16 facts about COVID-19
Source Children’s Defense Fund
16 Facts -16 Scientific studies, new data, expert advice from 600 doctors on #COVID19, the #lockdown, #masks, and #socialdistancing. This incredible compendium was just published by The Children’s Health Defense under the title “LOCKDOWN LUNACY: The Thinking Person’s Guide”
Every fact is supported by a scientific study, and data analysis.
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Fact #1: The Infection Fatality Rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.07-0.20%, in line with seasonal flu
Fact #2: The risk of dying from COVID-19 is much higher than the average IFR for older people and those with co-morbidities, and much lower than the average IFR for younger healthy people, and nearing zero for children
Fact #3: People infected with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic (which is most people) do NOT spread COVID-19
Fact #4: Emerging science shows no spread of COVID-19 in the community (shopping, restaurants, barbers, etc.)
Fact #5: Published science shows COVID-19 is NOT spread outdoors
Fact #6: Science shows masks are ineffective to halt the spread of COVID-19, and The WHO recommends they should only be worn by healthy people if treating or living with someone with a COVID-19 infection
Fact #7: There’s no science to support the magic of a six-foot barrier.
Follow the link read compiled scientific data and expert commentary by doctors, epidemiologists, inmuologists, mathematicians, and more experts in related fields.
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Politicians are being courted by scientists
Many experts in the field of microbiology and pulmonary and infectious diseases are questioning the government’s approach to the COVI-19D pandemic.
Dr Wolfgang Wodarg is a German physician specialising in Pulmonology, politician, and former chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Back in 2009, I called for an inquiry into alleged conflicts of interest surrounding the EU response to the Swine Flu pandemic.
“Politicians are being courted by scientists…scientists who want to be important to get money for their institutions. Scientists who just swim along in the mainstream and want their part of it […] And what is missing right now is a rational way of looking at things.
We should be asking questions like “How did you find out this virus was dangerous?”, “How was it before?”, “Didn’t we have the same thing last year?”, “Is it even something new?”
That’s missing.
Dr Sucharit Bhakdi demystifies the hype around the global hysteria of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bhakdi, the former head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, at Johannes Gutenburg University in Mainz, Germany, and one of the most cited researchers in the field of microbiology speaks about the coronavirus hype.
Bhakdi is the recipient of many awards in the field of microbiology and is an authority in the field.
In his opinion, the governments lockdown are shortening the life of million of people specially elderly people, who need to go to the theater, dance, walk at the park, in other words they need entertainment and peace of mind to live longer.
He does not dismiss the potential risk of the COVID-19, but at the same time he stressed that “elderly and people with underlying lung and heart condition are more susceptible, and not the rest of the population.
The misinformation put out there, with the number of deaths in countries most affected, is creating an unnecessary fear.
China and Italy he said, two countries with high volumes of pollution, which fact is not taken in consideration to rule the cause of death—People that live in polluted areas already have susceptible lungs and compromised upper respiratory system.
Saying that the cause of death is only due to COVID-19 is false and the numbers misleading.
The elderly are more affected, but they are at risk with any type of coronavirus.
The horrifying impact in the world economy threatened the existence of countless people, he said. “
“These extreme measures [lockdown and self quarantine] are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide because of nothing but a spook,” he said
According to the American Psychology Association, stress lowers your natural defenses, “when we’re stressed, the immune system’s ability to fight off antigens is reduced.”
Stay calm and cover your mouth when you cough and sneeze. These measures should be normally followed when affected by any type of viral or bacterial infection, such as flu or influenza.
Explosive information about #COVI19.
Published on Jun 16, 2020
Exclusive information. Multiple highly regarded scientists who have studied C0R0NAVlRUS say that the VlRUS has been manipulated in labs to better attach to human cells. Turns out, research on that very thing was conducted here in the United States until the research was banned in 2013. In 2014, the research appears to have resumed through funding to several labs in China through payments to Eco Healt.
JudyMikovits has been saying the same. She also said, that for a virus to naturally evolve to the current SARS-CoV-2, it would take 800 years. She has been censored by the YouTube, Google and Facebook.
The selective virus
Thanks to Louisa Livingstone, she allowed me to share her text but not the name for obvious reasons.
I’m ready to fight this tooth and nail. I’m so tired of parents putting their fear onto the kids. The kids are only scared because of the parents.
Let me put this into perspective for you… I’m a police officer in London, we have briefing in a room with 30 other officers, we share a locker room (Male and female), we all walk around the same base swapping over from team to team at handover so sometimes you can mix with 60+ people when shift change over happens not to mention sharing the same vehicles, the same radio batteries, the same doors, computers etc. We then do it all again at the end of our shifts, so again, mixing with a further 30+ people sharing everything, etc.
Plus, then you have the extra officers who have been drafted in from their regular duties to help out and who you don’t mix with on a usual shift, etc. Not to mention the people we have to deal with on the streets and the other officers we meet out and about. And when we are taken for aid (duties up town in London) we then share a carrier with sometimes 10 other officers who you don’t normally work with, or have never worked with and could be from another borough.
BUT… only 2 people have had it (confirmed). Surely the police service should have come down with COVID19 now? We got given no PPE except gloves and hand sanitizer (with no alcohol – we had to provide alcohol gel), and then eventually we got given masks if we wanted them.
I ended up walking through the COVID A&E department with no mask because we were searching for a high-risk missing person!
And one final thing. I have asthma… and the inhalers I’m on make me “high risk”. I’ve been working throughout. Not once have I shielded. I mean I’m pretty sure I had it in December, but I can’t prove that.
So why has this virus not attacked me? Are the police completely immune? Does our job make us immune? If the police can still work with no changes throughout the pandemic, then surely the teachers can? Surely kids can go back to school with no changes?”
Dr Scott Atlas
Dr. Scott Atlas is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, an accomplished physician, and a scholar of public health. For several weeks, Dr. Atlas has been making the case in print and in other media that we as a society have overreacted in imposing draconian restrictions on movement, gatherings, schools, sports, and other activities.
He is not a COVID-19 denier—he believes the virus is a real threat and should be managed as such. But, as Dr. Atlas argues, there are some age groups and activities that are subject to very low risk. The one-size-fits-all approach we are currently using is overly authoritarian, inefficient, and not based in science.
Dr. Atlas’s prescription includes more protection for people in nursing homes, two weeks of strict self-isolation for those with mild symptoms, and most importantly, the opening of all K–12 schools. The latter recommendation is vital for restarting and maintaining the economy so that parents are not housebound trying to work and educate their children. Dr. Atlas is also adamant that an economic shutdown, and all of the attendant issues that go along with it, is a terrible solution—the cure is worse than the disease. Finally, Dr. Atlas reveals some steps he’s taken in his own life to try to get things back to normal.
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The misconception of GMO is that solve the hunger problem
By Marivel Guzman
Published on Mar 11, 2018
Truth to be told is that hunger is same as it was in 1986, said Zack Bush.
According to USDA’s Economic Research Service 30 to 40 percent of the food in US is wasted. That amounts to more than 20 pounds of food per person wasted each month.
An estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted globally each year, one third of all food produced for human consumption
according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
According to UNICEF 15,000 children under 5 die every day due to starvation and malnourishment.
“Zach Bush, MD is a triple board certified physician specializing in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, as well as in Hospice and Palliative care. The director of M Clinic in Virginia, Dr. Bush has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the areas of infectious disease, endocrinology, and cancer. This is a mind-blowing conversation that explores new insights into the mechanisms behind human health and longevity. It’s about the massive and misunderstood impact of industrial farming, chemical pesticides, the pharmaceutical industry and even errant Western medical practices have on both human and planetary health. It’s a conversation about the difference between the science of disease and the science of health. It’s about the microbiome as a critical predictor of and protector against illness. And it’s an exploration of autism, epigenetics and the mechanics of intercellular communication.. Enjoy! ✌🏼🌱” – Rich
The reall killer of humanity is and always has been starvation.
By Marivel Guzman
Already kills 15,000 children under five, UNICEF says Now Oxfam warns COVID-19 pandemic vould push 122 million to brink of starvation.
The global charity says this could result in 12,000 people dying per day by the end of the year due to COVID-19-linked hunger. Oxfam America President Abby Maxman said,
“COVID-19 is the last straw for millions of people already struggling with the impacts of conflict, climate change, inequality and a broken food system that has impoverished millions of food producers and workers.”
FRANKENSKIES FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
By Marivel Guzman
Poison in the skies is a crime against humanity, against fauna, flora and overall an ecological catastrophe.
Frankenskies was released on June 20, 2017 in yourtube. The documentary is a compilation of government projects and private
enterprises using clouds seedings.
This film gives you the story of chemtrails, which have been used since the late 40s. Chemtrails are man-made clouds part of the geo engeenering program to control the weather. Also, is used a weather modification weapon able to cause droughts, huracans floods and other weather anomalies.
Support the film, watch it, digest its content and share it. Then think flu vaccine, virus(s) diseases outbreaks. Monsanto, war industrial complex and pharmaceutical industry.
Everything is possible, nothing should be left out of the conversation.
One note to clarify. Youtube has a note under the video about contrails, but this documentary is about chemtrails, a two completely different phenomenon(s), contrail is a natural condecoración, chemtrail is a chemical agent spread in the skies.
https://vimeo.com/222928194?ref=em-share
Chemtrails is not the same as contrails
COVID-19 scenario written by Rockefeller Foundation in 2010.
Watch this 2014:interview with investigative journalist Harry Vox.
Lockdown, masks, quarantine, curfews, global industry disruption, flights disruption and praise of authoritarian governments.
If after watching these 12 minutes, you still agree with the present scenario of lockdowns and masks, then your critical thinking is lockdown by fear.
Manipulation of Data
By Marivel Guzman
Note how the CDC adjusted the percentage markers for the graphic of inpatient bed occupancy.
On July 03, at 3:15 pm, I downloaded the graphic for intpacient bed occupancy by states from the CDC website.
At 3:15 pm on a Thursday, the markers were: 0 to 4.9 %, 5 to 9.9 %, 10 to 14.9 %, 15 to 19.99 %, 20 to 24.9 %, 25 or more %.
Today after that data was published, the CDC changed the markers to make the inpatient bed occupancy more dramatic. Note, that the date still reads July 03.
The more purple the states look in the graphic, the more fear they send.
New markers are: 0 to 39.9 %, 40 to 49.9 %, 50 to 59.9%, 60 to 69.9 %, 70 or more %.
Arizona went from 25 percent occupancy to 70 or more.
As new testing are being conducted nationwide, more SARS-CoV-2 cases are shown positive, but the sick people with COVID-19 declined dramatically, and consequently the death rate took its low place in the statistics models, if they are honestly reporting the data at hand.
The CDC changed the markers. For the untrained eyes like majority of Facebook users, who use Facebook as a medium for information, the change goes unnoticed. They see the colored graphic and their hormone levels of fear goes hotwire.
Mainstream media changed their headlines to cases. They left the “deaths” numbers behind, because they are not impactfull enough to bring readers to their digital outlets.
Why does the CDC insist in spreading fear?
The two graphics attached can explain why the states in the US now show dramatic purple color.
Having 0 to 39.9 percent as the lowest marker, it is in itself very misleading. If we read the data provided by the CDC, a state with 1000 beds capacity can have from zero to 49.9 percent (New altered data, as previously state from 0 to 4.9 percent.) These numbers can be taken as zero patients, or 499 patients.
I did a quatitative analysis based for Arizona, the state with more inpatient COVID-19 occupied beds. has 16,000 licensed inpatient hospital beds. That is only 1.9 per every 1000 patients. According to the US Census Bureau, Arizona population is
7.279 million (2019. )
Going back to the graphics above. On July 03, before the markers were changed, Arizona could have had from zero to 784 in COVID-19 patients. The data is so vague, that you dont get a clear picture.
Now, after the CDC changed the parameters to assest the inpatient bed occupancy. The new numbers changed from zero to 11,200 patients.
Did you see how numbers are manipulated to keep the hype.
Happy 4th of July to all my fellow Americans.
You wonder why cancer is prevalent in the world
By Marivel Guzman
July 08
Specially pediatric cancer. Scientists please double check the time when vaccines started to be mandatory in children.
An oncogene is a gene that has the potential to cause cancer. Oncogenes are important ingredients in vaccines. In some cases cell lines that are used in the production of vaccines “might” be tumorigenic, that is, they form tumors when injected into rodents. “Investigating Viruses in Cells Used to Make Vaccines; and Evaluating the Potential Threat Posed by Transmission of Viruses to humans, ” FDA(dot) gov
In tumor cells, these genes are often mutated or expressed at high levels. Most normal cells will undergo a programmed form of rapid cell death apoptosis when critical functions are altered and malfunctioning. Activated oncogenes can cause those cells designated for apoptosis to survive and proliferate instead.
After years on cancer research and billions of dollars invested in the cancer industry scientists still cannot find the cause of cancer. They need to study the reason why cancer skyrocket after vaccines started being an integral part of humans via mandatory decrees.
Yes, there are other many causes for cancer, pesticides like Roundup, carcinogens agents in gasoline fumes,
even unattended contaminants used to desinfect our water like trihalomethanes, (formed when chlorine or bromine interacts with the natural organic materials found in water.) “Disinfection By-Products (Trihalomethanes)” CDC(dot)gov
Even bleached products like your bleached flour, rice, salt.
The difference in many products in the market including gasoline is that they are not forced “into” you body like vaccines are.
There was a time in history when vaccines and medicine were introduced in society, they were given as a gift-Polio and Insuline’s patents sold for one dollar to universities by their inventors to serve a social cause. But those times are gone, universities betrayed those inventors and sold them [patents] to merchants, who converted them into a trade commodity.
And people will rgue that money is necessary for the production of vaccines. Yes, that is indeed, but produced under a social medicine model where governments take in consideration the use of safe vaccines vs mass produced vaccine that uses short cuts that undermine the long term individual’s wellbeing.
The health of the population is a government duty, it shouldn’t be put in the hands of merchants.
If wars can be 100 percent subsidized by governments, so health can be.
Plandemic is real.
The WHO/UN new global government are running a live exercise with the participation of 196 countries, said a document published by WHO in 2005 and revised on 2019.
The information will leave you stone cold.
There isn’t a conspiracy, just go to the WHO links provided under the video.
A live exercise planned on 2005, where all countries committed to participate.
“They will released a virus that attacks the respiratory system, to test the preparedness of all countries,” says the WHO document.
Pompeo mentioned this few months ago and he was ignored by mainstream media.
Dr Faucci pandemia
Dr Fauci has been in the same job for almost 40 years.
I wonder, what has he been doing all these years?
He even published a “study on the 1918 Spanish flu Pandemic,” (2007) where he said, 100 years later we are prepared for a Pandemic influenza. Are we prepared? Were we prepared for COVID-19? After all those billions of dollars “invested” in research by his office.
2019 came, and here he is again at square one, with so many “I don’t know,” “We don’t know,” and many misleading statements. Some so basic as masks.
And on 2008,he published another paper after disecting preserved tissues from soldiers who died during the 1918-19 Spanish Flu.
Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic, (2008)
“Most of the deaths were caused by a secondary bacterial pulmonary infection,” the study concluded. Maybe that’s why, President Trump announced the miracle cure of the anti-viral Hydroxychloroquine and anti-bacterial Azitromycim combo?
Which by the way, Fauci stopped the Hydroxychloroquine trial,
“because it was causing side effects,” really Dr Fauci? Please name a drug without side effects. Hydroxychloroquine has been used for 60 years to treat Malaria, and out of the sudden he stopped an important trial because “side effects.”
I wonder how much of a kickback he got from Gilad Sciences Remdesevir manufacturer?
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Dr. Anthony Fauci has been wrong on the coronavirus pandemic — Every step of the way!”
Here is a list of several errors, contradictory statements and dangerous gaffes by NIAID Director Dr. Tony Fauci:
The media war against Hydroxychloroquine.
By Marivel Guzman
Hydroxychloroquine is safe and cheap treatment for COVID-19 patients. The anti-malaria drug has been safely used for 60 years.
Countries that used Hydroxychloroquine from the start of the COVID-19 epidemic ranked lowest in deaths.
India population
1,319,484,175, death ratio to population .000042
Indonesia population
367,367,729 death ratio to
Population. . 000015
Pakistan pooulation
213,249,791 death ratio to population . 000028
Bangladesh population
163,684,837 death ratio to population . 000024
Mexico has almost double the population of Italy and France, and the COVID-19 death rate is almost identical.
The difference in low mortality in Mexico was the use of Hydroxychloroquine.
Mexico population 128,863,734 death ratio to population. .00046 %
France population 65,213,511 death ratio to population. .00042
Italy population
61,388,126 death ratio to population. .00046
Countries that didn’t use, stopped, or started the use later on of the drug Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients rank higher in death ratio to population.
United States population
328,277,386 death ratio to population. . 054
Brazil population
295,282,743 death ratio to population. . 055
Strangely enough, both of the presidents of these countries, Donald Trump and Bolsonaro advocated for the use of Hydroxychloroquine, but their health advisors negligently spoked against its use. The result: higher unnecessary deaths in both countries.
Three countries are in a special category: China, Japan and South Korea
The use of Eastern Medicine combined with Chloroquine proved their success with the low death ratio to population.
The numbers of infections with SARS-CoV-2 is not as important as the actual deaths of COVID-19.
COVI19 #Hydroxychloroquine
SARSCoV2
Pandemia
The big scare
The big scare!
By Marivel Guzman
The New York Times latest numbers on COVID-19 deaths, “Tracking the Coronavirus,” leave you alarmed by the numbes and selective wording they used.
If you analyze the real data; death ratio to population, and death ratio to cases; the numbers are so minuscule that the largest number is . 03 in Mississipi ratio to cases, and ratio to population .0008, and the highest ratio to population is Texas with O4, but ratio to cases .02.
These numbers comparable to deaths for other transmitable diseases, or death by other causes, which have very high mortality in US and in the world; like Coronary Artery Disease, which just in US alone kills more than 657,000 per year average.
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causing bacteria of Tuberculosis is more contagious than SARS-CoV-2, according to the CDC, 13- million Americans are infected with latent tuberculosis, which treatments were halted due to the diversion of funds and medical attention taken away by lockdowns and closure of clinics and hospitals across US and worldwide.
SARS-CoV-2 is not deadlier than other diseases, but got the exaggerated media attention, pushed by pharmaceutical and vaccines manufacturers, who are set to make billions in profits.
These are the US numbers, which according to the New York Times are state hotbed spots for COVID-19, which in itself is misleading. It should be called SARS-CoV-2 cases, not COVID-19, because not all the people infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop COVID-19.
Source of cases and death numbers: the New York Times.
Data analysis by Marivel Guzman.
Texas population 29,472,300
SARS-CoV-2 cases 593,779
total deaths 11,486
ratio to population.. 04
ratio to cases . 02
Idaho population
234,576, SARS-CoV-2 cases: 29,510, total deaths 395: ratio to population . 0013, ratio to cases. . 011
Arkansas population
3,039,000, SARS-CoV-2 cases 55,652, total deaths 663
ratio to population . 00022
ratio to cases. . 011
Nevada population
3,139,660, SARS-CoV-2 cases
64,573, total deaths 1,185
ratio to population . 00038
ratio to cases. . 02
Iowa population
3,179,850,SARS-CoV-2 cases
55,496, total deaths 1,030
ratio to population. . 00032
ratio to cases . 02
Alabama population
4,908,620, SARS-CoV-2 cases 113,632, total deaths 1,196
ratio to population . 00024
ratio to cases . 02
Missouri population
6,169,270, SARS-CoV-2 cases
74,157, total deaths 1,511
ratio to population . 00024
ratio to cases . 02
North Dakota population
761,723, SARS-CoV-2 cases
9,498, total deaths 136
ratio to population .00018
ratio to cases. . 01
Georgia population
10,627,767,SARS-CoV-2 cases 233,169,total deaths
4889.
ratio to population . 0005
ratio to cases . 02
Florida population
21,646,155, SARS-CoV-2 cases 597,589, total deaths 10,273
ratio to population . 00050
ratio to cases .02
Tennessee population
6, 897,580, SARS-CoV-2 cases 1367,932, total deaths
1,528
ratio to population . 00022
ratio to cases. . 011
Mississippi population
2,989,260, SARS-CoV-2 cases
77,268, total deaths 2,237
ratio to population. . 0008
California population
39,937,500, SARS-CoV-2 638,831, total deaths 11,523
ratio to population. . 00029
ratio to cases. . 02
US population (Census update 2020 approx)
331,002,651, SARS-CoV-2 cases. 5,600,000, total deaths
179,695
ratio to population .00054
ratio to cases . 031
As more people get tested, the ratio to cases number gets smaller, and death toll data shows is going down, also the ratio to population and ratio to cases consequently will get smaller.
This trend is true for all countries. US is leading the charts in number of deaths for two reason: it is a big country, and haven’t used Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.
The problem I see in US, is not that the population didn’t used masks, or didn’t follow “social distancing guidelines,” but the problem was not to allowing doctors to use Hydroxychloroquine as a prevention, and as treatment for COVID-19, and neglecting its elderly population.
The previous data analysis I generated showed, that countries that used Hydroxychloroquine were able to keep the death rate at bay.
Not all SARS-CoV-2 infected persons (cases) develop COVID-19. So, don’t get into panic because you see mainstream media throwing big numbers of cases in their headlines. Study the data and use some critical thinking before you share alarming “news.”
Remember herd inmunity is a good thing. More people get infected with SARS-CoV-2 and ride the virus cold death, more protected is a community.
Check the numbers, very small percentage of the population got seriously ill, or unfortunately passed away. Majority, almost 99.98 percent of the cases recorded got the virus with mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.
UPDATE: Aug. 23, at 22:15
A clarification for the use of this chart to explain herd inmunity.
I’m personally advocating for natural herd inmunity, not vaccines. The data shown in some studies supports the argument, that the majority of the population who got infected by SARS-CoV-2 are naturally inmunized against COVID-19.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC), on Aug. 14, update guidelines says, “people who got infected by SARS-CoV-2 and recovered don’t need to be tested again at least for three months.” and clarified, that natural inmunuzation doesn’t means that the person cannot get infected again. But also imply, that getting infected is not the same as getting sick.
How other way can be explained, that the death ratio to cases’s numbers are dropping in the charts.
(photo credit: Wikimedia)
Dr DoloresCahill – Protest Against Oppressive Government Restrictions and Mandates in Dublin
DUBLIN
#DrDoloresCahill – Protest Against Oppressive Government Restrictions and Mandates in Dublin
Published on Aug 23, 2020
Thousands of people have taken part in a peaceful protest ‘Time For Change’ at the Custom House in Dublin city centre Against Oppressive Government Restrictions and Mandates. This is the second such rally in Dublin since the beginning of the lockdown in Ireland. The members of the public assembled at the Custom House protested against increasing government mandates, lack of transparency and proportionality of decisions and lack of accountability shown by the government officials and advisors.
Professor Dolores Cahill has a degree in molecular genetics, her PhD is in immunology. She was part of a team of scientists making antibodies libraries using to improve the outcomes in cancer. She spent eight years in the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, where she was in charged of a team of researchers and developed the technology that could look the specificity of antibodies and different diagnostic assays to diagnose autoimmune diseases.
And, for example, with virus patients look at whether they were exposed to a virus or not. Her team back in the 90s looked at published antibodies and found that a lot of what was published was not necessarily correct. They were involved in correcting published research studies.
She is recipient to awards from the German Minister for science. Dr Hill has been in the German Advisory Science Council, for more than 20 years, whose role is to advise for scientific merit before funding agencies, also belongs to the Strategy for Science Technology and Innovation in Ireland. She was nominated to represent Ireland on the Scientific Committee for the Innovative Medicines Initiative in the European Union and since 2016 became vice chair.
She was also involved in developing the meningitis B vaccine for Africa. She worked in a class 4 bio lab (bio hazard lab top level)
She has been working with “a doctor” who is advising the White House particularly on protocols for prevention and treatment such as hydroxychloroquine.
Uganda Red Cross cured Malaria with MMS in 24 hours.
Uganda Red Cross cured Malaria with MMS in 24 hours.
On 2012, The Uganda Red Crescent, Red Cross International, the Water Reference Agency, and Leo Koehof, Jim Humble’s associate were involved in a clinical trial with MMS (Sodium Chloride) and 154 patients were treated and cured in 24 hours, but one patient was cured in 48 hours.
The Red Cross refused to publish the results and denied the tests ever took place.
This video is the proof the tests were performed and the patients were cured.
The rest is hysteria and implanted fear
The rest is hysteria and “implanted fear.”
The strategy to let the “SARS-CoV-2,” to run free isn’t really new. The fact of this pseudo pandemic is that most of the 7.8 billion people in planet earth have been living an almost normal life.
Almost half of the population never stopped their routine of surviving. The other half, the ” essential” workers never stopped working. And “essential” consumers never stopped going out to buy food and services.
In other words, the SARS-CoV-2 has been widely running into the population of the world for 10 months (or more) and if scientists and politicians were honest they will tell “you” the truth, that COVID-19 only affects, affected, and will affect a tiny tiny percentage of the population, as the real numbers show. And unfortunately that tiny percentage are gone already. The elderly and the sick were killed. Killed by neglect, killed by the lack of medical services, killed by doctors’s cowardice to stand against politicians. Those doctors who didn’t follow the Hipocrates oath are cowards and murderers.
Hospitals are and always been places where people are healed , but also, hospitals are places where people die everyday. They die by the thousands, they always have. Why now their deaths are subject of countless articles?
Doctors and nurses are not heroes, they are just workers, they chose that profession. The slogan, that they are “the frontine workers,” it is a marketing campaign to sell you the pandemia.
Besides that not all doctors and nurses work with COVID-19 patients. Do they?
When there is a train crash in a community, all local hospitals are overwhelmed. That fact does not make doctors and nurses heroes. Everyone of them does their job, they work faster, yes, but they are no heroes. They have two hands and a brain. Doctors and nurses don’t leave a patient half open during a surgery, only because there are more patients to intervene. The same with COVID-19 patients, doctors and nurses work at the best of their abilities.
Now, the doctors and nurses that died, they knew they were dealing with a “virus, ” a new respiratory virus. If they were old, overweight, with coronary diseases, diabetic, why did they stay? They wanted to be heroes? Bullshit, they neglected their duty and expose themselves. A soldier does not go to war without a weapon. That is suicide.
Herd inmunity is a natural process, and if you are a believer of any faith, you should believe that herd inmunity is God’s vaccine. Christians, Catholics and others embrace your faith and God’s designs.
For you Muslims, If Islam is the fast growing religion with billions, then Muslims should put the faith in Allah and stop being cowards. Be the example, show the way. Stop “their” Truman Show. Stop Melinda Gates Foundation, UN one world order, stop the mad scientist death in their tracks, rebel against the transgressors.
Do not allow “A brave New World,” book to be our reality
Take back your lives and spread truth. If Allah want us dead, we will die
On “The flu vaccine,” It is not a vaccine. Why? A vaccine grants you inmunity, if you take a shot every year, it means the shot you are getting is not a vaccine. It is a yearly doses of viruses. And again, isn’t Allah all knowing and mighty? Could you hide from Allah behind a vaccine, or a mask? when Allah calls you, means is your time to go.
Remember this, media is a lucrative business. More alarming the news are, the more audience they attract, and more paid advertisements they generate. Because people like drama. People love sensationalism.
Turn the news off and “game over.” Turn pandemia off.
Louisa Livingstone, Gail Baker, Rosa Tomsic, Mike Chickey, Fred Burks Zafar Khan,
Laundromat Film
I just finished watching ‘The Laundromat” film.
This movie could be very well used for the defense of Julian Assange, publisher of WikiLeaks, which revealed “The Panama Papers.”
“The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney-client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities” WikiLeaks
This comedy film is based on the book “Secrecy World” by Jake Bernstein, which based on the story of
Mossack and Fonseca, who built a money making machine with more than 210,000 anonymous companies, trusts, and foundations.
“Mossack and Fonseca Law firm we’re selling secrecy, and products that offered limited economic nourishment while clogging the world’s financial arteries with tax evasion and criminality.” Excerpt from America Empire Project by Jake Bernstein.
Political campaign finance laws, Tax Laws, money laundering and other issues exposed in the film are fair conversations to ask to the 2020 US Presidential candidates, and to any house member due for reelection.
ThePanamaPapers #Corruption #EchelonOfPower #DelawareCorporations
WikiLeaks #JulianAssange #FreeJulianAssange https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/netflix-the-laundromat-lawsuit-1202182350/
In other news
Originally published on July 14, 2020
By Marivel Guzman
In other news; life goes on, and love is still the only emotion that bind us together in this dreadful Truman Show of COVID-19.
Masks for sale in every online store, buys yours “now,” lyson declared to kill SARS-CoV-2, toilet paper “shortages fill the shelves in a store near you” ventilators are trendy and killing, webinars online “subscribe,” now, vaccines manufacturers running for “fast trials,” gif(s) and avatars inundate facebooks, right before US elections, and more products and services coming soon to your smartphone and computer screen.
The Truman Show is a comedy-melodrama film. (1998.) Truman lives in a 24/7 virtual marketplace TV set, where everyone in the village is a salesperson actor advertising a product. Truman is the only person, who doesn’t know he lives inside a bubble.
His wife advertvise house products, his neighboors advertise the latest car model. His co-workers advertise office supplies.
Short story, when Truman reliazed the lie he has been inadvertently living in, he brakes free and exit the bubble and the virtual marketplace is over.
Wake up!
life #love #TrumanShow #COVI19 #MarketPlace #LiesDeception #SafetyMarketPlace
Dolores Cahill censored, big time
Update on January 20, 2020
The video was censored by the Daily Mail and Youtube. I summarized the interview, when I get my hands on the video.
This one hour interview will save your life from fear and from the COVID-19. Prof. Dolores Cahill advised Dr Fauci and other world leaders for placing protocols, apparently they didn’t listen. She calls for an inquiry for media and politicians who are spreading propaganda and fear instead to advicing the people to take vitamin C, D and zinc to bust the Inmune system. And if infected to take a ten cent pill of Hydroxychloroquine which is proven to cure coronavirus.
She send a message to politicians to stop the farse and lift the lockdown.
“On masks, if people have the symptoms you should wear a mask, but you are healthy, you shouldn’t wear a mask. What a mask does, is doing entirely the wrong thing. It actually reduces the oxygen supply to you. So actually everybody has latent viruses within their body, and because you are under oxygen stress, it allows viruses which were latent (sleeping/inactive) to reactivate, ” because the use of mask weaken the Inmune system.
The first ten minutes are her credentials.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tusu3
A Journal Entry on the Pandemic and the Public Health Narrative
By Marivel Guzman
Originally published May 02, 2020
The world shifted on March 11, 2020—the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. From that point on, everything changed. The “death toll” became the news.
I still have strong reservations about the way lockdowns were implemented. As someone with a background in nursing, I struggle to accept mass lockdowns as a viable measure to stop the spread of infection. There is a fundamental difference between being infected and being sick. Never in the history of outbreaks have healthy populations been quarantined alongside the infected. Quarantine has always been a targeted public health measure—until now.
I read scientific journals regularly. I review peer-reviewed studies and stay alert to updates from researchers in epidemiology, microbiology and infectious diseases from around the world. This has exposed me to a wide range of conflicting views, especially concerning the CDC’s revised death certificate guidelines.
As a small business owner who supervises cleaning crews, I’ve entered more than 60 homes throughout Southern cities. I ask questions, observe conditions and engage with people. In all that time, I have yet to meet a single person who is ill—or who personally knows someone who is. At least not in the communities where I’ve worked.
I also traveled extensively during the height of the pandemic. I flew internationally and domestically, crossed borders, and moved freely between states and countries. I visited three states in Mexico, spent time in France and Amsterdam, and traveled across a dozen states in India. During my visit to India, I stayed in two rural states where internet access was extremely limited—available in theory, but with no provider towers in the countryside. People in those areas had no idea that a virus was sweeping the globe. There were no masks, no lockdowns, no fear. Daily life continued uninterrupted, untouched by the panic that gripped other parts of the world.
In my daily visits to the post office to ship plants, I took the opportunity to speak with postal workers at the USPS business center at 3101 W. Sunflower Ave. in Santa Ana, Calif. In March and April 2020, none of the employees were wearing masks. Several told me they had been instructed to purchase their own, but masks were not available for sale anywhere. I contacted Evelina Ramirez, Corporate Communications Media Relations officer at USPS, with a formal inquiry regarding employee protection protocols, package handling, sick leave, and contingency planning.
In her written response, Ramirez stated that the Postal Service was “sharing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidance… to our employees via stand up talks, employee news articles, messages on bulletin boards, and internal messaging inside USPS workplaces.” She added that the service was not experiencing operational impacts at that time and was reviewing contingency plans should the need arise. Regarding imported goods, she cited the CDC’s guidance noting “very low risk” of surface transmission via packages and that “there have been no reported cases of COVID-19 in the United States associated with imported goods.”
Despite the lack of protective measures early on, postal workers told me that no one had called in sick during those first critical weeks. By late spring, masks became standard and plexiglass barriers were installed at customer counters.
As a freelance journalist, I’ve covered numerous public events: visits to supermarkets and hospitals, senior meal programs, food distributions for the homeless, mask giveaways and shelter operations. I’ve reported on the ground, face to face, without a mask. No one I’ve interviewed or lived with has fallen ill.
What I’m trying to say is this: life was still functioning before the pandemic was declared. Once it was, everything became filtered through a lens of fear and mortality.
Doctors and scientists who questioned the official narrative were dismissed, discredited or censored. Open discourse—essential in both science and journalism—was sacrificed. Censorship became normalized in the United States.
Take care of your elders
Take care of your elders. The falls and lack of love and kindness will kill them faster than a complicated flu, or COVID-19.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four Americans aged 65+ falls each year.
Every 11 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall; every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from a fall.
Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury and the most common cause of nonfatal trauma-related hospital admissions among older adults.
Falls result in more than 2.8 million injuries treated in emergency departments annually, including over 800,000 hospitalizations and more than 27,000 deaths.
If you are not allowed to visit your love ones in rest homes, per government directive, most likely they will die from depression.
If you are proven not to be infected with the COVID-19, you should have the right to visit your love ones. The total ban on visitations is cruel and extreme.
https://www.ncoa.org/news/resources-for-reporters/get-the-facts/falls-prevention-facts/
My other half – Akashma poetry
Updated June 18, 2020, at 01:30
My Other Half
Where were you love?
I knew you’d come!
I heard your little soft steps next to my bed,
I felt your fairy wings
dancing to the tune of my breathless hope
I sensed you getting ready for the dance of love. I saw you in the sparkles of the rain, I saw you halo curling in the mist.
I know was you who touched my shoulder in the night, right when I was feeling all broken down.
I knew you’d come, It is you
who saved me from the darkest dream.
Where were you love?
I smell the aroma of your shadow
breathing next to me.
I knew you’d be, it was you
courting my silhouette
inhaling every drop of my sleep.
Where were you love?
I needed your warm presence next to me,
I wanted to hear the whispers of your voice.
I missed your presence in my life.
I tried to forge in other hopes,
I tried to call in other names,
but love is not a costume dress that I can change.
Where are you love?
I need you tonight,
the piercing shout of my pain
will keep me awake if you don’t come,
your absence cut right through my soul.
Where are you love?
I need to embrace your name again,
I want to snuggle up
against your heart next to mine.
I know you come,
I know you miss my voice touching your ear.
I know your life is half without my touch,
I knew you’d come,
I’m feeling warm again tonight. ♥
Love is not love,
if it does not have its other half.
First Published on March 15, 2020, at 20:14
Marivel R Guzman © 2020
Marivel Guzman, is an American poet, and fiction writer. (photo and graphics by Marivel Guzman)
Real heroes, no media stars
Cheering won’t do!
These are the real environmental heroes, and not “heroes” that are pushed and aggrandize by the media. These forest protectors put their lives in the line for the environment. They know that keeping the forest safe means survival.
Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a 26-years-old indigenous Guajajara leader was killed on Friday in an Amazon rainforest ambush allegedly by loggers in the Araribóia Indigenous Reserve, one of the country’s most threatened indigenous territories, which is located in Brazil’s Maranhão state.
They protect their livelihood, the planet and the livelihood of future generations.
Media heroes backed up by the conglomerate media only make noise, and dilute into stardom the real stories that need to be told and supported.
I know that people get all excited when they hear Greta Thunberg shouting from a podium, but they don’t realize that this much exposure is only possible by the mainstream media, whose stockholders may be benefiting from the extraction of riches of those regions.
After so many stories written about the environment, everyone who has the internet should know by now, what he/she needs to do to minimize their impact on the earth.
A simple cutting on meat in our diets makes a different. Reusing water bottles, and grocery bags, walking instead of driving makes us better contributors to protect the earth
The simple steps we can take don’t need a massive advertisement campaign such as those staged by the man for Greta.
Most of the impact on the degradation of earth is the overproduction of “everything, ” and more than anything; wars—from the production of vehicles for the defense to weapons, ammunition, and missiles. Taking into consideration the use of oil used for the production of gadgets and the oil used to propel war.
“Indigenous Guajajara leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara was shot dead in an ambush by loggers in the Amazon. He was one of the “Guardians of the Forest,” a group of Guajajara indigenous people that risks their lives fighting illegal logging in the Araribóia indigenous reserve.” Mongabay New, Nov. 02, 2019
My library is a time machine
My library is a very impressive time machine treasure. My 1897 Collection of John L. Stoddard’s Lectures is full of fascinating photographs of fascinating places, forgotten events, and full of stupid statements.
I found the following statements describing two men in a photo on page 117, in Volume II, Constantinople Jerusalem Egypt.
“The two men who were grinding corn between flat stones looked more like anthropoid apes than human beings.”
In another paragraph, he described two other men he encountered in Jerusalem
“Two other characteristics specimens of humanity were lounging on the steps of the “Twelve Tribes Hotel, ‘”
“At one place in our walk about the Holy City we saw some wretched men and women crouching in the sun….They held out for our inspection fingerless hands and toeless feet…We started back, regarding them with mingled horror and compassion, for these knew must be the hideous lepers of Jerusalem.
Not far from the Jafa Gate, the hospital erected in 1867 for these pitiable creatures. They should be all secluded there; but liberty is still allowed them, and they often marry, this propagating the disease since this unfortunate evil is hereditary”
In the previous page, Stoddard acknowledged that “Physicians claim that leprosy is not infectious, ” and still, he writes his despicable opinion.
That statement reflects a deep degree of racism and disregard of human sentiment. His demeanor for other races is sickening and heartbreaking. How can a man who has traveled so much have not learned to embrace the richness of humanity?
According to Google, Wikipedia, Library of Congress, WorldCat libraries, and other researched sites, Stoddard is considered a writer.
Because of publications as such, I have made my duty to revise history. I research and highlight; the wrongs, the idiotic, stupid and racist statements I find.
Read the heading of the post to learn more about Stroddard vision of races.
Life magazine treasures: Palestine 1948
Deep cleaning my library! I found my old collection of LIFE magazines. The attached photos belong to March 1948 edition.
The small snap photo is the beginning of the Editorial piece.
“Since Britain issued the controversial Balfour Declaration……Of these about 1,700 fell in the 100 days after the “evil and unworkable “partition” decision was recommended by the U.N. General Assembly.”
Life Magazine editorial board was aware that the Balfour Declaration and the “evil partition” were to blame for the deaths already on record. Unfortunately, the massacres of Palestinians were omitted in this piece.
University of Central Arkansas, Political Sciences, British Palestine, 1917-1947 has the numbers as follows.
4177 Palestinian Jews
4657 Palestinian Arabs
216 British soldiers and British personal.
Of course Life numbers don’t reflect the real numbers. The Israeli historian Benny Morris put 12,000 Arab deaths only in the 1948 partition war. And even his numbers are below the numbers recorded by Palestinian historians.
I reserve for Palestinian historians a more deep and complete research for a different post.
I attach the link to the Arkansas University study. Gail Bakeraker
https://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/middle-eastnorth-africapersian-gulf-region/british-palestine-1917-1948/
Day of Global Non-violence
A message to Israel and to the United Nations.
On this day commemorating “The Day of Global Non-violence” learn from history — Apartheid is a way violence against the native population of Palestine.
Repression, oppression, and murder of non-violent protestors demanding human rights is a despicable type of violence.
Peace would only be achieved respecting the rights of the Palestinians.
It is time the UN enforce its own resolutions and stop entertaining the world with nonsense conferences, and non-binding resolutions.
All those “beautiful words” written for this article sound good on paper, but in reality, in all the history of this body, little has been done to stop the ethnic cleansing of the autochthonous people.
“On Wednesday, the global community marks the International Day of Non-Violence, which this year coincided with the 150th anniversary of the birth of the global peace icon who led India to independence, Mahatma Gandhi” UN press, Oct. 01,2919
FreePalestine.
Peace icon Mahatma Gandhi’s message of ‘mutual understanding, equality’ reverberates on Day of Non-Violence
https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1048362
Israel bullying the Palestinians
Israel again bullying the Palestinians. In its latest act of aggression, Israel denied permits for most of the Khadamat Rafat Gaza’s soccer club, to cross few miles to the other side of Palestine.
Khadamat Rafah was set to play Balata FC in the West Bank last Wednesday.
According to Haaretz Jerusamem District Judge Moshe Sobel accepted the position of the Coordinator of Civil Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and recommendations by the Shin Bet security service, prohibiting 23 players from leaving the coastal enclave.
Israel total blockade of the Gaza District has families divided, and the economy paralyzed. Simple travels from Gaza to West Bank or Jerusalem are under IDF control.
Wouldn’t Israel be better off supporting sports in Gaza? Instead of denying the right of movement to the players, which create anger and anxiety, it should promote the free movement of people.
Last year, Israeli snipers shot Palestinian soccer player Khalil Obeid in both of his knees during a protest in Gaza ending a promising football career.
FreePalestine #FIFA #Soccer #PalestinianSports
The modern Tesla, Elon Musk the genius
By Marivel Guzman
Elon Musk is a genius innovator, a unique mind entrepreneur and along with that an extreme risk-taker who does not take a NO! As an answer.
Musk feels he is running out of time. He feels the humanity itself is running out of time. Musk wants to put in place the infrastructures for a fully automatic, electric solar-powered earth. And, in order to do that, he needs to control the companies that he started. Only under his lead will those companies achieve his dream.
After listening to all of Musk’s lectures and interviews I got to the conclusion that Musk is a man of many ideas, who likes to take risks on the spot, but I believe he sees the investor as a nuisance in his way for innovation.
Investors want to secure their investments with minimum risks. Musk, for the contrary, has the insights of a genius. He believes in himself and his genius about it. He has the idea in his head, and he is sure he can develop that idea. It’s pretty much like Nikolas Tesla used to think.
Besides that, he took the oil companies by the horns. And as if that wasn’t enough, he gave the old obsolete NASA few lessons in innovation and recycling of materials.
The electric car was a dream of Nikolas Tesla, but mainstream science never credited with the invention. The most commonly reported Tesla electric car was a converted Pierce-Arrow from 1931. A version of the account of Tesla’s car is in the book Secrets of Cold War Technology – Project HAARP and Beyond, by Gerry Vassilatos.
It is common sense that J. P. Morgan, who at the time was the financier of Edison lab, where Tesla worked, removed his finance for Tesla electricity projects because Tesla goal was to give electricity free to the people.
Musk fought the same demons Tesla did in its time. The devil investors, the for-profit Thomas Edison, and the greed of J P. Morgan.
Musk finds himself at crossroads with his conscience. He sees himself as a modern Tesla, but with money where, if he is left alone to develop his ideas, he can do wonders for this world.
The DOJ and Securities Exchanges should leave Musk alone to continue with his efforts to save humanity.
“Tesla Inc. is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The criminal probe is running alongside a previously reported civil inquiry by securities regulators.” Bloomberg.com
Solar City, Tesla, and Space X are three companies with a genius behind who wants the betterment of humanity. With this, I leave you with the iconic Tesla’s idea of science:
“Science is a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity,” Nikolas Tesla
The truth told should not be taken as insult!
Palestinian medics evacuating an injured protester during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, last year.
(Credit Adel Hana/Associated Press)
The truth told, should not be taken as insult!
Voices are usually silenced, when it comes to Israel.
Very often, we see public figures and government officials including members of Congress to receive a backlash of “angry voices” claiming that any statement make in regard of Israel, if isn’t favorable, then is antisemitism.
On July 12, four days after the latest war in Gaza began, hundreds of Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv to protest the killing of civilians on both sides and call for an end to the siege of Gaza and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The New York Time
In my opinion, the tragedy of WWII is an open wound for Palestinians, who still carry on their backs the horrific events that took place in Europe.
Before and after the end of the war, their destiny [Palestinians] was marked by the partition of their land.
The Jewish people, who emigrated to Palestine by force or by their own will, found safe heaven there, as Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said, during a Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.”
71 years later, Palestinians are suffering persecution, oppression, occupation, incarceration and a slow ethnic cleansing.
For Palestinians, the Holocaust is not a painful memory, but a crude reality.
Israel converted Palestine into a pastrami sandwich.
“What is to become of the Palestinians?” Churchill asked. “We’ll make a pastrami sandwich of them,” Ariel Sharon said.
Winston Churchill III recalled his 1973 encounter with Sharon during a National Press Club
By Sharon’s statement, it is obvious the plan to install settlements-Settlements are illegal under International Law, was to take more land, and to uproot more Palestinians.
#humanrights #occupation #Holocaust #Palestine
Cambridge data mining
By Marivel Guzman
Data mining is a technology designed to analyze large databases, with the purpose to generate new information.
There is something very important that unscrupulous companies do not take in consideration; The Right to privacy.
This brings the US Constitution into the argument of privacy laws and individual’s rights to privacy.
First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments have a clear language about individuals privacy protections, the Ninth Amendment is a key to all other privacy rights not specifically enumerated in the other Amendments.
The Ninth Amendment doesn’t specifically mention personal information, “Justice Goldberg in his Griswold concurrence) have interpreted the Ninth Amendment as justification for broadly reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight amendments.” University of Missouri, Exploring Constitutional Conflicts homepage.
“Everyday we hear about another undisclosed data breach. Private information is collected, sometimes sold and given away without our knowledge or consent. CEOs sit before Congress saying they will “do better” while stories continue to break about negligence and wrong-doing.” Mozilla Blog.
Privacy #DataMining #DataSharing #ThirdParties #Communications
Did Cambridge Analytica Help to Create ‘Digital Wokeness’?
Moon Landing 50th anniversary
Richard Nixon Library and Museum’s lobby, at the Moon, landing 50th-anniversary ceremony. photo/Marivel Guzman
day
The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of many “things,” including the Moon Landing.
Today the City of Fullerton in partnership with the Richard Nixon Library put together the Moon Landing 50th anniversary exhibits.
One of the perks to be a journalist, I got to visit the exhibits for free- It cost $17 for adults and $11 for children, free for children on a school field trip. In preparation for today’s ceremony, many local schools children attended the library to celebrate today’s historic day.
The library has very interesting exhibits related to the 60s, including the Vietnam War, the 1963 Birmingham riots, the Tet Offensive (1968) between other events from the 60s.
The Library still has the original home, where Richard Nixon born, with its rose garden.
Also, it holds part of the National Archives with 46 million pages of textual records, 3,431 hours of White House tapes, 418,000 photographs, 5,175 hours of video recording available for researchers.
Enjoy the tour! ❤
#MoonLanding #Apollo11 #SaturnIV #RichardNixonExhibits #50thAnniversaryMoon
And the band played on–Book Review
And the Band Played on
By Randy Shilts (1987)
Book Review
And the Band Played On, cover book by Randy Shilts
The beginning of the AIDS epidemics creates a blurred line in the history of the United States, nobody, that could have done something to stop the spread of the epidemic did anything of substance, except for their relatively small almost intrusive hand in the political game of the times.
Scientists and the first victims of AIDS will be exonerated by history. The gay community was scared, uninformed and was caught out of the guard, and the scientific community was left to their fortunes to try to stop the disease from disseminating.
I was in nursing school back in 1977 all the way to 1981. In those years the word AIDS did not exist in the pathology book we have to memorize to pass the class. Cancer in those days, it was a new disease being researched, but already making inroads in the life of Mexican women in hospital wards of Mexico.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is the name given to the disease, a shorter and less scary name for a Syndrome that will definitely kill anybody with the virus, which by 1980 was killing ‘gays people’ without having been properly known.
The scientific community of the US and France were in a battle for recognition, both nations top scientific did not really know what they were confronted with.
Shilts 657 pages The Band Played On book indeed did a good job into chronologically recording the juiciest aspects of the gay community with their “bathhouses” and their organizations.
Randy Shilts makes 273 references to Bathhouses all throughout the book and The “Blood-industry,” is repeated only 41 times, blood transfusion(s) is brought out only 67 times, but none of those mentions makes the blood industry to come clean for partaking in the spread of the HIV.
Presently a person with AIDS’s life expectancy is about 78, with medical treatment.
Coincidentally I did my one-year clinical practice in Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mex., which it was known as the town of the gays.
I was the head nurse of the rural hospital in Mocorito Health Center, I do not remember to see troves of gays with Kaposi sarcoma, actually, I do not have any recollection to see cancer cases at all. I do remember, we were running a program to eradicate Tuberculosis and Hepatitis, and for a town with so many gay people, it is strange not having a memory of AIDS cases.
In June 1981, the CDC published a report of five gay men from Los Angeles, Ca., who contracted a life-threatening disease, PCP pneumonia, which was never seen on people with an intact immune system. Also, in July of the same year, published the cases of a rare type of skin cancer that kills young gay people with AIDS, Kaposi’s sarcoma.
I appreciate the dignified pity Shilts dedicated to the gay community victims of AIDS, but I reproach the way he brushes off the blood industry for the spreading of AIDS. Stanford University, the biggest supplier of blood is the main responsible for the spread of the AIDS virus. The scientific community of United States has its big share of guilt, as well of Congress and the federal government.
By the way, Shilts makes so many references of the “bathhouses” all throughout the book, makes me believe he blames the bathhouses for the spreading of the disease. Shilts makes 201 references to Bathhouses and 72 references to “bathhouse.” This insistence on focusing so many chapters to the gay community as the culprits of the sin of AIDS is unfair.
AIDS being a new disease taking everyone by surprise should have put the media in a state of alert, but also, they fail to give the AIDS epidemic the attention it required.
The earliest press releases by the CDC confirmed that they were already taking measure to tackle the disease, but Reagan did not have any hurry in “tarnishing” his image with the epidemic. Shilts does not make a great effort to call onto the Reagan administration, or Congress into doing more allocating bigger budget for the investigation and treatment of the disease that it was costing so many lives.
I have to give him credit for taking such paramount job into writing the story of so many known guys affected by the disease in its earliest stages. He does fail to do more investigative reporting in other cities, he concentrated his stories in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, and by lack of imagination, he did not wonder in other towns and cities hospitals.
As an RN nurse and with knowledge of infectious diseases, I know that a disease such as AIDS, it wouldn’t have city lines.
Coincidentally as I write this review, I found a recent article in the New York Times, a self-conscience judgment.
“The New York Times had a spotty record of covering the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s — and gay culture in general. Times staffers reflect on the paper’s past, and what we can learn from it today.” The New York Times, April 28, 2018.
Shilts makes few allusions to the press of the time, their passivity to cover more aggressively the first instances of the epidemic. That could have been a game changer. If the news were doing their job, perhaps, the Reagan Administration could have done more, perhaps Congress could have made the blood industry to stop cold from distributing “one more once of blood.”
“If AIDS is indeed sexually transmitted, why have there been so few cases?” If scientists were doing the math, they should have known that gays right groups were correct to ask this question. Shilts isn’t preoccupied with investigating the stats of gays affected with the immune syndrome.
I’m very critical of this book narrative, which focuses, it is more emphasizing that gays are the vehicle of the agent of AIDS, rather than shifting the blame to the blood transfusions.
By mid-1982, Dr. Edgar Engleman, Stanford’s immunologist for the blood bank, had already figured out, that the disease could be spread in blood transfusions as well, “By early 1983, three AIDS cases were lying in Stanford University Hospital wards; for all three, their only “risk behavior” was having a blood transfusion in San Francisco,” Shilts said.
This statement was a good “scientific clue,” that blood transfusion should have been halt until further investigation on the cause of the virus was found. Why keep pounding on the idea that AIDS is spread through “Bathhouses.”?
I can understand that Shitls being gay wanted to highlight the life of the gay community in those bathhouses, perhaps, Shilts, the intent was to normalize the idea that gays are human beings like every other individual in American society. At one point on the narration, Shilts relates the funeral of a gay victim of AIDS, where the mother of disease asked the lover out of the service. I only can try to analyze Shilts’s intentions by making gays’ sufferings to resonate with American society.
If Shilts meant to write the tragedy of the gay community from LA, Miami, and NY, he nailed the story, but to have written this 657-page book as a chronological recorder of the evolution of the disease in American gay’s communities, it just does not add up. By the time he wrote “And the Band Played on,” there was plenty of scientific evidence that AIDS was not an only gay disease.
Yes, I agree that he incorporated the political climate of those years and it played perfectly well with his stories of gays sentenced to death. Another scoring point for Shilts is his liberal and literal use of the “word anal.” He feels that is entitled to say what he enjoys as a gay man without having to explain further. Kudos to him on this.
Shilts missed the opportunity to expose the government coverup—an epidemic spreading like wildfire, and the federal government isn’t declaring an emergency, it isn’t allocating millions of dollars for research. As a journalist and a gay person, Shilts missed the focal point of the spreading of AIDS.
Multi-Center AIDS Cohort Studies by 1982, had already guarantee grant money for research, no mention of that in Shilts’s book.
According to Shilts, The Department of Public Health still had not produced one piece of informational literature on AIDS, he said. But, public records show that the CDC has already published a press release advising the scientific community of the epidemic.
The CDC is the main actor in Shilts’s book, he mentioned the CDS 564 times all through the book, for a 567 pages book, the mentions are a little bit exaggerated. In all credit to the CDS, by June 1981, it has already published a press release, and by May of the same year the MMRW (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by the CDC have already confirmed 5 cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in Los Angeles (1). All of the men were described as “homosexuals”; two had died. Local clinicians and the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer stationed at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, prepared the report and submitted it for MMWR publication in early May 1981.
As an RN, I find the book to lack the scientific sources, to be considered a “breakthrough” literature on AIDS.
If you want to learn about the beginning of AIDS, Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter H. Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley, and a pioneer in retrovirus research. His book it is a great read with peer journal references to his studies and an outstanding credible researcher, which articles have appeared in several scientific journals.
Shilts’s The Band Played On, it is a good book, which brings the human side of gays and as a gay journalist, he dared to expose the hypocrisy in politics and the little care they have for the wellbeing of Americans.
AIDS took the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. In the beginning, the “Blood Industry,” which is a multi-billion dollar business refused to throw away their existing batches of blood in their banks.
Even if it was not thoroughly investigated, thousands of patients got infected through blood transfusions.
The blood industry is as guilty as the US government from the AIDS epidemic.
“And the Band Played on” by Randy Shilts (1987) explores thoroughly the beginning of AIDS in the US.
UNRWA free of United States interference
Last week the White House stopped its funding to UNRWA, the agencyiin charge of supporting and protecting Palestinians refugees.
At this point is expected that it will continue its mission through personal donations. According to uts official page, UNRWA also receives funding from the European Union and partner organizations.
Skipping the middle man! This could be the best opportunity to sideline the US government, which have been the main obstacle for peace in Palestine—The US Congress also is to blame having funded the Israeli’s military with billions of dollars. This funding have emboldened Israel.
At this moment the future of UNRWA US is unsure. I share their page, but I’m skeptical if the funds can be delivered directly to the occupied territories without official channels. Also taking in consideration that Israel receives the money before is handled to the Palestinian Authority.
UNRWA is a non-profit, that functions as a direct dependent of the UN, which was funded in the same year the agency was funded–In 1949 UNRWA was created with the sole purpose to assist and protect Palestinians dispossessed of their lands, homes and livehood after the partition.
At this point we don’t know what is going to happen to UNRWA. It is true several countries and private organizations also help in its funding, but we need to hear more information from the WH regarding its standing regarding UNRWA—Will the WH allow UNRWA to function without government interference?
“WE PROVIDE ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION FOR
SOME 5 MILLION PALESTINER EFUGEES,” UNRWA official page
SacState Run Fun for Palestine
Marivel Guzman, at California State University, Sacramento, The Well Fun Run race. I’m running for my team “Running for Freedom,” on April 19, 2018, Sacramento, Calif. (Photo/Cintia Lopez)
Hello family, friends, and brothers and sisters in humanity. This is one of the essays for my Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration class. RPTA 100 is an upper division class I took to complement the 120 units requirements to graduate. To pass the class, we have to create two major discovery events of leisure and recreation, that serve us in all aspects of our psychological and physiological needs.
By the time, I enrolled for the race, I have done my two main discovery events, but I could do it for some extra credit (5 points), not bad if you consider that 5 points could be the difference between getting a BA or not.
Everybody that is close to me knows, that I started my journalism career, as a way to serve the Palestinian cause.
“I’m studying journalism to be a better peace activist, to be a better writer for the cause of justice,”Akashma
I know my shortcoming with the English language. English is not my native language. I have struggled for years to master the art of writing a good essay, or even a good article without having to resorts to a grammar edition software, which is probably used by every English book writer, and every accomplished journalist.
This small essay is a simple example of how everything I do in my assignments as a student at Sac State is turned into an activist piece for Palestine.
In the past, I tried to merge my identity as a peace activist and my journalistic career, but it did not come too well. In college, my writings were not published and here at the university, my audacity got me in problems with the then editor in chief of the Hornet, Sacramento State’s student newspaper.
According to my adviser, the and EIC of the Hornet, me, as a student journalist I cannot write for my the newspaper on issues of Palestine, the newspaper alleges Bias, and conflict of interest because I’m peace activist. I alleged that I’m peace activist, and because of it, I know about the issues played on in society, but also, I argued that me, I’m a professional journalist, who will cover events and report on the merits of the event, really in all conscience, I cannot lose my identity as a human being. I must continue what I feel is right. Is being biased for truth and justice is a conflict of interest, then so be it.
I have found other ways to serve my biased cause of justice: Here is one simple example, not for a journalist class but, this essay gets to be published in the wires.
Without further due; The Essay 5k Fun Run Running for Palestine 5K Fun Run
Short video of the last few seconds of the race
Congress mass hysteria: Facebook marketplace is not fair game
Ben Shapiro is a bright mind. I don’t agree with him 51 percent of the time but on this charade of congressional hearing, I agree; Completely!
In the video I shared bellow, Shapiro is shredding to pieces the “mass charade” of Mark Zuckerberg “testifying in Congress.”
In my opinion, the Mark Zuckerberg Congressional hearing was a circus for mass entertainment. Somehow, Congress is directing the attention away from the orders of President Donald Trump to invade a foreign state bypassing with this UN Security Council. This is another whole issue that I will discuss in another post.
I totally agree that Facebook has the responsibility to protect its user’s data–Not to sell it, not to lend it as the case with Cambridge Analytics, specially because, Cambridge Analytics is a foreign institution. It is a British political consulting firm, a corto its own website. Whose parent company SLC Group,” A private British behavioral research and strategic communication company.
What is interesting if you follow down the rabbit’s hole, you find out that SLC group joins the US State Department.
“Robert Mercer-funded dedicated Cambridge Analytics foreign parent company signs a deal to do propaganda work for State’s Global Engagement Center” says Text fire, at medium.com
According to medium.com, SLC Group was recently awarded a defense contract with the US State’s Department. To my opinion the whole scandal was because US State Department was caught with its pants down due to the leak by Christopher Wylie, “A whistle blower who exposed Cambridge Analytica’s role in a data breach affecting 50 million Facebook users earlier this month, tweeted documents that suggested the firm’s parent company,” said The Washington Post and its Asia&Pacific section of March 28 article, “Whistleblower claims Cambridge Analytica’s partners in India worked on elections, raising privacy fears.”
On the other hand, Facebook as a private business reserves the right to change the internal policies of its organization.
The users are given the tools to change the privacy settings, but nobody takes a day off to read Facebook privacy settings.
Mass hysteria will start when somebody does it and raise hell in his wall then everybody starts to share the “raise hell post,” then people go to change their privacy settings.
Now, regarding Facebook’s practices of gatekeeper of news, that is a whole new issue. Congress should ask the proper questions.
Also, monitoring our political views and sharing that information to parties that will use them against us in a “psychological experiment,” to sway our opinions, it is atrocious, right? But isn’t that exactly what main streammedia does, and for that matter our own government as well.
News networks chose and pick commentators that are sharp, well-mannered, and well groom into the network’s agenda. The guests are as well leaned to that agenda and to ‘make the audience’ believe they are unbiased, they’ll invite somebody on the other side of the political spectrum, and either, the guests are caught up with questions he/she can not answer with a short response, or the guest will be aggressive re-battled. If the guest is brave enough to make his voice heard, his/her microphone volume is decreased to the point where his voice is inaudible.
The same behavior is used by lobbyists, and politicians campaigns. They all use physiological behavioral strategies to impact the subconscious of the population.
Now, does Facebook have the right to do the same with their users?
The sponsors of Facebook do that job and because of those sponsors it’s that users have a free platform to share whatever they want to share.
The issue becomes skewed and spooky because Facebook is a global organization and serves a global market. Of course there always will be foreign interference and adds will flow freely to target audiences. Where is the illegally on that?
If this is so offensive and damaging to our democracy then foreign agencies as AIPAC should be illegal to operate in US soil.
Is Facebook guilty of treason? Then so is Congress, they take money from foreign entities such AIPAC, which clearly is a foreign agency working on behalf of Israel. It doesn’t matter that Israel is a friend of the US still is a foreign state.
Or, Is Facebook guilty of violating its own privacy policies? Well that crime won’t take anybody to jail but certainly can teach us that in a free marketplace everything is free game. Right?
After all we live in a Capitalist system where “supply and demand,” rules the game.
The Mist
The Mist
I feel myself as part of the air, the water, the mountain, the tree, the earth, the fire and the mist.
The abstract sensation of not being in a solid state but ether—that is, a ‘something’ that exists everywhere like the Akash that surrounds us all in a phrase, “From above so is bellow”.
This is a reflection of my altered essence that feels like being everywhere; touched but touching, admired but admiring, but also a transparent and diluted substance molded by the strokes of pain that follows everything I touch, everything that I dream.
But, there is also a feeling of being part of the ‘nowhere’, where you don’t see me, but you feel me; like the air. You feel me through my emotions, passions and pains. Everything that transpire from my essence is me. It’s my soul ‘talking’.
But at the end, I’m the mist of my conquered ideals. I have to surrender to justice and equality, and as the mist, I’ll disappear with white and black tones of grainy rebellion. My soul is boiling with tremores of love for humanity, for earth, for truth, justice and peace.
I must dissipate! ❤️
By Marivel Guzman
March 12, 2018
A prophet in a strange land; the story of one Hispanic
By Marivel Guzman
Back in his younger poetic years, Diego Bonilla, now a professor at Sacramento State University, couldn’t foresee what his passion for the internet would bring to fulfill his dreams as a digital dimensionality event manipulator.
He has worked for more than 20 years building a story of many faces that has brought success to his innovator mind, shaping a new perspective in the field of experimental filmmaking, pedagogy and digital communication.
Sacramento State has yet to recognize such a luminary, a missed opportunity for Sac State to maximize on one of its own faculty member.
Diego Bonilla, was born and raised in Mexico City and he said, his privileged status brought him to the prestigious Syracuse University in New York, where he obtained his doctorate in Media Management, in 2003, winning a doctoral prize in Mass Communications with his dissertation; “The Medium is the Measure of Itself,” he said.
His first book “El Anfitreatro de la Memoria,” (Amphitheater of the Memory)was published on 1995, this book was the beginnings of a long career as a published author. El Anfitreatro de la Memoria is a short book of personal love poetry, which “I rather not revive,” he said.
His career took a dramatic turn when his passion for the Liberal Arts changed for computers, communications and algorithms.
Bonilla is a rather shy person who does not brag about his achievements and prizes, but an internet search unveils his international recognitions as scholar, media innovator, experimental filmmaker, published author and countless international conferences and lecture invitations from around the world.
Bonilla has an extensive repertoire list with publications; including books, online learning tools material, text books, editorial medium presentation, media and computer text used until recently in Ecuador, among his publication you find journals and Film instructional methodology.
Hypermedia is one of his scholarly works, “Developing hypermedia is an absolute passion,” he said.
At age 49, Bonilla is married with a 5-year old daughter and happy with his professional and personal achievements. Five years ago, when his daughter born, he found happiness in life, he said.
According to Bonilla, he changed his career at request of his parents, who convinced him to study Business Administrator, “to manage his artistic career.” This dramatic change from poet to business impacted his passion for poetry and storyteller, he said.
Recently Bonilla’s prototype film “Accidental Occurrence,” was selected as a premier experimental film preview at 12 international festivals, winning “Best Experimental Short Film,” Latin Prizes Festival, at Spain, 2017.
Sac State still haven’t congratulated its brilliant professor, according to Sac State Communication Department Chair Gerry Smith, said “I guess is up to me the chair of the department to communicate to Public Affairs.”
“The department is aware of his accolades and prize and of his success,” Smith said the university is lucky to have him.
Other than receiving a congratulatory email from Sheree Meyer, dean of undergraduate studies, Bonilla has not gotten any recognition from the administration. Although Smith recognizes Bonilla “As a brilliant academic and artist that creates innovative work, which is impressive by any standards,” she did not inform the university public affairs.
There are only two persons working in this type of projects, like the The new Prestidigitador. Native strategies for the creation of hypermedia, and Accidental Occurrence are an innovation in the art of digital manipulation of audio-visual, “Me here at Sac and a professor at MIT,” he said.
I found Bonillas’s “Accidental Occurrence” film at U-Nite, at Crocker Museum, which allows Sac State and students, faculty and staff to showcase their work for one night.
Such luminary shouldn’t be left in the anonymity of a classroom said Walter Yost, Sac State associate professor. “The university should support its faculty especially those who potentially bring good PR,” Yast said.
“Accidental Occurrence,” is a film that projects the dimensionality of an event, Bonilla said. You can program a set of frames in a film and chose which characters, which events you want to play in a story. With the algorithms he invented, he could generate a sequence of 9,000,000 different events with a film of 70 frames, “You’ll never watch the same film,” he said.
He sees himself in 20 years with free time and financial worry-free luxury life to develop more of his projects like this type of experimental film. Until now, he has financed his own projects, “this type of project is out of the university’s budget.
Winning the Mallorca Festival has given him the exposure he was looking for. It is not easy, he summited other projects to dozens of festivals and this time he got lucky, Bonilla said.
Accidental Occurrence was officially for dozen of International festivals among thousands of film submissions, he said.
He is not looking for money with his projects, Bonilla said but the opportunity to innovate the world of communications through the well learn use of computers.
Bonilla enjoys teaching computer and media, he said, teaching brings him peace of mind and his experimental film making technology is a long time passion and pastime that will bring change in the way technology is used, he said.
“He has opened my eyes to new types of films and new ways to think about them,” said Mark Turner, communication major.
For Kelsey Harning, Bonilla has a unique perspective as a professor, “he opens my eyes to new ways of thinking about films,” she appreciates how Bonilla makes them (students) get to be more thoughtful and critical thinkers.
Sac State has missed the opportunity to maximize this brilliant Hispanic computer savvy innovator and Filmmaker, who is a name recognized world wide as scholar and computer genius.
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