Flu Shots Increase Susceptibility to Common Cold, Randomized Trial Demonstrates Tradeoff

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH* 

For the past three years I have skipped the influenza vaccine and have noticed progressively fewer viral upper respiratory tract illnesses or common colds.

In decades prior I had taken forty flu shots as requirements in medical school, residency, fellowship, and medical staff. Could the flu shot weaken or misdirect the immune system on a regular basis?

In 2012, Cowling et al performed a prospective, double-blind randomized placebo controlled trial in children ages 6-15 years [... ] who received either the 2008–2009 seasonal trivalent influenza inactivated vaccine (TIV; 0.5 mL Vaxigrip; Sanofi Pasteur) or [a] placebo.

Pakistani Police Step in to Protect Accused in Blasphemy Arrest. Trouble May Be Brewing in the UK

[I]n a new blasphemy case in Pakistan, police successfully protected a blasphemy suspect from being murdered by an angry mob. After being charged and then arrested for insulting the Qur’an, hundreds of protestors blocked a roadway near the police station and demanded the man, named Humayun Ullah, be handed over to them to be lynched. Police did not comply and managed to protect the man by dispersing the crowd. Unfortunately, the larger issue here is the man’s arrest in the first place, enforcing the deeply unjust and backward legal code of Pakistan.

Finally, trouble may be brewing in the UK as one Labour MP has suggested that Parliament pass what would amount to new blasphemy laws. An exchange in the House of Commons appeared to “open the door” to such legislation, as MP Tahir Ali asked Prime Minister Starmer whether he would commit to legislation in Britain that would criminalize the “desecration” of religious texts. 

U.S. House Investigative Report Confirms That Almost Everything the Alternative Media Said About COVID Origins Was TRUE

By Mike Adams, pictured right. To view the original publication, click here.

So four years after the COVID pandemic nightmare was unleashed upon America by a cabal of junk science tyrants and power-hungry vax-o-crats, the US House has just released a damning, detailed investigative report that reveals the independent media was right all along.

COVID was engineered in a lab.

Mask demands and vaccine mandates were based on junk science.

Lockdowns were completely made up by self-appointed scientism authoritarians.

The government covered up the truth and pushed disinformation propaganda on purpose.

Dr. Fauci and others were guilty as hell.

Town Bans American Flag From Council Meetings

 Todd Starnes November 27, 2024

The Edison Township Council in New Jersey has banned citizens from having American flags, copies of the U.S. Constitution or “other props” at meetings.

A citizen who objected to the new rules was told by council president Nishith Patel that he was in violation ordered police to remove the man from the council chamber.

“To consider the American flag and the Constitution a prop when someone raises it is an insult to what the flag is, what the flag stands for and what this country is,” resident Maryann Hennessey told MyCentralJersey.com. “For you to consider the use of the American flag a prop is disgusting.”

Patel told the Edison Reporter that “any props will be considered not conducive to good order and as the President I am making that call.”

UK: The Benign Term "Assisted Dying"

Original publication: Nov 15, 2024  

By Professor John Wyatt (pictured right).

The term 'euthanasia' - literally "good death" - was adopted in the 1870s to refer to the intentional medical homicide of suffering patients through chloroform or other anaesthetics.

Since then, a long list of misleading labels have been applied by campaigners, from 'Easeful Death' to 'Medical Aid in Dying', all of which serve to obfuscate the unsettling reality of the issue - that administrating a lethal cocktail of drugs is fraught with long-lasting implications and the potential of trauma for all involved.

Instead, reassuring words like 'safety', 'choice' and 'protection' abound in MP Kim Leadbetter’s Private Member’s Bill, published on 11th November 2024, which is entitled 'Choice at the End of Life’, undoubtedly picking up on the phraseology of Dignity in Dying, the leading campaign organisation, who use the innocuous description “dying people deserve the choice to control the timing and manner of their death”, airbrushing out the messiness and emotional complexity involved in actually carrying out such an act, let alone the real possibility of vulnerable people facing coercion to die, should the Bill became law in the UK.

Putin Bans Adoption of Russian Children to Nations that Allow Child Sex Changes

By David Krayden
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill Saturday banning the adoption of Russian babies by people in countries that have legalized sex changes and gender transitioning. The Russian leader also approved another law that stops the dissemination of material that tries to persuade couples to not procreate, the Associated Press reported.

The bills were passed by both houses of Russia’s Parliament and are part of Putin’s agenda to support the traditional Russian family and block the promotion of LGBTQ-friendly or gender ideology policies.

Russian lower house Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who co-authored the adoption ban legislation, has previously stated that “it is extremely important to eliminate possible dangers in the form of gender reassignment that adopted children may face in these countries.” The adoption ban would affect 15 countries in much of Western Europe, Australia and Canada. Russia had already banned adoptions by citizens of the United States in 2012.

With a declining Russian birth rate and smaller population, Putin has also encouraged couples to have more babies. The bill aimed at so-called “child-free propaganda" would punish violators with fines of up to $5 million rubles or $50,000 USD.

Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, Comes Out Against Fluoride in Water Supply

Ladapo admitted to previously being in favor of fluoridation .... 

Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo issued a new guidance on Nov. 22, advising against the long-standing practice of adding fluoride to the public drinking water supply.

“Adding fluoride to water increases the risk of neuropsychiatric disease in children and reduces their IQ,” Ladapo said in a post on social media platform X. “We can strengthen teeth without consuming this neurotoxin.”

In his guidance, Ladapo states that fluoride, which is known to strengthen teeth and make them more resistant to decay, is “widely available from multiple sources,” such as toothpaste and mouthwashes, and cites several studies that found a connection between negative mental side effects and fluoride exposure during childhood and pregnancy.

Those side effects include an association with lowered IQ, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, as well as decreased child inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility.

Child Health Defense (CHD) Asks Supreme Court to Pause Disciplinary Actions Against Doctors Who Criticized COVID Policies

Lawyers for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) today filed a second request with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to pause disciplinary proceedings against several Washington state doctors accused of spreading false information about COVID-19, including the virus and the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.

The emergency request stems from a lawsuit filed in March alleging the Washington Medical Commission violated the doctors’ First Amendment right to criticize the “mainstream COVID narrative” and the public’s First Amendment right to hear the opposing viewpoints.

On Wednesday, Associate Justice Elena Kagan rejected the plaintiffs’ original request. Attorneys submitted today’s request to Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.

Rick Jaffe one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, said that although the practice is “disfavored,” Supreme Court rules allow petitioners to resubmit applications for injunctions.

“We think the issue is important enough and has national consequences such that we should leave no stone unturned,” Jaffe said. “Justice Thomas has a long history of protecting First Amendment rights.”

In addition to CHD, plaintiffs in the case include Drs. Richard Eggleston, Tom Siler and Daniel Moynihan; and former NBA star John Stockton. Stockton alleged that suppressing the doctors’ public speech violated his First Amendment right to listen to such speech, is also a plaintiff. 

Montana Republicans Sweep Public Service Commission Races

Photo Credit: Eliza Wiley / MTFP

by Amanda Eggert11.06.2024

Republicans have swept the Montana Public Service Commission election, winning each of the three seats open this cycle and maintaining the GOP’s domination of the commission. 

Commissioners are tasked with balancing the financial health of investor-owned utilities with the interests of their customers, who cannot shop for other providers.

During this election cycle, voters in many of Montana’s largest cities — Billings, Missoula, Bozeman, Butte and Helena — were asked to choose between seasoned Republican politicians and political newcomers. 

Major campaign issues ranged from recent electricity rate hikes authorized by the current commission to the fate of Colstrip’s coal-fired power plant amidst uncertainty surrounding federal pollution regulations to how the commission should approach a petition asking the PSC to incorporate climate impacts in its regulatory role.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Foe of Drug Makers and Regulators, Is Poised to Wield New Power

The New York Times reported:

When 12,000 public health professionals gathered in Minneapolis last week for the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as surgeon general in the first administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, issued a pointed warning about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“If R.F.K. has a significant influence on the next administration, that could further erode people’s willingness to get up to date with recommended vaccines,” Dr. Adams said. “I am worried about the impact that could have on our nation’s health, on our nation’s economy, on our global security.”

Now, Mr. Kennedy, a vocal skeptic of vaccines, is in a position to have significant influence, and over a broad range of policy. Mr. Trump’s sweeping electoral victory, with Mr. Kennedy at his side, is — in the eyes of their supporters — not only a mandate but also a repudiation of the public health establishment that has long kept Mr. Kennedy at bay.

Mr. Kennedy’s worldview is embodied in two of his most frequent refrains: “There is nothing more profitable for much of the health care system than a sick child” and “Public health agencies have become sock puppets for the industries they are supposed to regulate.”

Idaho Health Board First in U.S. to Defy CDC and FDA by Removing COVID Vaccines From Clinics

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., (pictured right). To view the original full length publication, click here.

Idaho’s Southwest District Health will no longer offer COVID-19 vaccines after its board voted 4-3 last week to pull the shots from the 30 locations where it provides healthcare services.

“It’s the first health agency in America to do that,” Laura Demaray, a Southwest Idaho resident and nurse who attended the Oct. 22 vote, told The Defender. 

Miste Karlfeldt, executive director of Health Freedom Idaho, agreed that the board’s vote is historic. “It’s thrilling,” she told The Defender.

The board’s vote came after it received about 300 public comments urging the district, which encompasses six counties, to stop promoting the shots. 

Opinion: Michigan Right-to-Die Legislation Must Consider Concerns of African Americans

In the 1990s, Royal Oak’s Dr. Jack Kevorkian put a national spotlight on the debate over the right of terminally ill patients to die with the aid of a physician. As Democrats reclaim their majority in the state Legislature, Michigan may be at the epicenter of this conversation again.

Last fall, a group of Democrats introduced the Michigan Death With Dignity Act, which would legalize physician-assisted dying, also known as medical aid in dying [, assisted suicide and euthanasia]. Patients with a terminal condition, expected to die within six months, would be able to request that a participating doctor write them a prescription for drugs that, when self-administered and ingested, would allow the patient to die on the date of their choosing.

Terri Laws [pictured here] is an associate professor of African and African American studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Many Michiganders will see this legislation as reasonable and compassionate. To others, however, often people of color, this legislation is more complicated. Some fear doctors and insurance companies may deny them lifesaving treatments and steer them toward assisted suicide instead. Others are concerned that legalization will normalize this type of death as the “correct” way to approach the end of life, when their cultural beliefs and practices tell them otherwise. Central to these views are issues around equitable access to care — and of trust. 

NYC Mayor Indicted After Breaking with Biden Regime on Illegal Aliens

"Adams’ real crime was telling the truth about the open border crisis."

By Daniel Greenfield (original publication 09/26/24).

https://jihadwatch.org/2024/09/nyc-mayor-indicted-after-breaking-with-biden-regime-on-illegal-aliens

When Mayor Eric Adams first took office, I described him as a corrupt clown and the best of a very bad lot of candidates and predicted he would end up indicted. I’m not surprised that he was indicted, but the issue wasn’t corruption. Adams is no more corrupt than the average New York City, Chicago, Detroit, LA, SF, or big city Dem pol, which is to say his kind of corruption is business as usual and there was something else that triggered this.

Adams used to be a Biden proxy. The Biden admin liked the idea of a black big city mayor until Adams broke with it over the open borders illegal alien invasion. New York City was and is overwhelmed by the invaders. Facing staggering expenses and chaos, Adams initially followed the party line and blamed Texas and Florida for busing migrants, but then broke with the White House and blamed the Biden administration.

The Road We Should Not Travel

By Allen West (pictured here).

The month of September is quite important for those who comprehend what it means to live free in a Constitutional Republic. First of all, it is the month that we celebrate our rule of law — the United States Constitution. Well, some do. It is still amazing to me that we had a presidential debate in the National Constitution Center, and not a mention was made of, or was there any reference to, the Constitution. Then, the following week, it was the 237th anniversary of our US Constitution. The day, and truly the week, went by without any grand fanfare. Is it any wonder that our Country is in such turmoil and why we have a particular philosophy of governance that prefers the three branches of rule over the three branches of government as prescribed in the Constitution?

Argentinian President Javier Milei Accuses UN of Human Rights Hypocrisies

Argentinian President Javier Milei [pictured right], in his first U.N. speech, accused the international organization of human rights hypocrisies and enabling authoritarian regimes. 

“I’m here to warn you that we are at the end of a cycle, the collectivism and moral posturing of the woke agenda have collided with reality,” Milei told the United Nations on Sept. 24 in New York City.

Milei specifically criticized the Human Rights Council for granting membership to countries such as Cuba and Venezuela, both of which he said have poor human rights records....

Federal Judge Sets Trial Date in Ashli Babbitt Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Judicial Watch announced today [09/23/24] that, following a hearing on September 20, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia scheduled a trial date of July 20, 2026, for the $30 million wrongful death suit filed on behalf of the estate and the family of Ashli Babbitt [Babbitt pictured right]. 

[Babbitt] was shot and killed in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.  

Discovery in the lawsuit has also commenced as the Court continues to consider Ashli’s motion to retransfer the lawsuit to California where it was originally filed earlier this year.

8 Democrats Join Republicans in House Resolution to Overturn Federal Electric Vehicle Rule

By Samantha Flom, 9/20/2024, Updated: 09/21/24

The U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 20 voted to overturn a Biden administration rule that sets tougher emissions standards for car manufacturers.

The joint resolution that passed in a 215–191 vote—with eight Democrats in support and one Republican in opposition—would nullify the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new restrictions on emissions from cars, light trucks, pick-ups, and vans for model years 2027 to 2032.

Although the rule does not explicitly impose an electric vehicle (EV) mandate, it is expected to force manufacturers to electrify more of their fleets to comply. 

The resolution passed with the support of Democrat Reps. Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Texas, Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, and Mary Sattler Peltola of Alaska.

One Republican, Rep. Brian Fitzgerald (R-Pa.), voted against the measure.