployed to quell unrest. “Ruling elites came out with powerful declarations of shared moral values. There was no…allusion to systemic racism. The system of apartheid was not conjured from the past as causality for criminality” (https://tinyurl.com/9hsrbd92).

Others are less optimistic. Revolver News writes that “the specter of doom hangs over South Africa”—which it calls the first country built on CRT. Acting on the assumption that if outcomes differ between two racial groups, the cause must be racism, and the remedy direct intervention to correct “injustice,” the result is Zimbabwe (https://tinyurl.com/7ssa38ef).

CRT will not achieve a thriving society with the former “oppressed” trading places with the alleged “oppressors,” or a classless society that achieves equality. In South Africa, there appear to be two worlds: The commoners—the black, white, and Hindu middle and lower classes live in cities like Verulam and Durban, where barbaric riots erupt, and the residents have to fend for themselves against enraged black mobs. The top elite live in fortified places like West Cape Town, from which they warn against blaming looters or using words such as “right” and “wrong” (https://tinyurl.com/4ardmcwt).

The New Apartheid

Racial disharmony is increasing, and a new form of divisiveness has arisen. One can’t be excluded for being black. One can, however, be barred from normal living for not accepting a still-experimental jab—but not for a lifelong HIV-positive status, or for being a hepatitis b carrier, or for being an unscreened migrant from a country teeming with exotic contagious diseases.

What is really going on, as the economy, the currency, the natural hierarchy, meritocracy, and the middle class are being destroyed? Will the ultimate apartheid be a dependent, compliant, culled underclass, with factions warring against each other, while the 0.0001% re-engineer the One World to serve their desires?


Critical Theory

CRT derives from Critical Theory (CT), the Western-Marxist philosophy developed in Germany in the 1930s and brought to the U.S. in the 1970s in the Frankfurt School. It holds that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation. CRT  exchanges the two traditional Marxist classes, capital and labor,  for oppressive structural racism and oppressed minorities, primarily blacks. This is the classical Marxist strategy of fomenting class, or racial, warfare, which creates “insuperable barriers to mutual understanding.” Its goals include abolition of property in land and all rights of inheritance; centralization of credit and the means of communication and transport; and an educational dictatorship. CRT = Marxist racism (tinyurl.com/369vjxye).


NYC to Exclude Blacks by Vaccine Passport

On Sep 13, when New York City implements its vaccine passport, 72% of young blacks may be denied both service and the right to work in gyms, restaurants, and theaters. Only 28% of black New Yorkers aged 18 to 44 years are vaccinated, compared with 48% of Latino residents and 52% of white residents in that age group (https://tinyurl.com/ssmdmwaj).

Jazmine Shavuo-Goodwin, a 31-year-old black clinic manager explained her hesitancy, reaffirmed by the pause on the Johnson & Johnson shot. “It just shows black lives don’t matter. You can test that on us just like you tested syphilis on us.” One restaurant manager said he expects businesses to ignore the rule en masse (https://tinyurl.com/47yd35ks).


Cancelled by CRT

“Culturally Responsive” learning and teaching in Rhode Island middle schools has removed writings of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Diary of Anne Frank or any teaching about the Holocaust, The Crucible, poetry by Maya Angelou or Robert Frost, and any book or short story from the literary canon (https://tinyurl.com/4vvkb663).


Remember the Alamo?

Defenders of the Alamo, like warriors at Thermopylae and the Boers who defended the line at Magersfontein, stood their ground since they believed that they defended something worth defending, to the point of dying for it. The Spartans under king Leonidas held the pass for only three days—but the Persian invasion was repulsed within a year at Salamis and Plataea. The Boers delivered a major defeat to the British at Magersfontein, and though Britain won the Boer War, it marked the beginning of questions about the power of the British Empire.

The Alamo has long been viewed as paving the way to the independence of Texas. Now, revisionist historians in Forget the Alamo portray it as a myth, and the Texans’ battle as being about colonialism, white supremacy, slavery, racism, and oppression of noble Latinos (tinyurl.com/4fb8uk37)—not worth defending.


“Even if all hell breaks loose/And even if heaven falls down on us/

Stand your ground and hold your line! /It is here where we can stop them.”

Afrikanerhart, Bok van Blerk,  tinyurl.com/432hakm7


Vaccination Questions

Blood Donation: The spike protein coded for by COVID-19 jabs is supposed to attach to receptors at the injection site, travel to local lymph nodes, or be disposed of in the liver. It is, however, found to be circulating in the blood (tinyurl.com/4bcjh4p3). Spike protein by itself is damaging, warns Dr. Byram Bridle and suggests that donated blood might be dangerous (https://tinyurl.com/3fcz9w46). Manufacturers state that their vaccine’s protein differs from the virus’s and is actually protective (tinyurl.com/6rmkcew). The Red Cross is not restricting donations from those who know what brand they received,  but it will not accept convalescent plasma (tinyurl.com/4k2kfp6d).

Distribution of Lipid Nanoparticles: Pfizer data obtained by Japanese regulators shows that vaccine components peak in the blood in about 2 hours, are mostly gone in 48 hours, but accumulate in bone marrow and ovaries ( (https://tinyurl.com/3tnztach, at around 36 minutes).

How Long Does Spike Protein Circulate? In 6 of 6 randomly  selected patients, all still had circulating spike protein after 5 months; one had it in 15% of his monocytes. It could last for years; we don’t know (https://tinyurl.com/4pbydpw). Dr. Anthony Kyriakopoulos told Dr. Peter McCullough that he believes 50-60% of vaccinated people will develop cancers, autoimmune disorders, or viral illnesses because of persistent mRNA or incorporation into the genome (tinyurl.com/28b392w2).


CRT: Not in China

China believes that unity, defined by harmonized language, race, and coerced allegiance—not diversity—is strength. Its authoritarian communist government suppresses any hint of unrest, unlike the American airing of the rioting, looting, arson, and protests. Most consider China a xenophobic and racist nation. Its colonizing and overseas emissaries are about as welcome as the Soviet operatives of the 1950s. Africa is tiring of both insidious and overt Chinese racism, both in its major cities at home and among its corporate legionaries abroad, writes Victor Davis Hanson. China has many weaknesses, and “as long as the U.S. Constitution is not tampered with, America enjoys the stability and resilience of the world’s oldest constitutional and consensual system [emphasis added]”  (https://tinyurl.com/d69mnd34).

The Master Race is Han Chinese, in Beijing’s view, and Africans are portrayed as subhuman (tinyurl.com/ep8var25).

Hanson’s optimistic view ignores America’s dependence on China for drugs, and the pandemic’s devastation. What are the prospects for the required “return of financial solvency, a renewed national unity and appreciation of American singularity?”


AAPS Calendar

Sep 30. Board meeting; welcome reception

Oct 1-Oct 2. 78th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA


ACTION OF THE MONTH

If you offer early treatment for COVID-19 by protocol similar to those at c19protocols.com, please add your name to a list we are compiling to help patients at bit.ly/covidearlytx.


Animal Farm’ in Canada

Dr. Brian Day of Cambie Surgeries Corp. in British Columbia has been in court since 2009 on the constitutionality of provisions in the Medicare Protection Act restricting private care.

The date shows “how much politicking has occurred,” writes Ian Mulgrew (Vancouver Sun 6/23/21, tinyurl.com/767tkxs6). “The B.C. Court of Appeal has an unenviable job of parsing the 880-page decision” handed down by Judge John Steeves last September (AAPS News, November 2020).

The province besmirched the reputation of Dr. Day and colleagues as greedy, money-grubbing doctors out to destroy medicare—despite the $200 million in support to public health and education that Cambie Surgeries has provided.

Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, who won his similar case in the Supreme Court of Canada, was so despondent about the minimalist response from the Quebec government that he left the country and now practices in France. He believes, Mulgrew writes, that Canada is controlled by lobby groups and the ideology that it is socially unacceptable for those with more money to have better access to care. Patient care in France is far better than in Canada, Dr. Chaoulli told him, because the French system is not monopolistic and has both public and private care.

The province’s response to Dr. Day’s appeal is “Animal Farm, not a legal response to the complaints that Steeves made factual errors, applied the wrong legal test, and confused the relevant jurisprudence.”


COVID-Related Litigation

Indiana University Students: A federal district judge denied the motion in Klaassen v. Trustees of Indiana University to put IU’s vaccination mandate on hold while litigation proceeds (https://tinyurl.com/sracsnke), as did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to consider the emergency appeal to the Supreme Court (tinyurl.com/47hu2dhy). 

Alberta Drops COVID Restrictions: After being fined $1,200 dollars for protesting against the COVID  restrictions, Patrick King represented himself in court and issued a subpoena to the Provincial Health Minister for proof that the COVID-19 virus exists. Since the government did not respond, the court ruled that government had no legal grounds to impose any such restrictions. On July 28, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw rescinded them and officially treats COVID-19 in the same way as other respiratory viruses (tinyurl.com/3s7dmdz9). Lockdown advocates quickly attacked this decision. Other provinces are developing vaccine passports (tinyurl.com/sr5jahau).

Law Professor Sues George Mason University: Todd Zywicki is suing GMU over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing that because he has recovered from the virus and has antibodies, the vaccine is unnecessary and that he is at higher risk of serious adverse effects (https://tinyurl.com/j8zvwyr2).

Dr. Stella Immanuel Sues CNN:  After she spoke in favor of early treatment of COVID-19 at a press conference called by America’s Frontline Doctors, Anderson Cooper and CNN, according to the complaint, “published a series of statements of fact about Dr. Immanuel that injured her reputation and exposed her to public hatred.” Among other things, they falsely attributed to her statements, e.g., about “alien DNA,” that she never made.   The lawsuit argues that CNN’s “false and defamatory” statements   exposed her to contempt, ridicule, and financial injury, and asks for $100 million in damages. Additionally, it declares that “by targeting and attacking Dr. Immanuel, CNN effectively caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands whose lives would have been spared if they had been treated early with HCQ [hydroxychloroquine]” (tinyurl.com/u58fbsyw).

Minor Consent: Children’s Health Defense and Parental Rights Foundation have filed a lawsuit on behalf of four parents challenging the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccination Act. The Act allows children 11 years of age and older to consent to vaccinations without the parents’ knowledge or consent and against the parents’ express written religious exemption. The Act contains multiple provisions to deceive parents (tinyurl.com/ybu388rt).


Freedom of Speech under Attack

Dr. Peter McCullough Sued by Former Employer: In the context of his recommending early out-patient sequential multidrug therapy for COVID-19 (tinyurl.com/4thc6xut), Dr. McCullough was sued for more than $1 million by his former employer for alleged unauthorized mention of his previous affiliation. At this time, nearly 8,000 have signed an AAPS letter supporting him (https://bit.ly/standwithpmc).

Criticism of Scientists Compared to a Hate Crime: Baylor professor Peter Hotez is calling on Congress to criminalize attacks on scientists—such as Anthony Fauci, not Peter McCullough: “We must take steps to protect our scientists and take swift and positive action to counter the growing wave of far-right antiscience aggression” (tinyurl.com/akbcsh8w). Not a word about Big Tech censorship of clinical trials or even repeating CDC statements on vaccines. In a Jul 28 article in PLOS Biology, Hotez writes: “Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) has introduced a bill known as the Scientific Integrity Act of 2021 (H.R. 849) to protect US Government scientists from political interference, but this needs to be extended for scientists at private research universities and institutes. Still another possibility is to extend federal hate-crime protections” (https://tinyurl.com/xvm8nkb7).


No Consent Required, Says DOJ

In a memorandum opinion, Dawn Johnson, Acting Assistant Attorney General, writes: “We conclude that section 564 of the FDCA [Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act] does not prohibit public or private entities from imposing vaccination requirements, even when the only vaccines available are those authorized under [Emergency Use Authorizations] EUAs” (tinyurl.com/v6dkcnx9).

“They tie themselves in knots to explain why the clear language of the EUA statute doesn’t mean what it says,” comments AAPS business manager Jeremy Snavely.

The Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) points out that federal agencies have historically interpreted Section 564 as a prohibition on mandates of EUA products. Long-settled legal precedent establishes that it is not legal to coerce an individual to accept an experimental product. “It would be illogical that Congress would require that individuals be informed of a freedom of choice if that choice is illusory at the whim of any public or private entity.” ICAN urges the DOJ to revise its Slip Opinion (https://tinyurl.com/3mnup35w).


Correspondence

Socialism in New York. Even before socialist India Walton won the mayoral primary in Buffalo, the socialism experiment had begun in Albany, according to the Buffalo News. The six democratic socialists, who are prodding the legislature further to the left, “helped press major tax hikes” for “big funding increases ‘to be distributed to the working class’ in the form of higher education and health care spending.” The democratic socialists “are aligned with working people and movements and don’t want to sell out our resources to the richest people.” Also, they are proud to be part of the “Borg”: they acknowledge that “we have to work together” and “we are not individuals.” People who actually work for a living should be afraid. 

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


The New Memory Hole Age. As Roger Kimball points out, “We used to think that the Taliban’s habit of destroying important cultural artifacts was a mark of barbarism. Now, we’ve learned that it is an avant-garde gesture, and is, therefore, commendable” (tinyurl.com/hs4tazku). The Taliban, according to Sahil Mahtani, figured out that “public statues are not politically neutral. They are statements about who and what we honor as a society…. We’ve learned that our commitment to liberalism and free speech was outmoded…. [and] that the Afghan dogmatism that we wrote off as medieval was, in fact, the future” (https://tinyurl.com/5xcrps8r). The meme “it’s only property” did change, however, when a statue of George Floyd was defaced.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


Americans Think They Want Socialism. In 1982, there were only 6,000 members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). In 2017, a Gallup poll showed that 44% of millennials said they wanted to live in a socialist nation. In 2018, 33% of Americans answering a Gallup poll said that socialism is a “society with equal standing for everybody, in which benefits and services were free for all.” In truth, we certainly did not have equal standing in Romania; we were serfs to the omnipotent government. There were no benefits at all, simply hard work and a meal after standing in line for hours each day. There is a vast difference between asking for more welfare in the Nordic model of social welfare paid for by the private capitalist sector, and a socialist republic where the means of production are owned by a totalitarian government. Americans on the left are far too ignorant to understand history and economics; they are too busy demolishing monuments and installing statues of criminals as role models instead.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/54n6fjrw


CME from UCSF. For $600, physicians can enroll in an interactive webinar (11.25 hours, AMA PRA Category 1 credit) to learn about white privilege, white supremacy, anti-blackness, and anti-non-whiteness (https://tinyurl.com/f2d4x8nb). The course is conducted by Dante King, whose only qualification, judging by his website, is that he is black. He also conducts continuing education courses for the California bar. Other potential markets might include airline pilots, replacing courses on the latest aviation technology, or Miami building inspectors, replacing seminars on judging whether a condo is going to collapse. But when society collapses from people being pitted against each other, we’ll have a video record of what caused the breakdown.

Craig Cantoni, Sherwin-Williams color code 7512, pavilion beige


 A French-style Revolution in America? Perhaps not yet on the windowsill of the Overton Window, the French Revolution was many things unfolding at once: inflation soaring to the point commoners could no longer afford bread; replacing the state-religion nexus with Enlightenment rationalism;  fragmentation of the social and political orders into warring factions; failure of the Monarchy’s institutions to understand the potentially fatal challenges and institute reforms that addressed the problems; and failure of the French economy. The parallels to 2020 America are obvious.

Charles Hugh Smith, https://tinyurl.com/4ckbxf2s


Lysenkoist ‘Fake Science’ Police in Canada. In a hearing before the Canadian parliament (https://tinyurl.com/4w5wx9f3), vaccinologist Byram Bridle recounts that after a 5-minute press interview in which he said there might be a connection between COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis, it was as if a nuclear bomb went off in his life. He faced daily attacks from phone calls and social media, and workplace harassment. Hundreds of Canadian physicians fear losing their job or license if they speak out.

Jim Vanne, Aurora, IL


HCQ ‘Stress Test.’ In the RECOVERY trial [often cited as showing “no benefit” from hydroxychloroquine in COVID-10], in those patients whose doctors thought HCQ was safe and enrolled them, with detailed monitoring and scrutiny, HCQ at very high doses was safe even in this very ill population—the trial’s  most important conclusion. There should be no more regulatory warnings or concerns regarding HCQ safety in those selected for COVID-19 therapy by doctors, although when patients are that close to death HCQ and probably other drugs directed against viral replication are far too late. Cytokine storm, thrombosis, and complications are probably the determinants of death.

Peter A. McCullough, M.D., Dallas, TX

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AAPS News July 2021 – Surfside & Weimar: Metaphor & Prologue

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Volume 77, no. 7  July 2021

More than 100 residents were sleeping comfortably in their $600,000 apartments in the 12-story Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, when the building suddenly collapsed, burying the residents in the rubble. There had been indications of problems for a time—such as exposed rebar in concrete columns, or a balcony that looked slanted (https://tinyurl.com/xxcjptd6). The town is built on a barrier island, which is made of a loose mixture of sand and mud.  Geologists have long warned that these islands cannot be developed responsibly (tinyurl.com/5yfvxjf2). The building was sinking at a rate of about 2 millimeters a year in the 1990s (https://tinyurl.com/32h74hvx). We don’t know exactly why the collapse occurred when it did—or the risk to the other $3 trillion worth of similar developments.

Is this a metaphor for the U.S., whose moral foundations, industry, and currency have been eroding and sinking for decades?

As the Fed is creating trillions of dollars out of nothing, and people are beginning to notice rising prices and a declining standard of living, the specter of Weimar hyperinflation looms. But there was much more to Weimar—and we must not forget that it was Weimar that led to the rise of Hitler.

Past Is Prologue

The American musical Cabaret portrays a highly sanitized version of Weimar craziness and debauchery. The German public became fed up with filth under the pretext of “sexual freedom” and voted for a party that promised a return to moral sanity.

 In the opinion of a German immigrant who has extensively read the history of the era, most Americans never learned the truth about Weimar because the American historians who wrote about it were the refugees of the Weimar Regime or their descendants. Arguably, Cultural Marxism, which has become the ruling ideology in academia and other institutions, is Weimar’s toxic gift. 

Weimar was not an enlightened pure democracy that was destroyed by fascists. Paul Bookbinder is one of the few American historians to acknowledge the bad choices made by Weimar politicians and elites (https://tinyurl.com/234ufrh8).

Although he was publishing in liberal post-war Germany, Karl Dietrich Bracher (Die Auflösung der Weimarer Republik: eine Studie zum Problem des Machtverfalls in der Demokratie) was able to point out the inconvenient  truth that the German people were simply appalled by Weimar politicians who pushed fringe liberal ideas (like degenerate arts and the normalization of perversions) while promoting big liberal government as “solutions” to the many economic and cultural crises. For instance, archetypal Weimar leader Heinrich Bruning responded to increasing poverty by increasing taxes, freeing violent offenders from prisons, and calling for legal protection of pedophilia and transvestitism.  These things had no mass support but pleased the German liberal elites. One can argue that by enacting so many fringe policies Bruning was an unwilling helper of Hitler’s rise to power.

Historian Fritz Fischer gained popularity in early West Germany with a theory that provided an excuse for Nazism as an “inevitable event caused by fate” (Sonderweg). Even he presented the Weimar Republic as an asylum run by the inmates.

Hans-Ulrich Wehler, one of the founders of the Bielefeld School of Historical Analysis, aggressively promoted the Sonderweg theory, but uniquely noted that Weimar was a Potemkin Village or façade from behind which the Elites were ruling the “peasantry” mercilessly, while pretending to embrace “modern ideas.”

Hans Mommsen and Fritz Stern, although Cultural Marxists, are good sources of facts about the Weimar establishment. Both confirm the existence of the movement within the Weimar penitentiary system to literally coddle sexual predators, since they were considered to be “true victims of society.”

Does any of this sound familiar?

If the American Republic collapses, will there be a Sonderweg theory to excuse those passive, well-off, open-minded persons who could have done something, but didn’t?

Phony War of the Elites

American “peasants” may be in the streets or at rallies, but are they truly represented by either political party?

It appears that Democrats want to change decorations (get new flag and new anthem, destroy old monuments and possibly replace them with St. George Floyd, etc.); change ideology (replace the American Way with Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ cult); change religion (from Christianity—when Islam didn’t work out, replace it with Wokeism); expand entitlements but not work opportunities; and defund police. Republicans would keep the decorations and possibly add trendy new ones; replace ideology with hypocrisy (outwardly keep American Way but block industry and upward mobility); maintain pseudoreligion (keep some outward forms but abandon the faith and tolerate the intolerable, such as seduction of children); cut entitlements without allowing work opportunities to desperate people; and militarize the police.

The left-wing upper middle class, mostly the professional managerial class, and the right-wing upper middle class both expect to preserve the economic status quo for themselves. Those not in the commanding heights are deeply divided: those who revere the old Republic vs. those who oppose or are uninterested in its restoration.  Angelo Codevilla asks, “Is it possible to rescue and re-found our Republic?” (https://tinyurl.com/yy9ye2mp).


Re-founding a Nation

If a large enough proportion of a people is alienated, the body politic loses the capacity to act as a whole. Resetting the country on its original principles—or outright resuscitation—amounts to re-founding a nation, and as Machiavelli wrote that is much more difficult than founding one in the first place. Codevilla (ibid.) notes the enormity of the problem:

“The changes that have taken place in the bipartisan ruling class that controls nearly all our institutions have explicitly denied and denigrated what had made America itself. Today’s ruling class leads and even forces Americans to act, speak, and think as if all that they had thought good were bad, and vice versa. Almost as if a vengeful power had conquered the country.”

There are historical examples of nations rescued and re-founded, most of which involve overthrowing the dominion of foreigners rather than of mutated ruling classes. [Americans might recognize an external threat even if the current Administration has deep ties to it. China, for example, is apparently building 100 new ICBM silos (https://tinyurl.com/2k6w7xm5).]

But “rescuing disrespected constitutions has always required …undoing any number of enemies.” And “lost civic virtue is almost as unrecoverable as lost virginity.”

Silent secession by alienated individuals, the tacit hemorrhage of legitimacy, dooms regimes—but does not by itself re-found.

“Federalism as never before” is key to successful restoration.


The Fed’s ‘Doom Loop’

America is in the throes of virulent underlying inflation, writes David Stockman (tinyurl.com/5adpma3w). In financial markets, it has already fostered huge asset bubbles and a massive shift of wealth to the tippy-top of the economic ladder. Now, soaring prices for everyday goods and services threaten main street jobs, incomes, and hard-earned savings. With unbridled furious money printing, the Fed’s balance sheet has ballooned from the historic 3-5% of GDP and post-dotcom crash of 6.5% to 37%. There is roaring inflation in stocks, bonds, housing prices,  baseball cards, and other collectibles. Through financial fraud, the Fed is the most profitable private company in the world. Over three decades, the financial assets of the top 1% increased 9.5 times, while that of the bottom 50% only 4.3 times, with most of the paper gains trapped in their homes.

Fed chairman Jerome Powell insists that the Fed’s money-pumping madness has nothing to do with America’s rapidly metastasizing wealth disparities, but that is blatant sophistry, Stockman says. The coming inflation will hurt the poor far more.

“The Fed’s perverse redistribution of wealth to the top will also elicit a populist revulsion against the rich, which, in turn, threatens punitive taxation of the very producers and risk-takers who make capitalist prosperity possible. Indeed, Washington is threatening the golden goose like rarely before.”


“For several decades political arrests were distinguished in our country precisely by the fact that people were guilty of nothing and were therefore unprepared to put up any resistance whatsoever…. A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelagotinyurl.com/55mujy8n


Nominating Committee Report

The Nominating Committee submits the following slate:

President-elect: Sheila Page, D.O., Aledo, TX

Secretary: Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL

Directors: Richard Dolinar, M.D., Phoenix, AZ; Chandrasekhar Doniparthi, M.D., Yuma, AZ;  Martin Dubravec, M.D., Cadillac, MI; Kristin Held, M.D., San Antonio, TX; and Erika LeBaron, D.O., Manassas, VA.


Resolutions

To be considered at the annual meeting, resolutions must be received in writing by July 31. Send to aaps@aapsonline.org. Prior resolutions are found at: https://tinyurl.com/25a99fw2.


‘Even North Korea Was Not This Nuts’

Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea at age 13, says that she  found the anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt, and suffocating political correctness at Columbia University deeply disturbing. She points to the lack of critical thinking and the erosion of the rule of law and morality. She thinks that America’s progressive influencers want “to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a communist paradise.” If we continue on the current path, our future is “as bleak as North Korea” (tinyurl.com/2hcweu6b).


AMA’s Population Health Priorities

Gender Affirmation: Physicians need to create a welcoming environment for LGBTQ patients. One suggestion is to incorporate asking about pronouns as part of your greeting (https://tinyurl.com/ydss84fu).

Remove Sex from Public Part of Birth Certificates: Board Report 15 recommends removing sex as a legal designation lest it lead to “discrimination or unnecessary burden on individuals whose current gender identity does not align with their designation at birth” (tinyurl.com/f4njrbwb).

Prioritizing “Health Equity.” AMA launched its Center for Health Equity in April. It will embed equity throughout its processes  and actions. It celebrates “diversity” in its leadership, including its first openly gay chair of the AMA Board of Trustees. Initiatives will “shine a light on structural racism” and highlight national efforts “using equity lens to curb the COVID-19 epidemic” (tinyurl.com/4sx7e5ad). AMA urges “appropriate placement of transgender prisoners” (tinyurl.com/2d5zcezx).


AAPS Calendar

Sep 30. Board meeting; welcome reception

Oct 1-Oct 2. 78th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA – https://aapsonline.org/2021am


‘Surprise’ Billing Rules Published

Interim final rules for the bipartisan No Surprises Act have requirements for opting out of the balance billing ban, which is only allowed in certain non-emergency situations, beginning at  the bottom of page 124 of 411 (tinyurl.com/m3j7kdkd). The rules go into effect in 2022.

HHS claims that it is “important that these consumer protections do not present a barrier to obtaining out-of-network care, when an individual knowingly seeks out such care.” However, the requirements are quite detailed and must be presented at least three hours before a service is rendered. Consumers must be made aware that “payment made by the individual might not accrue toward meeting any limitation that the plan or coverage places on cost sharing, including an explanation that the payment might not apply to an in-network deductible or out-of-pocket
maximum under the plan or coverage.”

Providers and facilities will need to translate the standard notice-and-consent documents into the 15 languages most common in the area. If the patient prefers oral communication, a qualified interpreter must be provided.

As an article in the Buffalo News points out, the required form tells patients, “If you sign this form, you may pay more because you are giving up your protections under federal law.”

Dr. Lawrence Huntoon writes: “Regardless of the exact process that will be used to determine a ‘fair’ price for services, fees will undoubtedly be pegged to the Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system via some percentage, as HMOs do now. RBRVS, of course, is based on Marxist labor theory.

“Insurers already discriminate against out-of-network physicians by covering substantially less of the bill. Now that insurers will essentially have complete control over all fees, this discrimination will likely be enhanced.

“I strongly suspect that HHS will judge all patients who presents to an ED as ‘emergencies’ so that the waiver will not apply.  But its use will cause undue delay in treatment or put the physician at high risk of termination of privileges if he abides by the required delay of three hours before treating the patient.

“This new law was absolutely designed to eliminate independent practice by out-of-network physicians.”


‘By Any Means Necessary’

The Florida law, SB 2006, which prevents companies and organizations operating there from requiring “vaccine passports” also contains this provision: “If the individual poses a danger to the public health, the State Health Officer may subject the individual to isolation or quarantine. If there is no practical method to isolate or quarantine the individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to vaccinate or treat the individual.”

“Any order of the State Health Official given to effectuate this paragraph is immediately enforceable by a law enforcement officer under s. 381.0012” (https://tinyurl.com/ypkvtv77).


Canadian Physicians Persecuted

Physicians insisting on informed consent for giving COVID jabs to children and adolescents are having their ability to work terminated by organized medicine—despite the World Health Organization’s statement that children under 18 should not get the shot. Five physicians are interviewed by Dr. Sam Dubé (https://tinyurl.com/upnr5cf8). Of special interest at the end of the video is a secret audio recording of the inquisition of Dr. Francis Christian, who is being urged to take advantage of “physician health” resources to cope with the distress he must be feeling as his professional life is being destroyed. Remember the history of Soviet psychiatric “hospitals.” 


Tip of the Month: Granting multiple medical exemptions from the COVID vaccine can result in unfair harassment by medical boards, and the medical exemptions may not be accepted by employers and universities. One state medical board is already harassing a good physician about this, and demanding medical records about the patients. This retaliation occurs despite reports that the second dose of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s products has caused heart inflammation in college-aged students. The religious exemption is more difficult for an employer or college to reject.


Largest Healthcare Union Fights Mandatory Jab

The president of 1199SEIU,  which represents hundreds of thousands, announced that the organization would fight mandates for COVID-19 injections, whether by a legal or a purely organizational challenge. New York-Presbyterian Hospital is mandating employee jabs. The New York State Nurses Association also issued a statement opposing mandates (tinyurl.com/3vfrhdzp).


French, UK Groups Call for Stopping Jabs

A regional independent drug assessment center, the CTIAP (Centre territorial d’Information indépendante et d’Avis pharmaceutiques), has stated that COVID jabs were submitted to insufficient clinical testing, and that the quality of the active substances, their excipients, and the manufacturing processes are problematic.

“Prudence would even dictate that, in all countries where these vaccines against COVID-19 have been marketed, all the batches thus ‘released’ should be withdrawn immediately; and that these [marketing authorizations] that have been granted should be suspended, or even canceled, …until further notice.”

All are “subject to further studies that reach as far as 2024 and even beyond, and these will be almost impossible to be completed because of the way the vaccines are now being distributed,”  said the CTIAP report. Releasing these products is like launching a car manufacturing line without testing quality of the parts, such as the brakes (https://tinyurl.com/32s2tyys).

The Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy based in the UK, in a report to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), states the MHRA now has more than enough evidence from the Yellow Card system “to declare the COVID-19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans” (tinyurl.com/wdn25nt2).


Are Colleges, Employers Liable?

The William J. Olson law firm requests colleges to commit to assume financial liability for death, disability, or illness of students being required to take the COVID jab. While manufacturers are immune from product liability, those who coerce students or employees to receive it may not be (tinyurl.com/2jmjpefm).


Correspondence

 Vaccine Pass. Originally supposed to be “optional and voluntary,” to cost $2.4 million, and to become obsolete, New York’s  Excelsior Pass has already been used to restrict access to sporting events. The highly secretive “Phase 2”  has shocked even the left-biased Buffalo News. Apparently, it will include “health records, proof of age and driver’s licenses” and create a “new, inescapable web of geolocation tracking, building out a map of our most intimate moments.” The state’s 3-year contract with IBM requires IBM to develop a road map to expand the pass to all 20 million New Yorkers. The total cost could end up being $17 million.

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Crit Theory and the Hate America Left. Reflecting on the Frankfurt School, postmodernism, and crit theory, Michael Walsh writes: “Wielding their pseudo-intellectual doctrine of Critical Theory,” men who at first seemed like “a bunch of nutty professors with Dr. Strangelove accents” undertook to “undermine every legal and social American institution, from the family, to traditional sexuality, to academe, pop culture, government, and even the military.” Everything is seen as a “construct,” a plot by the “privileged” against the “oppressed” (https://tinyurl.com/ddwtep9r). Whenever you hear words like “systemic,” “struggle,” “structural,” “change,” “fundamental transformation,” etc., you know you’re dealing with Marxists.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX


A Foreign Enemy? According to a 2015 dossier produced by the People’s Liberation Army, uncovered by the U.S. State Dept.,  China was preparing for a Third World War with biological weapons, including coronavirus, 6 years ago. Notably, China was the only G20 member whose GDP showed growth in 2020, expanding by 2.3% (https://tinyurl.com/55jwm7d5).

 Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA


Domestic Enemies. Branded and sold as Democratic Socialism, American Marxism is the fight between corporate technocrats and Americans who love their country. The former are aided by corrupt congressmen and bureaucrats and the woke military, police, teachers, professors, administrators, and media. At the bottom rung are activists and useful idiots. Half of America bought the lie and empty promises of “free stuff,” while the rest get lawlessness, protests, burning, and looting. History shows that law and order disappear prior to the complete societal takeover by tyrants, who  present it as a necessity to quell the lawlessness.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/aretufwx


Government Buys ‘Fresh’ Flesh. The Food and Drug Administration has been caught buying tissue from aborted babies who could have survived as preemies. Recent emails uncovered by Judicial Watch between FDA employees and Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) prove the agency spent tens of thousands of dollars between 2012 and 2018 buying aborted babies up to 24 weeks gestation. Body parts were used to “humanize” mice and test biologic drugs (https://tinyurl.com/2yzkz858).

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


Dr. Fauci’s Agency Spends $61 Million on Baby Parts. Experiments funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) include implanting fetal scalps onto mice at the Univ. of Pittsburgh (https://tinyurl.com/5bp5xdxd).

Dianne Irving, Ph.D.


‘Mild’ Myocarditis. Give the risk of terrible outcomes, we should have a low threshold to evaluate any young person after COVID injections, with ECG and troponin values.  See these narratives (tinyurl.com/hzy296ww, tinyurl.com/5pvc46mb) from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Peter A. McCullough, M.D., Dallas, TX


Remdesivir v. HCQ. FDA has warned that concurrent use of hydroxychloroquine might reduce the effectiveness of remdesivir (RDV).  In a study published by NEJM, 27% of the patients received HCQ, and had lower mortality than those who did not. (Table S-3, https://tinyurl.com/46brebv7). FDA officials and Gilead colluded to prevent the use of HCQ for COVID-19 in order to sell RDV (https://tinyurl.com/sttt7u7n).

Leo Goldstein


Open Letter to AMA. How dare you join the…camouflaged communists who furtively…conflat[e] equity with equality? Ours is a nation built on the premise of equal standing under the law and only that…. Equity, on the other hand, is achieved by fiat, by taking from some and giving it to others at the point of a gun. Few better ruses exist for the state control of the means of production than through the illusory promise of achieving equity.

Julio Gonzalez, M.D., J.D., Venice, FL, tinyurl.com/3tkw4hb2


Insolvency. Medicare Part A will be insolvent by 2024—2 years sooner than trustees predicted. To make up the shortfall, $750 billion is needed. Suggestions include cutting Medicare Advantage payments or increasing taxes on high earners (JAMA 1/26/21). By January, nearly $3 trillion had already been spent on COVID.

Albert L. Fisher, M.D., Oshkosh, WI
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AAPS News June 2021 – COVID: Fauci, NIH, et al.

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Volume 77, no. 6  June 2021

The best and perhaps only government oversight mechanism available to the American people—the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)—has yielded more than 3,000 emails sent and received by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) for decades.

Dr. Fauci is the highest paid of 4 million federal employees including the President, (tinyurl.com/3jnx2jt5), and probably the most revered. Howard Bauchner, M.D., then editor-in-chief of JAMA Network, called him a “national treasure” in September 2020 (https://tinyurl.com/4jp9eyuf). 

Even after the email release, the Biden Administration press secretary Jen Psaki said that Dr. Fauci has been an “undeniable asset in our country’s pandemic response” and there was no intention to “relitigate emails from 17 months ago.” She did not need to circle back when asked whether there was any circumstance under which Biden would fire Fauci: “No!” (https://tinyurl.com/2hdyfyka). Chris Wallace of Fox News was quick to defend Dr. Fauci, claiming that he sees no actual “smoking gun” in the emails and saying that it’s important to “take the politics out of this” (https://tinyurl.com/24tf7rwf).

Donald Trump asserted that the emails show that the SARS-CoV-2 virus came from the Wuhan lab and demanded that “China should pay Ten Trillion Dollars to America, and the World, for the death and destruction they have caused!” (https://tinyurl.com/jwfjfar8). This misses the main point: what did Dr. Fauci and NIH know about research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and did they help to fund it?

China probably covered up early cases and destroyed evidence. But the Chinese Communist Party was not in charge of the American pandemic response. That would be the responsibility of American officials, acting on NIH “guidance” supported unquestioningly by academics, medical journals, organized medicine, media, Big Tech censors, and corporate-owned hospitals. Firing the 80-year-old mouthpiece, who was busily appearing on television or answering emails after midnight, would accomplish little.

Laura Ingraham’s “Medicine Cabinet”—Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., Peter McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., and Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.—discussed what Dr. Fauci and NIH got wrong on many issues, and the disastrous results (tinyurl.com/2ba7wamh).

Their policies assured maximum casualties by suppressing early at-home treatment with false claims about dangers of hydroxychloroquine, and recommending therapeutic nihilism based on alleged lack of “adequate” evidence. Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci threw evidence-based medicine and cost-benefit analysis overboard in his gyrations on destructive lockdowns and controversial masks, betting the country on an unprecedented vaccine.

Natural or Laboratory Origin?

The idea that SARS-CoV-2 might have escaped from a laboratory was “strongly condemned” as a “conspiracy theory” in a letter to The Lancet on Feb 19, 2020, drafted by a group of virologists led by Peter Daszak, who declared that they had “no competing interests.” Daszak is, however, president of EcoHealth Alliance, which funded research at WIV. EHA received more than $123 million in grants from the federal government from 2017 to 2020, some from NIAID. The Pentagon funneled almost $39 million to the group since 2013 (tinyurl.com/64249kch).

For 20 years virologists have been creating viruses more dangerous than found in nature. Genetic engineering and “gain of function” research is what their laboratories do. Newer methods of cutting and pasting viral genomes, called “no-see-um” or “seamless” approaches, leave no tell-tale marks of manipulation.

At WIV, scientists led by Shi Zheng-li or “Bat Lady” were using methods taught them by Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species, often under Biosafety Level 2 conditions—about as stringent as in a U.S. dental office. It is quite plausible to think that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from this lab, although it can’t be proved because records of Dr. Shi’s work have been sealed, writes Nicholas Wade (Bull Atomic Sci 5/5/21, https://tinyurl.com/4rbswx5d).

The most damning evidence for a laboratory origin is the presence of a double CGG code for arginine in the cleavage site of the SARS CoV-2  spike protein. This coding sequence is rare in nature, but common in the lab, and has not been found in any other coronaviruses (https://tinyurl.com/3xs6z7dt).

Emails showed that Dr. Fauci helped to “debunk” the lab leak theory (https://tinyurl.com/w4c5hbm). In 2012, Dr. Fauci said that the benefit of manipulating bat viruses was worth the risk of a pandemic (tinyurl.com/cj6c5rz7). According to Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, NIH tried to block his department’s investigation of WIV research. Then-acting undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, Chris Ford, reportedly was also hostile to an investigation. In a January 2021 memo he wrote: “I would also caution you against suggesting that there is anything inherently suspicious…about People’s Liberation Army (PLA) involvement at WIV…. [I]t would be difficult to say that military involvement in classified virus research is intrinsically problematic, since the U.S. Army has been deeply involved in virus research in the United States for many years” (Daily Mail 6/8/21, https://tinyurl.com/ver6urrn).

  Dr. Fauci brands the furor over the emails as “nonsense” and told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that “it’s really very much an attack on science” (https://tinyurl.com/32em8j3f).


Early Warning Signals

Early warning systems work only if they are turned on—and only if there is a response.

Vaccine Breakthrough: A total of 10,262 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough infections had been reported to CDC as of Apr 30, 2021; among these, 995 patients were known to be hospitalized, and 160  died.  Beginning May 1, CDC transitioned to monitoring only cases involving hospitalization or death (https://tinyurl.com/3m2j4p8s). As of Jun 1,  2021, 3016 hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases had been reported (tinyurl.com/2utarf79).

VAERS: Data entry into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is severely backlogged. Over a few months, the number of entries related to platelet problems increased 17-fold, from 370 to 6290 (jpands.org/vol26no2/merritt.pdf). Data entry and retrieval in the antiquated system is very difficult and time-consuming.  One person working with the system estimates that nonetheless 100,000 adverse events are being entered every month (https://tinyurl.com/yrnfddxm). Today, openvaers.com/covid-data lists 5,185 deaths, 571 miscarriages,  3,994 disabled.

Infertility: Infertility from vaccinating the college-age population would not be seen for years. The earliest effect would  appear in infertility clinics. After a previously successful egg donor got the COVID shot, zero of 30 embryos from her fourth donation survived past 5 days, and sperm from vaccinated donors were also nonviable (https://tinyurl.com/vk27vedj).


Precedent for Grooming

The term “grooming” is often used for victims of pedophiles.  But one member suggested that the Gleiwitz Sender (radio-station) incident might be applied to compulsory vaccination.

German operatives needed dead bodies dressed in enemy (Polish) uniforms as a prop in staging their false-flag Gleiwitz radio-station attack. Those corpses were supposed to serve as “proof” that an enemy assault had occurred and many attackers had been  killed by the brave defenders. The problem was how to procure so many dead bodies. Historical accounts are contradictory and mixed with propaganda. Medical details are buried in obscure, difficult-to-access German journals. The corpses were prison inmates, who had reportedly been accustomed to receiving periodic injections of vitamins mixed with low-dose amphetamines and morphine. They learned that those injections didn’t harm them and even made them feel better. On the day of the operation, a toxin was added (likely a mixture of acetonitrile and acetone, resulting in delayed production of hydrogen cyanide). Dead prisoners (“canned goods”) dressed in enemy uniforms were shot to imitate combat wounds. All was done quickly and efficiently with minimal personnel.

Children, parents, and physicians have experience with multiple vaccinations that have (mostly) been harmless. They trust the government and our scientific experts. We are not, after all, prison inmates in a totalitarian country.


“Violence does not always and necessarily lunge straight for your throat; more often than not it demands of its subjects only that they pledge allegiance to lies, that they participate in falsehood.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


Biodistribution of Vaccine Components

The mRNA vaccines contain mRNA coding for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein enveloped in lipid nanoparticles. According to the European Medicines Agency, (only) one biodistribution study, for a different (“surrogate”) type of mRNA that produces luciferase protein, has been carried out in male Sprague-Dawley rats. EMA reviewers stated that “No traditional pharmacokinetic or biodistribution studies have been performed with the [Pfizer] vaccine candidate BNT162b2” (tinyurl.com/5m3wj44m).

Low levels of surrogate mRNA were found in all examined tissues except kidney, including brain, “indicating that the mRNA/LNP platform crossed the blood/brain barrier, although to very low levels” (https://tinyurl.com/483686y3). The virus itself cannot do this. One may ask, what is to stop the immune system from attacking cells such as brain cells that express spike protein? A substantial fraction of VAERS reports involve neurological manifestations.

A FOI request showed that TGA (Therapeutic Good Administration), the Australian drug regulator, did not even request Pfizer raw data (tinyurl.com/fbrph7xa).


Incentive to Diagnose and Treat

Medicare pays hospitals 20% more for patients with a COVID diagnosis. This includes a  20% increase in the average Medicare payment for a respiratory system diagnosis with ventilator support for greater than 96 hours, which was $40,218 (tinyurl.com/v49tpfum). Additionally, hospitals get more money when they treat inpatients with drugs (such as remdesivir) or biologicals approved by FDA for COVID-19 (tinyurl.com/pm4vdrb8). The extra cash helps to sustain the big chains’ buying sprees as they scoop up weakened competitors and physicians’ practices (https://tinyurl.com/4pr6n9s).


Connections

Fauci’s Wife: Christine Grady, M.S.N., Ph.D., chief of bioethics and head of human subjects research at the NIH Clinical Center, and her husband have been described as “a medical power couple leading the fight against the virus” (tinyurl.com/u27t3xdj).

USAMRIID: China has infiltrated the U.S. military biodefense program at Fort Detrick, long an espionage target. China fuses military and civilian research (https://tinyurl.com/h23ejwdb).

Moderna: CEO Stéphane Bancel, now a billionaire, is former CEO of bioMérieux, whose founder was instrumental in building the Wuhan P4 lab (tinyurl.com/45t8vwj8).


AAPS Calendar

Jul 10. Missouri Chapter meeting,  Lake Ozark, MO – https://mailchi.mp/aapsonline/july-10-2021

Sep 30. Board meeting; welcome reception

Oct 1-Oct 2. 78th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA


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Citizens’ Petition to Block Premature Approval

On June 1, a number of prestigious physicians and scientists petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to  require that the vaccine manufacturers provide extensive safety data including “at least 2 years of follow-up of participants originally enrolled in pivotal clinical trials, even if the trials were unblinded and now lack a placebo control,” before approval of any COVID-19 vaccine [emphasis added]. Also needed are:

·  Thorough safety assessment of spike proteins produced in-situ by the body, and their full biodistribution and pharmacokinetics;

  • Studies of vaccine biodistribution from the administration site;
  • Thorough investigation of all severe adverse reactions reported in the U.S. and global pharmacovigilance systems;
  • Inclusion of gene delivery and therapy experts in the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC);
  • Enforcing stringent conflict-of-interest requirements. 

Prominent signatories include Peter Doshi, Ph.D.; Peter Gøtzsche, M.D.; Tom Jefferson, M.D.; Joseph Ladapo, M.D., Ph.D.; and Peter McCullough, M.D. (tinyurl.com/s6ezvx8).


Employees Sue Houston Methodist

Houston Methodist, a seven-hospital system, is being charged with wrongful discharge and violating a federal law dictating “that where a medical product is ‘unapproved’ then no one may be mandated to take it.” The 117 plaintiffs, including nurses, receptionists, technicians, and administrators, are asking for a temporary injunction against the firings. Employees can apply for religious or medical exemptions, but none of the 12 requests were granted. “It is unfortunate,” said CEO Marc  Boom, “that the few remaining employees who refuse to get vaccinated and put our patients first are responding in this way” (tinyurl.com/mc6dc9j8).

Plaintiffs include Jennifer Bridges, R.N., who has become the  voice of workers who object to mandatory vaccination, and Bob Nevens, the hospital’s former director of corporate risk. Nevens says the hospital was requiring him to be vaccinated even though he doesn’t treat patients and has been working from home for most of the past year. “My right to protect myself from unknown side effects of these vaccines has been placed below the optics of ‘Leading Medicine’” (https://tinyurl.com/3rnj8aup).


TRO Requested to Stop Vax in Children under 16

America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), former Minnesota  state senator Scott Jensen, M.D., and others filed for a temporary restraining order in federal court for the Northern District of Alabama against the emergency use authorization (EUA) permitting use of the COVID-19 “vaccines” in children under the age of 16.

AFLDS founder Simone Gold, M.D., J.D., said that these products are not vaccines but are experimental biological agents “whose harms are well-documented (although suppressed and censored) and growing rapidly, and we will not support using America’s children as guinea pigs.”

Plaintiffs will file suit arguing that EUAs should never have been granted and should be revoked immediately, and that numerous laws have been broken in the process of granting these EUAs and pushing the injections on Americans (tinyurl.com/zsmfvyyw).


Indiana Univ Mandate Called Unconstitutional

In a press release and letter to The IU Family for Choice, Not Mandates, the Bopp Law Firm of Terre Haute, IN, states that it believes that IU’s mandate in an unconstitutional violation of students’ rights to bodily integrity and is considering litigation. Students are invited to see the “What Do I Do Now?” section on the group’s website (tinyurl.com/fd389bxm).


Duty to Snitch

Effective May 31, 2021, Ohio MDs, DOs, and DPMs will be required to complete one hour of CME prior to license renewal on the topic of the duty to report misconduct under section 4731.224 of the Revised Code. “Examples of misconduct include, but are not limited to, sexual misconduct, impairment, practice below the minimal standards of care, and improper prescribing of controlled substances.” Failure to report a colleague’s misconduct carries a fine of $20,000.


Italy Declares COVID Jab Mandatory for All

An administrative decree of Mario Draghi’s government  has been approved by the Sanitary Dictatorship and enacted into law by parliament, making COVID jabs mandatory for all, regardless of religious beliefs. Those who refuse will be denied all medical assistance, in all hospitals and clinics, public and private. Poor people are being denied welfare checks. Any resistance can be deemed violent, and violence deemed a sign of insanity. In past weeks political dissidents have been threatened with or received TSO’s (being taken to a mental asylum) for refusing to comply with Sanitary Dictatorship decrees (tinyurl.com/6ynsw838).


Is Fauci a Distraction?

On May 28, Brian Gerrish, founder of UK Column, gave testimony before the Stiftung Corona Ausschuss, the German-based extraparliamentary inquiry into the medical establishment’s and public policymakers’ handling of the COVID crisis internationally. This was opened to initiate an international class action lawsuit led by attorney Reiner Füllmich.

Gerrish suggested that the Fauci story distracts attention from the critical questions the public is beginning to ask about the fear-based measures that are destroying the world’s middle class, and the dangers of the vaccination campaign—along with the massive urgency to vaccinate children who are at minimal risk from the disease  (https://tinyurl.com/pp86p5t9).


Solzhenitsyn’s American Millstone

Millstones grind grain into flour, and the focus in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book Between Two Millstones: Exile in America, 1978-1994 is on how the two great political systems of the mid-20th century grind the human soul into dust. The millstone of Western democracy, he warns, simulates the Soviet tyranny. “Western apparatchiks sold their souls to an ideology just as communists did—but without the cynicism” and with confident sanctimoniousness (https://tinyurl.com/c486xetx).


Correspondence

Freedom Is Expendable. The very day we learned of the Houston Methodist lawsuit, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) came out with guidance telling employers they can legally require their employees to get a COVID vaccination (WSJ 5/29/21). The article states: “And employers that are administering vaccines to their employees may also offer incentives as long as the incentives aren’t coercive.” The “incentive” being offered to the plaintiffs is that if they submit to taking the vaccine, they will be allowed to continue earning a living, paying their bills, and feeding their families.  How is that not coercive?

Minions at the FDA are currently working hard and fast to provide formal FDA approval of the jabs. That will moot some of the plaintiffs’ arguments. Operation “warp approval” will cut corners and take shortcuts like never seen before. In the meantime, this EEOC proclamation is clearly designed to discourage the flood of lawsuits that they recognize is coming, and to demoralize people to believe there is no hope.

In the lawsuit, David Bernard, CEO of Houston Methodist San Jacinto Hospital is quoted as saying: “100% vaccination is more important than your individual freedom. Every one of you is replaceable. If you don’t like what you are doing you can leave and we will replace your spot.”

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY


Immunity. While vaccine advocates assert that only the vaccines work in the end, the huge Israel study shows that previous infection (average 7 months in the past) cuts infection rate by 90% just like vaccination (https://tinyurl.com/89rey4c6). And we know that plasma memory B cells generally last years. And just because second cases of COVID can occur does not mean that they do occur with any frequency. The constant misinformation being promulgated today is overbearing.

Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., New Haven, CT


Fruitless Bat Search. China has tested more than 50,000 animals, including thousands of bats, to find evidence of COVID-19’s origins—amid a renewed international focus on whether the virus actually leaked from a laboratory (tinyurl.com/y74x9cny).

Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA


Boom for Billionaires. On Jan 21-24, 2020, the World Economic Forum met in Davos, Switzerland, and Moderna representatives, business leaders, and World Health Organization (WHO) director Dr. Tedros were there, discussing the mRNA jab. On Jan 30, WHO declared a public health emergency. A huge increase in wealth followed immediately. Michel Chossudovsky, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Ottawa, explained how the “killer virus” fear campaign and global lockdowns redistributed the losses of ordinary people from their pension funds, mutual funds savings, and investments to the rich who profited greatly from the “fore-knowledge.” The combined wealth increase of the 15 billionaires with the greatest growth in absolute wealth was $563 billion or 82%. Billionaires will buy out  bankrupt assets for pennies on the dollar. The “engineered destabilization of the global economy” would not have been possible without the constant fear promulgated by mainstream media, COVID-19 medical czars, and compliant medical professionals.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/33hns3w


Herd Immunity—Before and After. “Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when  a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection.” Now the corrupt WHO has changed the definition: “‘Herd immunity,’ also known as ‘population immunity,’ is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached.”

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ


It’s about Population Control. Socialism is misanthropic to the core. The “Great Reset”—the Deep State Globalist “destructionism” and power grab—is really just another iteration of leftist tyrannical ambition. Thomas DiLorenzo (https://tinyurl.com/4er52wnc) exposes the eugenicist totalitarians of the present like Bill Gates, Jr., and Klaus Schwab, the ideological heirs of Frederick Engels and Karl Marx. “Transhumanism,” strongly promoted and funded by Gates, is the new name for eugenics. It would involve integration of nanotechnology into the human body so that humans can be controlled remotely by the state. Klaus Schwab’s books go into excruciating detail about the digitalization of life—the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Robert Ehrlich, one of their ideological forebears, suggested putting sterilizing agents into food and water. Gates said that  if “we” do “a really great job on vaccines…, we could lower [world population] by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.”

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX



Dr. Fauci a Key Player. Because there IS effective COVID treatment, which Fauci opposes, the vaccine EUAs are fraudulent.  Most of his recommended and at times mandated interventions are worse than futile. It’s the greatest medical disaster in history.

Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, N

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