On the latest episode of “The Hidden Gateway” podcast, host Jesston Williams spoke to Dr. Robert Malone, an internationally recognized medical doctor and scientist who assisted with inventing mRNA vaccines.
The wide-ranging discussion covered:
The invention and early testing of mRNA technology, in which Malone was heavily involved.
How governments are employing different forms of coercion to drive vaccine uptake, policies Malone said he believes are illegal.
How public health authorities lack the normally required safety and efficacy information for a global vaccination campaign.
How governments and public health authorities are lying to the public “for their own good.”
Malone referenced two instances where citizens are being “enticed” to take what he refers to as the “experimental” vaccine.
“There was a period where West Virginia was trying to get people to get vaccinated,” Malone said. “And so they had a shotgun lottery. And in Canada, there was a policy of offering free ice cream to children to get them to take the jab even without their parents’ approval. So those are just two particularly clear examples of unfair coercion … It’s not actually legal.”
Malone likened what’s going on today with COVID vaccines to the illegal medical experiments conducted by Nazi Germany. “[During the Second World War], Jews and other ethnic groups were subjected to horrible experimental medical research,” Malone said. “And they justified it by saying it was for the common good.”
Malone said the Western World “agreed we weren’t going to do that anymore. Yet, from time to time we seem to forget, and of course, Tuskegee is one example, and frankly, this is another example.”
In an attempt to clear up misinformation coming from the medical establishment, Malone said fully vaccinated individuals can spread COVID. “The idea that if you have a workplace where everybody’s vaccinated, you’re not going to have virus spread is totally false. A total lie,” Malone said.
The vaccinated are actually the “super-spreaders” that everyone was told about in the beginning of the pandemic, Malone argued.
He said:
“If you consider the scientific fact that vaccinated people have less symptoms than the unvaccinated, but can still easily spread disease, consider your fellow vaccinated worker, whose unvaccinated son brought the disease home and gave it to him … He might not have any symptoms … but he’ll definitely be producing the virus. And he’s going to say, hey, I can go to work today. But he’s going to be spreading the virus like crazy.”
“If the government isn’t going to disclose to you what the [vaccine] risks are, and they’re not going to disclose to you what’s really going on because they think that you can’t handle the news … this is called the noble lie.”
Malone denounced the “noble lie” as “paternalistic authoritarianism.” He said the idea of governance-by-lying goes back to Plato and Ancient Greek philosophy which argues that it’s “okay for politicians and people in authority positions to lie to the general public because they have special knowledge and ability to understand things … and the general public can’t cope with that level of information. And so it’s okay to lie to them.”
“I really disagree with this line of thinking,” Malone said. “Yet it has been public policy in the United States and worldwide in public health for a very long time.”
Melissa Strickler, who previously worked for Pfizer as a quality inspector for 10 years, is blowing the whistle on how the brand’s COVID vaccine has some toxic ingredients that make it “glow.” These ingredients, however, are not in the label.
Strickler worked for the Big Pharma company’s McPherson, Kansas plant, where she claims to have inspected “hundreds of thousands of units” of vaccines throughout her 10-year stint at the company but never saw a vaccine that glowed.
“The vaccine glows, at least Pfizer’s does,” Strickler told LifeSite News. “It looks like someone took a blue glowstick, cracked it open and put it in the vial, but only if there is light and it is around a dark background.”
Strickler further explained that the discovery of how the Pfizer COVID vaccine glowed was because she photographed the vials once and noticed a blue fluorescent tinge to the fluid. Usually, the fluid in vaccine vials are as clear as water. Noticing the difference, she decided to ask about the ingredients of the Pfizer COVID vaccines to her superiors.
Strickler said she heard one doctor describe codes for ingredients in the Pfizer COVID vaccines, including the codes SM102 for luciferase, a “glow-in-the dark enzyme produced in fireflies, plants and fish that is used in bioluminescence research,” the report said. The luciferase will emit different colors depending on the various chemicals it is mixed with.
The Christian whistleblower then emailed Pfizer to find out if luciferase was truly in their COVID vaccine and she was told it was “only used in the testing of the vaccine” and not used in the final product. In fact, a study published in PubMed said that “Graphene oxide (GO), an oxidized derivative of graphene, is currently used in biotechnology and medicine for cancer treatment, drug delivery, and cellular imaging.”
Strickler argued, however, that “the way I see this is the whole thing is experimental.” She added that she had not seen the Cominarty labels being placed on the vials at the plant, referring to the Pfizer vaccine’s trade name that the Food and Drug Administration approved in August. She theorized that they are still using the Emergency Use Authorization batches.
Watch Strickler’s conversation with LifeSite:
Vaccine ingredients aren’t the only issue Strickler is having with Pfizer. In an interview with Project Veritas, the Christian whistleblower spoke about how company workers received emails from high-level employees forbidding their subordinates from discussing the role of aborted fetal cells in the development of the COVID shot.
An email from Pfizer senior director of worldwide research Vanessa Gelman read, “From the prospective of corporate affairs we want to avoid having the information on fetal cells floating out there. The risk of communicating this right now outweighs any potential benefit we could see, particularly with general members of the public who could take this information and use it in ways we may not want out there.”
Another email from Pfizer vice president and chief scientific officer Philip Dormitzer shed light on how the human embryonic kidney cells (HEK 293 cells) harvested from an aborted female baby in 1973 had reproduced a continuous line of cells used in Pfizer’s COVID vaccines. Stickler lamented, “It’s wrong in my opinion to benefit from an abortion. I don’t think God would want us doing those things. But it goes deeper than that as to public deceit and they’re trying to give it to children.”
A new paper in the European Journal of Epidemiology that analyzed 168 countries and 2,947 US counties found that higher vaccination rates were not associated with fewer COVID-19 cases.
On Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article noting that California has some of the lowest COVID-19 case rates in the US, even though the Golden State’s vaccination rate lags many states that are currently struggling with the delta variant.
“One clear example is the New England states of Vermont and Maine,” the Chronicle reported. “Relatively shielded from the worst of the nation’s previous surges, they have struggled against the delta variant, which has sent their case rates soaring.”
In fact, Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country. Among those 65 years and older, 99.9 percent are fully vaccinated, and 74 percent of those 18-64 are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Mayo Clinic.
Yet, as the Chronicle points out, despite its high vaccination rate, Vermont recently set its single-day case record for the entire pandemic. And as of Oct. 1, Vermont’s seven-day average case rate per 100k people was 30—triple that of the Bay Area.
California, the U.S. coronavirus hot spot early this year, in recent weeks has recorded some of the lowest case rates in the country — lower than some states that are more vaccinated.
There is widespread agreement among scientists that COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at reducing the risk of developing severe COVID symptoms, which can result in hospitalization and death.
Their effectiveness at reducing transmission of the virus, however, remains a subject of debate, particularly since the CDC released findings in June that show vaccinated individuals still contract the virus, transmit it, and carry just as many virus particles in their throat and nasal passages as unvaccinated individuals do when they contract the virus.
While scientists concede that the vaccines cannot stop transmission, many contend they still reduce transmission of the virus.
“We are confident vaccination against COVID-19 reduces the chances of transmitting the virus,” Johns Hopkins epidemiologists M. Kate Grabowski and Justin Lessler argued in The Daily Beast.
Other scientists are less sure, and a new study suggests their skepticism may be warranted. The study, published last month in the European Journal of Epidemiology, a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal, examined 168 countries and 2,947 counties in the United States and concluded that higher vaccination rates are not associated with fewer COVID cases.
“At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days,” the researchers concluded. “In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.” (emphasis added)
At the county level, the researchers said, there “also appears to be no significant signaling of COVID-19 cases decreasing with higher percentages of population fully vaccinated.”
The findings do not suggest people shouldn’t get vaccinated. Again, there’s robust evidence showing vaccines reduce the risk of severe symptomatic COVID-19 reaction. What the research does suggest, however, is that vaccines are primarily a matter of personal health, not public health.
This is precisely what Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine who studies epidemiology at Stanford, recently suggested. Bhattacharya noted that research indicates that the mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna offer abundant individual protection—Bhattacharya credits his own speedy recovery from COVID-19 to the vaccines—but don’t contribute to herd immunity or improve public health.
With every passing day, the case for vaccine mandates grows weaker and weaker.@SenatorBrakey highlights data from @DrJBhattacharya to show that an abundance of scientific research undermines the justifications for #Covid_19 vaccine mandates.https://t.co/V7BoxGHLLz
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The findings published in the European Journal of Epidemiology help explain why US states such as Vermont and Maine are suffering massive case outbreaks despite their high vaccination rates. (Public health experts also point out that California has much higher levels of natural immunity than its eastern counterparts, the Chronicle reports.)
But it doesn’t explain why so many continue to maintain that the vaccines reduce transmission of the virus as well as offer protection to individuals—despite an abundance of evidence (both empirical and anecdotal) to the contrary.
One explanation may be found in an observation from economist Ludwig von Mises.
Mises famously observed that much of the strife in the modern world is a struggle over who designs the world, authorities or individuals. As Mises put it, we can either have “the democratic process of the market, in which every individual has his share, [or] the exclusive rule of a dictatorial body.”
If getting vaccinated is simply a matter of individual health, there is little reason for “the planners” (as Mises called them) to exercise control over the public. It would be akin to requiring individuals to have cancerous tumors removed in the name of “public health”.
But if not getting vaccinated is a threat to public health, or “society,” then central planners have their reason (if not a valid justification) to exercise control over society.
Reminder: @SouthwestAir accepted $3.2 BILLION from taxpayers. That money kept its pilots employed during the pandemic. It also made @SouthwestAir the first airline to post a profit. And now, apparently, many of those pilots don’t want to help society by getting vaccinated.
In other words, evidence that shows COVID vaccination is primarily about individual health runs counter to the raison d’etre of the planners, which is to exercise their plan over society.
“What those calling themselves planners advocate is not the substitution of planned action for letting things go. It is the substitution of the planner’s own plan for the plans of his fellow-men,” Mises argued in Planned Chaos. “The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute pre-eminence of his own plan.”
For people trying to understand why for the first time in modern history public health officials are trying to combat a respiratory virus by coercing healthy individuals to take their desired actions—and in many cases lose their job and basic freedoms if they do not—Ludwig von Mises is required reading.
There is a lot to learn from this graph, but most obviously, the COVID vax does not stop infection.
The vax provides a private benefit (protection vs. severe disease), but limited public benefit (protection vs. disease spread).
Financial experts are pushing back against the Biden administration’s proposal to include a provision in the $3.5 trillion spending bill to extend the IRS’ reach to have bank transactions over $600 reported. The Democrats’ goal is to garner $463 billion in additional personal income tax over the next decade.
The Biden administration has said it is merely trying to ensure that wealthy Americans pay their fair share of taxes and don’t hide money or assets.
However, experts say giving such power to a regulatory body of the U.S. government is an overreach that could infringe on privacy and place undue regulatory and compliance burdens and costs on banks and other financial institutions. Plus, taking snapshots of the massive amount of transactional data in the U.S. banking system could lead to erroneous conclusions by the IRS.
In plain English, industry insiders and experts say that extending the powers of the IRS is just not practical, too expensive, and possibly a dystopian invasion of people’s privacy.
Harvey Bezozi, a Newsmax Finance Insider and self-proclaimed “IRS tax wizard” whose clientele includes a number of well-known rock musicians and Hollywood actors, says taking snapshots of his clients’ very fluid holdings could lead the IRS to mistake the purpose of these cash flows.
“Incoming cash deposits that are not subject to taxation can take the form of distributions to shareholders or partners of previously taxed business income, loans from businesses owned by the borrower or from outside lenders, retirement plan loans, or, more recently, proceeds from the SBA PPP [Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program] Shuttered Venue grants,” Bezozi says. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he explains, these grants helped clients survive the touring lockdown and provided working capital for current touring budgets.
These and other types of deposits, Bezozi says, “may be income subject to taxation in one of several ways, or they may be nontaxable deposits [that are simple] cash flows.”
In agreement is Gene McManus, a certified public accountant and financial planner who’s a partner with AP Wealth Management in Augusta, Georgia. He says empowering the IRS to scrutinize all financial transactions over $600 would open a floodgate of information that could be uncontrollable. “It would be akin to letting sunlight into a solitary confinement prison cell,” McManus tells Newsmax. “Light would show on things [that have] been in the dark for eons. As much as we think our economy has become electronic, there are many transactions that take place via cash.”
McManus also notes how popular it has become for people to exchange money through Venmo and social media sites — mostly cash deals. In fact, many people send money via the ACH Network, where electronic payments are arranged through their local bank.
Bezozi and McManus share two questions the government is likely to ask about this information: First, where did the cash come from to pay for the merchandise? And second, is there a taxable gain on the sale?
It is inevitable that the government would succeed in collecting more taxes if it were to expand its reach through the IRS, McManus says — and that would cause many fruitful one-on-one transactions between enterprising individuals to freeze.
Concerns Over Big Government Grow
Mark Matson, founder and CEO of Matson Money, says his clients are increasingly concerned about the infrastructure bills the Biden administration — with a Democratic majority in Congress — is proposing, as they will result in onerous taxes.
Matson Money’s clients include many entrepreneurs and wealthy individuals who have already had their businesses shut down by the government because of COVID-19.
“Many of my clients are family-oriented and are big believers in the American dream,” Matson tells Newsmax Finance. Since the onset of the worldwide pandemic, he says the government has dictated whether his clients can open a business, observe their religion in a place of worship, travel, or express their freedom of speech. “They are very apprehensive, overall, with the direction the country is going in,” Matson says.
The wealth manager recently spoke with Reagan economist Arthur Laffer, of “Laffer Curve” fame and a Matson Money board member, about the government’s growing reach into people’s personal information.”
“[President] Biden says he doesn’t have anything against rich or successful people, but this proposed measure appears to be very vindictive,” Matson says. It would position the government to be able to “confiscate as much wealth as possible and transfer it back to government coffers in the form of socialistic programs.”
Forty large banks and trade associations — including the American Bankers Association, Mortgage Bankers Association, and National Bankers Association — recently banded together to send a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, urging the lawmakers to drop the IRS data measure.
“These measures would create significant operational and reputational challenges for financial institutions, increase tax preparation costs for individuals and small businesses, and create serious financial privacy concerns,” they wrote. “We urge members to oppose any efforts to advance this ill-advised new reporting regime.”
And it’s not just the U.S. government — foreign governments also are looking to extend their oversight into people’s lives, according to some reports. According to one report, the plan is just one part of a government “domestic surveillance program.” Reason.com called it “a tripartite strategy for transforming the entire global financial system into a harmonious, haven-free collection funnel to the IRS.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has proposed a similar bill, which Reason.com says advocates for “a vast, intrusive financial surveillance system in the name of closing the ‘tax gap.’”
The great medieval Jewish philosopher and poet, Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, was based in Spain and aspired to live in Israel someday. He ultimately realized his dream. Famously, he wrote: “My heart is in the East, and I am at the utmost corner of the West.” With winter approaching, I have no desire to be in New York or New Jersey, but I relate to those words. I am at the utmost corner of Gavin Newsom’s and Nancy Pelosi’s west, and I see first-hand why the productive middle class, including so many among my non-Jewish friends and even congregants in my own synagogual community, leave California. Herewith a bullet-pointed primer, short and sour:
1. Productive people approaching retirement find themselves on fixed incomes (pension, social security, etc.). So they will take in the same amount of annual income regardless of where they live. But if they are in California, that income is taxed by the state also, not just by the federal IRS, and at a rate that can be heaviest of any state, as high as 13.3 percent. By contrast, no income is state-taxed in more popular destinations like Nevada, Texas, and Florida.
2. The California weather is beautiful. But — unlike colder northeastern and midwestern states — Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Florida also offer competitively mild winters and year-round pleasant weather. Democrats may have a monopoly on California, but California does not have a monopoly on nice weather.
3. Car gasoline in California is extra expensive because of anti-smog and other “Green” regulatory add-ons that are funded by imposing taxes on the states’ residents. The difference can be as much as $1.50 a gallon. Over a year that can come to $500-$1,000 for a two-car family.
4. California has many statewide regulations promoted by the Left. For example, although this food-shopping regulation now has been mostly suspended during the COVID pandemic, it otherwise has been hard to get single-use plastic bags instead of paper unless you pay an extra 10 cents per reusable plastic bag. If you need five or eight bags at a large family supermarket shopping, that is close to a wasted dollar. If you shop twice weekly, that is a dollar or two. Over a year, that is another $100 sacrificed to the woke altar, and some shoppers also feel they are made to feel guilty in front of virtue-signalers on the check-out line. Interestingly, reusable bags carry a greater probability of transmitting disease than do single-use bags.
5. Traffic on freeways that used to flow rapidly now is very much like the Manhattan rush hour: stop-and-go. Orange County commuters have as much as a daily two-hour drive to Los Angeles, and then 90 minutes back (slightly less traffic as the night wears on). The 405 Freeway might better be called Error 404. It is the same to and from the San Fernando Valley. Since the Obama years, many no longer can find work near home as they used to, and therefore need to commute from the Valley to L.A. city proper, and then vice versa. The freeway hours take a toll on the human body and spirit.
6. The homelessness issue has worsened and intensified. Because of the warm climate, many homeless move to California from colder states. Moreover, California publicizes, with virtue-signaling pride, the many and variegated “entitlements” (i.e., handouts) and the vast array of social services it offers healthy and capable people who choose instead not to earn a dime. That attracts even more to come and sup on the taxpayers’ teats. The Rich legally avoid paying taxes not by scamming or cheating but by employing skilled financial advisors and tax-law experts who know the ropes. The middle class pay the freight. As the steady surge of Homeless stream to California, induced by news that California pays and offers what other more conservative “red” states do not, politicians find they must increase financial allotments to keep up with ever-increasing demands for “entitlements” and services. The bill is passed to the middle class.
7. The Left virtue-signals further by coddling The Homeless like pets, but most of these unfortunate souls are not lacking shelter because they have been “priced out” of real estate. Rather, they typically are mentally ill, and compassion should dictate that they be escorted from the streets and treated. Instead, the Left emphasizes “protecting” their supposed “civil rights,” and they are permitted to occupy sidewalks in formally authorized homeless encampments. News reports of dramatic and disturbing-to-read incidents appear too frequently. The Homeless typically urinate and defecate publicly because, realistically, what else can they do when their excretory systems demand excretion? It is not good even when there is no pandemic. Amid a pandemic, it is even worse.
8. The state has a disproportionate number of zoning laws that limit construction of multi-unit dwellings (e.g., apartment houses). These laws preserve real estate values and desirable panoramic views. As a result, there is a severe housing shortage, especially in the wealthiest virtue-signaling woke communities like Silicon Valley, Malibu, Beverly Hills, and San Francisco districts that are home to the Nancy Pelosis and Gavin Newsoms. The housing shortage is exacerbated by the flow of illegals (“undocumented immigrants”) from south of the border, which continues unabated — and will not stop because the Democrats correctly have discovered that illegal immigration changes the electorate, replacing historically solid conservative Republican majorities with ersatz Democrat majorities that will last for generations as long as the needy are kept perpetually dependent on Government. Of course, the illegals themselves may not vote, but the Democrats are playing the long game. Illegals eventually get legalized by amnesty, and their kids anyway get deemed legal, while their grandkids are born on American soil and thus are citizens. Accordingly, the population flow of people who have no assets and rely completely on government “entitlements” (i.e., handouts) increases, while the available housing remains static. As a result, the law of supply-and-demand results in extremely high housing costs, both purchase and rental.
9. With similar impact to the above, liberal-left regulations impose rent controls on landlords to stop them from pricing out their tenants. As a result of this humanitarian concern, landlords stop renting out their apartments and instead convert them to condominium units that they sell. That takes even more rental housing off the market, resulting in even higher rental costs for units available.
10. Because of liberal-woke forestry policies, tree trimming and logging are severely regulated. As a result, the underbrush builds up and frequently may not be cleared out. Dead trees, even dead branches, often may not be cut down or pruned. Such “Green” regulations result in devastating forest fires that become nationally dramatic wildfires, even as trained firefighters with advanced tools cannot drive their land equipment to sources of the fires because they may not cut down trees to widen pathways for roadways to accommodate access for serious firefighting equipment. Beyond the obvious tragedy of it all, the state must expend enormous financial resources to pay for it all and to rebuild. The middle class receive the bill.
11. Major cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco now have adopted extremely “progressive” crime policies. Accused criminals now are released without bail on a “compassionate” theory that innocent people otherwise end up sitting wrongly in custody, awaiting arraignment for crimes they never perpetrated. As a result, apprehended real criminals return to the streets instantly and repeat their crimes, often almost immediately, while not honoring promises to appear later for arraignment. The pandemic has camouflaged certain numbers, as courts and police have reduced arrests, bookings, and jail and prison populations. Meanwhile, even as criminals are coddled, police are harangued and shamed, threatened with defunding and subjected to abuse and harassment. This induces police to submit record-high resignations and to file for record-high early retirements. In addition, the anti-police culture deters police on the beat from “sticking out their necks” and getting directly involved in more perilous matters that are susceptible to their “looking the other way.” The result: crime rates in the state’s larger cities have increased notably in areas like homicides and car thefts.
12. Amplifying the crime problem, Proposition 47 largely decriminalized theft and drug crimes by reducing those and a number of other “non-violent” felonies to misdemeanors. AB 109 allowed for approximately 30,000 felons to be released from state prison with most going on probation rather than parole. This bill removed the option of prison sentences for crimes such as auto theft, drug felonies, and domestic violence and replaced it with county jail time or rehabilitation services. It is in the nature of law enforcement throughout the country for prosecutors to “bargain down” charges to lesser crimes in return for guilty pleas. When the charges begin lower, the “plea deals” result in recidivist criminals who have no criminal records for next time.
13. Because of the vast increase of illegals (“undocumented immigrants”), more people in California now require access to the same living resources, but infrastructure has not been built at a pace to keep up with increased demands on those resources. As a result, there are water shortages, for example, exacerbated by a recent few years’ of drought, which happens historically not because of “man-made climate change” but because California is naturally a desert. Consequently, there are laws uniquely restricting water faucets and toilets’ water flow — restrictions that do not exist in other states. Thus, while shopping on a commercial website like Amazon, a consumer’s effort to buy a plumbing device, even a simple faucet washer or aerator, or a certain kind of light bulb, gets met with a notification reading: “This product may not be shipped to California.”
14. The Left’s move to enforce “green energy” has resulted in state mandates to utility companies to redirect spending and reprioritize budgeting. For example, amid the advent of modernity, certain electric utilities were taking down electric lines that were on electric poles and were burying those wires underground. The green energy mandates required them to reallocate their budgets for solar energy and the like. They had to stop their spending on burying overhead electric wires. As a result, sparks from electric wires have started horrific wildfires, like the Paradise (ironic name of city) wildfire of two years ago that burned down a city but never would have happened if the wires had been redirected under the ground.
15. Meanwhile, the solar energy so far has not proven to be as reliable or as abundant as green energy advocates had assumed, asserted, and assured — and the state therefore now regularly runs into power outages year-round, especially in summer, leading to consciously planned “brown outs” for which residents receive advance-warning emails, postal mails, and telephoned “robocalls” to advise them that, on such-and-such date and time in the next week or two, their energy will be cut off for, say, six hours. That pre-planned “brown out” not only means no house lights, no TV, no air conditioning, and no washing machine and dryer for those six hours, but then all home electric timers and clocks have to be reset.
16. California now is instituting a statewide curriculum change in the public schools, requiring a year of “critical ethnic studies” for students to graduate. This woke educational innovation will teach greater understanding and appreciation for certain minorities who are important demographic participants in the state but inexorably will re-characterize Caucasians as part of the White Privilege class, and it is anticipated that exotic movements unrelated to the California experience — like Zionism or Christopher Columbus’s journeys — will be taught by inadequately supervised classroom teachers as “racist” movements that disadvantage the “indigenous.” Meanwhile, standards for teaching reading, cursive writing, basic mathematics, and common grammar are more compromised than ever. For religionists fleeing to Catholic parochial schools and Jewish yeshiva day schools, the impact of the curricular changes is minimized almost completely. Similar success in avoiding the curriculum changes can be attained by others who pull their children out of the public schools and move them into high-tuition non-parochial private schools. The ones who lose out — for life — are the ones whom the curricular changes supposedly are meant to “benefit.”
17. The expanded population of illegals dramatically has increased the number of school-age and college-age young people who must be educated. All reasonable Californians — regardless of political ideology — agree they must be educated. If they are not educated at public expense, the cost would be so much worse later if there would emerge a demographic who never gained reading, writing, and math skills. However, their weaker English skills consign them to the bottom of classes, while increasing class sizes — always an impediment to enhanced learning. Likewise in terms of college, seats are set aside for the children of “the undocumented” to be admitted to state-supported schools (including the University of California system that includes superior colleges like UCLA and Berkeley, the California State University system that historically has offered excellent colleges just a notch below like Northridge and Fullerton, and the community college system). Those students are less prepared for college, while the children of the actual taxpayers who support those schools are compelled to attend out-of-state public colleges or in-state private colleges because fewer places are available for them in the state-supported schools for which their parents pay. While some of The Rich pay the coach on the rowing team to sneak their kids in, the middle class pay the ultimate bill.
That’s it in a nutshell. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Amid virtue-signaling, the universe of woke initiatives and solutions backfire. The rich have every reason to maintain the system and its Democrat political infrastructure, as they preach a camouflage of socialism and D.I.E. — diversity, inclusion, and equity — that does not directly disadvantage them, their colleagues, or their families. The poor remain too unsophisticated to grasp that the rhetoric singing their praises buries them and consigns their children to the same structural disadvantages they face. And the rest of America pays the price of abiding a state that sends them two United States senators like a Dianne Feinstein and a Kamala Harris sitting on choice Senate committees, bearing two important votes on the full gamut of national issues, and potentially emerging as even higher stationed political figures.
A British Conservative MP has died after being stabbed multiple times on Friday when meeting members of the public in his constituency.
Sir David Amess, 69, who represented Southend West in Essex, was fatally attacked at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea.
Conservative lawmaker David Amess outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, England on Sept. 17, 2003. (John Stillwell/PA via AP)
The father-of-five is the second sitting MP to be killed in such circumstances in five years, following the death of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016 as she attended a constituency surgery.
According to Sky News, a man walked into the meeting place and “stabbed him multiple times.”
In a statement, Essex Police said: “We were called to an address in Eastwood Road North shortly after 12.05 p.m. [Friday]. We attended and found a man injured. He was treated by emergency services but, sadly, died at the scene.”
Emergency services at the scene near the Belfairs Methodist Church in Eastwood Road North, where Conservative MP Sir David Amess has reportedly been stabbed several times at a constituency surgery, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England on Oct. 15, 2021. (Nick Ansell/PA via AP)Emergency services at the scene near the Belfairs Methodist Church in Eastwood Road North, where Conservative MP Sir David Amess has reportedly been stabbed several times at a constituency surgery, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England on Oct. 15, 2021. (Nick Ansell/PA via AP)
The force said a 25-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of murder and a knife was recovered.
“He is currently in custody,” the police said. “We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.”
Responding to the news, Carrie Johnson, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wife, wrote on Twitter: “Absolutely devastating news about Sir David Amess. He was hugely kind and good. An enormous animal lover and a true gent. This is so completely unjust. Thoughts are with his wife and their children.”
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said on Twitter: “This is tragic and horrible news. My thoughts are with David’s wife and children, the wider family, friends, and David’s community. A truly terrible day for British politics but most importantly of all our prayers are with all the people who loved David.”
According to the BBC, Amess was known as a social conservative and a prominent campaigner against abortion.
Following his death, flags have been lowered to half-mast outside Parliament.
(Military.com) A senior cybersecurity official at the Pentagon said he quit because he thought it was impossible for the US to compete with China on AI.
Nicolas Chaillan joined the U.S. Air Force as its first chief software officer in August 2018. He worked to equip it and the Pentagon with the most secure and advanced software available.
But Chaillan quit on September 2. In his departing LinkedIn post, he cited the Pentagon’s reluctance to make cybersecurity and AI a priority as a reason for his resignation.
Speaking to the Financial Times in his first interview since leaving, Chaillan said China was far ahead of the US.
“We have no competing fighting chance against China in fifteen to twenty years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion,” he said.
Chaillan went on to say that the AI capabilities and cyber defenses of some government departments were at “kindergarten level,” the FT said.
A number of US departments have been subject to hacking attempts and ransomware attacks in recent years.
In April 2020, the US Treasury, Department of Homeland Security, State Department, and Department of Defense were compromised in the SolarWinds hack. Hackers were able to spy on the digital activities of staff and access some of their emails.
Chaillan also told the FT that US national security was being compromised by Google’s refusal to work with the Pentagon on AI.
Google stopped working with the Pentagon in 2018 after 12 employees quit over a project where Google helped the Pentagon make software that could improve the accuracy of drone strikes.
In China, Chaillan said, private cyber and AI companies were at Beijing’s beck and call.
China is aiming to becoming the leading AI superpower by 2030, and a March report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence said the US was “not prepared to defend the United States in the coming artificial intelligence (AI) era.”
Chaillan said it didn’t matter whether the US spent three times as much as China on defense because it was being allocated to the wrong areas, the FT reported.
In the LinkedIn post announcing his departure, Chaillan said he was frustrated with the Pentagon’s reluctance to commit to cybersecurity.
“I am just tired of continuously chasing support and money to do my job. My office still has no billet and no funding, this year and the next,” he wrote.
Chaillan told the FT that he planned to testify to Congress about the threat posed by China.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
The US Navy will discharge all sailors refusing to take the Covid jab without an exemption.
All active duty Navy personnel must be vaccinated by November 28 will be “discharged with no lower than a general discharge under honorable conditions.”
According to the Navy, 94% of sailors are fully vaccinated and 99% have received their first dose.
All active-duty Navy personnel must be vaccinated by Nov. 28 or face separation, according to a Navy administrative message released Wednesday.
Any active-duty Navy service members who do not get fully vaccinated or do not have an approved or pending exemption will be processed for an honorable separation without involuntary separation, according to NAVADMIN 225/21, released by Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Lescher and Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell.
Service members in the Ready Reserve Navy will need to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 28.
In order to meet the deadline, active duty members must receive their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, if receiving the two-shot Pfizer or Moderna version, by Nov. 14, according to a Thursday Navy news release. A person is not fully vaccinated until 14 days after receiving the second shot.
For members in the reserve, the deadline to receive the second shot is Dec. 14.
Those who are separated for refusing the vaccine will be discharged with no lower than a general discharge under honorable conditions, according to the Navy release.
Hundreds of thousands of US troops are still not fully vaccinated against Covid as the Pentagon’s deadline looms.
There are different vaccination deadlines across the different services – The Navy and Marine Corps both share a November 28 deadline.
The Air Force’s deadline for vaccination is November 2 and the Army’s deadline is December 15.
Biden told the 2.1 million servicemember they had to get vaccinated against Covid or face punishment.
Next time you see a climate change protest in the news, be aware it may be backed by the Chinese Communist Party.
A Chinese Communist Party-linked foreign influence group sponsored a climate change conference seeking to mobilize youth advocates in America, the National Pulse can reveal.
The entity sponsoring the recent conference, the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), is part of Beijing’s “United Front” effort, which the U.S. government identifies as seeking to “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing.”
CUSEF’s website notes that it “sponsored” the Sino-American Youth Dialogue on Climate Change, carried out in collaboration with two schools: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tsinghua University.
“Co-hosted by Tsinghua University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Sino-American Youth Dialogue on Climate Change (SAYD) will be held in October 8, a month prior to COP26. The aim of the event is to offer a platform for young people from China and the U.S. to put forward ideas and suggestions for the COP26 to address climate change and sustainable development,” CUSEF explains before posing the following questions to attendees:
What should governments do to confront climate emergency?
How should businesses develop sustainability strategies to achieve net zero emissions?
What are the actions that we, as individuals, could do to reduce wastage and gas emissions?
The conference explicitly seeks to mobilize youth activists, as its theme is “making carbon neutral, youth in action.”
“Through discussions and sharing among youth delegates and field experts, the forum hopes to reach consensus on the issue and form valuable policy recommendations,” the conference’s website adds.
Among the event’s speakers were CUSEF founder Tung Chee-hwa, Chinese Communist Party officials, and presidents from both MIT and Tsinghua University. Tsinghua University’s involvement in the conference also follows the school reportedly launching cyberattacks against the U.S. government and having a “clear connection” to the Chinese government on issues of technology and national security according to the U.S. State Department.
The school is the alma mater of regime leader Xi Jinping and hosts a “Marxist” journalism school, training the next generation of Chinese state-run media propagandists with the assistance of the New York Times, CNN, and others.
“We should be committed to a firm and correct political orientation. Our School has been actively exploring the theory and practices of Marxist Journalism, namely, to applying the Marxist theory in observing the world, selecting and handling news production,” the dean’s introduction letter reads.
“The court seeks simply to avoid the risk of irreparable harm to the parties and to maintain the status quo while the court holds an evidentiary hearing.”
A Texas judge has ruled in favor of United Airlines employees who brought suit against United for a “pattern of discrimination against employees who requested religious or medical accommodations.”
“The Court now concludes it is necessary to issue this Temporary Restraining Order to avoid risking irreparable injury and to maintain the status quo in this case pending the Court’s hearing and resolution of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction,” US District Judge Mark Pittman wrote in his ruling.
The restraining order makes it clear it isn’t ruling on the merits of argument by either party, but giving relief until the time of a later hearing. The order expires on October 26.
Attorney for the plaintiff Mark Paoletta said that “United Airlines’ refusal to provide reasonable accommodations to its vaccine mandate violates the federal civil rights protections of our clients, the hard working men and women at United. We look forward to our clients’ rights be permanently protected.”
About 2,000 employees pursued religious or medical exemptions from vaccine requirements at United Airlines. Company CEO Scott Kirby told CBS on Wednesday that 232 members of the 67,000 workforce will be terminated because they are neither vaccinated nor have filed for an exemption.
Kirby said that he made the decision to enact a mandate after he learned that two pilots had died from COVID.
“Vaccine requirements work and nearly all of United’s US employees have chosen to get a shot,” United Airlines said per CNN. “For a number of our employees who were approved for an accommodation, we’re working to put options in place that reduce the risk to their health and safety, including new testing regimens, temporary job reassignments and masking protocols.”
Both American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have stated their intentions to comply with the Biden administration’s rules for federal government contractors to get vaccinated against COVID.
Widespread delays and cancellations for Southwest flights from October 8 through 11 caused a social media uproar, with many saying that this was due to vaccine requirements. That speculation, buoyed by a lawsuit filed by Southwest pilots on Friday, was contradicted by Southwest’s CEO who blamed the outages on “absenteeism.”
Texas Governor Abbott issued an executive order barring private businesses from enacting COVID vaccine mandates. The Biden administration is set to issue new regulations via OSHA and the Labor Department for vaccine requirements applicable to all US businesses with over 100 employees.
Pentagon Official Says He Resigned Because US Cybersecurity Is No Match for China
(Military.com) A senior cybersecurity official at the Pentagon said he quit because he thought it was impossible for the US to compete with China on AI.
Nicolas Chaillan joined the U.S. Air Force as its first chief software officer in August 2018. He worked to equip it and the Pentagon with the most secure and advanced software available.
But Chaillan quit on September 2. In his departing LinkedIn post, he cited the Pentagon’s reluctance to make cybersecurity and AI a priority as a reason for his resignation.
Speaking to the Financial Times in his first interview since leaving, Chaillan said China was far ahead of the US.
“We have no competing fighting chance against China in fifteen to twenty years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion,” he said.
Chaillan went on to say that the AI capabilities and cyber defenses of some government departments were at “kindergarten level,” the FT said.
A number of US departments have been subject to hacking attempts and ransomware attacks in recent years.
In April 2020, the US Treasury, Department of Homeland Security, State Department, and Department of Defense were compromised in the SolarWinds hack. Hackers were able to spy on the digital activities of staff and access some of their emails.
Chaillan also told the FT that US national security was being compromised by Google’s refusal to work with the Pentagon on AI.
Google stopped working with the Pentagon in 2018 after 12 employees quit over a project where Google helped the Pentagon make software that could improve the accuracy of drone strikes.
In China, Chaillan said, private cyber and AI companies were at Beijing’s beck and call.
China is aiming to becoming the leading AI superpower by 2030, and a March report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence said the US was “not prepared to defend the United States in the coming artificial intelligence (AI) era.”
Chaillan said it didn’t matter whether the US spent three times as much as China on defense because it was being allocated to the wrong areas, the FT reported.
In the LinkedIn post announcing his departure, Chaillan said he was frustrated with the Pentagon’s reluctance to commit to cybersecurity.
“I am just tired of continuously chasing support and money to do my job. My office still has no billet and no funding, this year and the next,” he wrote.
Chaillan told the FT that he planned to testify to Congress about the threat posed by China.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
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