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  31. <title>Israeli Government Approves Plan for Full Military Occupation of Gaza</title>
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  42. <p>Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said once the new offensive begins, it will not end until the Strip is &#8216;conquered&#8217; The Israeli government has approved plans to expand the genocidal war on Gaza that Israeli officials say will lead to the full Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territory. The plan involves capturing more territory in Gaza, [&#8230;]</p>
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  48. <p><em>Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said once the new offensive begins, it will not end until the Strip is &#8216;conquered&#8217;</em></p>
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  52. <p>The Israeli government has approved plans <a href="https://archive.is/WsDE0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">to expand the genocidal war on Gaza</a> that Israeli officials say will lead to the full Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territory.</p>
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  56. <p>The plan involves capturing more territory in Gaza, expanding the so-called “buffer zone” where the IDF has demolished virtually every structure, and forcibly displacing Palestinian civilians to move them all to a small area of southern Gaza.</p>
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  60. <p><em>Axios</em> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/05/israel-gaza-destroy-trump-deal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">later reported</a> that the Israeli plan involves flattening every single building that remains in Gaza, forcing the entire civilian population into one single area, and pressuring them to leave as part of an ethnic cleansing plan, though it’s unclear what countries are willing to take them.</p>
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  64. <p>An Israeli official told&nbsp;<em>Haaretz</em>&nbsp;that the plan is different from previous Israeli military operations because it will lead to “the occupation of territory and a sustained Israeli presence in Gaza.”</p>
  65.  
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  67.  
  68. <p>Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-israel-should-embrace-gaza-occupation-idf-wont-leave-even-for-hostages/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">said Israel is</a> “finally going to occupy the Gaza Strip” and that it was “no longer afraid of the word ‘occupation.&#8217;”</p>
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  72. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IDF-troops-in-Rafah.jpg.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="576" decoding="async" src="https://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IDF-troops-in-Rafah.jpg-1024x576.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-154844"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em><sup>Israeli troops in Rafah, southern Gaza (IDF photo)</sup></em></figcaption></figure>
  73.  
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  75.  
  76. <p>Smotrich said that once the new offensive starts, nothing will stop Israel’s plans to “conquer” Gaza, not even Hamas releasing all the Israeli hostages.</p>
  77.  
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  79.  
  80. <p>“There will be no retreat from the territories we have conquered, not even in exchange for hostages,” Smotrich said. “Once we occupy and stay, we can talk about sovereignty. But I did not demand that this be included among the goals of the war. First, we will defeat Hamas and prevent it from existing.”</p>
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  84. <p>Both Smotrich and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have made clear that freeing the hostage<a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/01/netanyahu-says-freeing-hostages-is-not-his-priority/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">s is not their priority</a> and that the ultimate goal is ethnic cleansing, which they frame as “voluntary migration.”</p>
  85.  
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  88. <p>A group representing the family members of Israeli captives held in Gaza slammed the new plan for Gaza. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said the plan should be named the “Smotrich-Netanyahu plan” to “give up on the hostages and Israel’s security and national resilience.”</p>
  89.  
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  91.  
  92. <p>According to <em>AFP</em>, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-allow-window-hostage-deal-expanded-gaza-campaign-security?nid=421833&amp;topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&amp;fid=544392" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">an Israeli official said </a>Israel would allow a “window” to reach a hostage deal with Hamas during President Trump’s visit to the region, which will begin on May 13, before launching the offensive. But a deal is unlikely since Israel has <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/19/hamas-offers-to-release-all-remaining-israeli-hostages-in-exchange-for-a-permanent-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">repeatedly rejected</a> an offer from Hamas for all the captives to be freed in exchange for a permanent truce.</p>
  93.  
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  96. <p>The&nbsp;<em>Axios</em>&nbsp;report said that President Trump isn’t pushing for a ceasefire deal and has “effectively given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit.”</p>
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  99.  
  100. <p>The approval of the plan to take over Gaza comes after over two months of a total Israeli blockade on the Strip, and as children <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1919397635867213994" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">are starving to death</a> due to the lack of aid. According to <em><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-gaza-war-hamas-offensive-expanding-expel-palestinians/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CBS News</a></em>, the plan includes a mechanism to have a private security company distribute aid in Gaza<em>,</em> but there’s no indication it will be implemented soon or that it would provide the relief needed to stave off a massive famine.</p>
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  108. <title>Florida Withdraws Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bills From Consideration</title>
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  112. <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  118. <description><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1000" src="https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/3940e7b06265d855cfc2ff7912e317fc20796bfa-1500x1000-1.avif" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/3940e7b06265d855cfc2ff7912e317fc20796bfa-1500x1000-1.avif 1500w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/3940e7b06265d855cfc2ff7912e317fc20796bfa-1500x1000-1-300x200.avif 300w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/3940e7b06265d855cfc2ff7912e317fc20796bfa-1500x1000-1-1024x683.avif 1024w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/3940e7b06265d855cfc2ff7912e317fc20796bfa-1500x1000-1-768x512.avif 768w, https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/3940e7b06265d855cfc2ff7912e317fc20796bfa-1500x1000-1-1024x683-560x373.avif 560w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /></p>
  119. <p>The two bills, which were both filed in February, sought to allow investment of public funds in BTC What to know: Florida has withdrawn two bills related to the creation of a state-level strategic bitcoin (BTC) reserve. House Bill&#160;487&#160;and Senate Bill&#160;550&#160;have been &#8220;indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration,&#8221; according to the state Senate website. The [&#8230;]</p>
  120. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/florida-withdraws-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-bills-from-consideration/">Florida Withdraws Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bills From Consideration</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  123.  
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  125. <p><em>The two bills, which were both filed in February, sought to allow investment of public funds in BTC</em></p>
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  129. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-what-to-know">What to know:</h4>
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  134. <li>Florida has withdrawn two bills related to the creation of a state-level strategic bitcoin reserve.</li>
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  138. <li>House Bill <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/487" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">487</a> and Senate Bill <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/550" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">550</a> have been &#8220;indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration.&#8221;</li>
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  142. <li>Florida joins numerous other states, such as Wyoming, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, which have seen bills related to BTC investments fail to clear the legislative process.</li>
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  147. <p>Florida has withdrawn two bills related to the creation of a state-level strategic bitcoin (BTC) reserve.</p>
  148.  
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  150.  
  151. <p>House Bill&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/487" rel="noreferrer noopener">487</a>&nbsp;and Senate Bill&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/550" rel="noreferrer noopener">550</a>&nbsp;have been &#8220;indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration,&#8221; according to the state Senate website. The two bills, which were both filed in February, sought to allow investment of public funds in BTC.</p>
  152.  
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  155. <p>Florida joins numerous other states, such as Wyoming, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, which have seen bills related to BTC investments fail to clear the legislative process,&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="https://bitcoinlaws.io/reserve-race" rel="noreferrer noopener">according to Bitcoin Laws</a>. There are a string of other states with outstanding bills, most of which remain in the initial committee phase.</p>
  156.  
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  159. <p>The most advanced state-level process to establishing a BTC reserve was in Arizona, where SB 1025 passed a House vote by 31-25 <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/03/arizona-governor-calls-crypto-an-untested-investment-vetoes-bitcoin-reserve-bill" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">only to be vetoed by Governor Katie Hobbs</a>. The bill proposed permitting the investment of seized funds into BTC.</p>
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  163. <p>There remains the related SB 1373, which would allow up to 10% of Arizona state funds to be allocated into digital assets. This bill has yet to reach a final vote.</p>
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  167. <p><strong><em>Read More: <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-news/2025/04/25/swiss-national-bank-rejects-calls-to-add-bitcoin-reserves" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Swiss National Bank Rejects Calls to Add Bitcoin Reserves</a></em></strong></p>
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  175. <title>Yemen Hits Ben Gurion, Declares Blockade, Redefines 21st Century Resistance</title>
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  179. <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  186. <p>Yemen’s Ansar Allah has declared an air blockade on Israel following a missile strike on Ben Gurion Airport—and vowed to escalate further after Israel responded with airstrikes on Sanaa’s civilian infrastructure. “The Israeli aggression will not deter Yemen from continuing its operations in support of the oppressed in Gaza,” senior Ansar Allah official Mohammad al-Bukhaiti [&#8230;]</p>
  187. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/yemen-hits-ben-gurion-declares-blockade-redefines-21st-century-resistance/">Yemen Hits Ben Gurion, Declares Blockade, Redefines 21st Century Resistance</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  192. <p>Yemen’s Ansar Allah has declared an air blockade on Israel following a missile strike on Ben Gurion Airport—and vowed to escalate further after Israel responded with airstrikes on Sanaa’s civilian infrastructure. “The Israeli aggression will not deter Yemen from continuing its operations in support of the oppressed in Gaza,” senior Ansar Allah official Mohammad al-Bukhaiti said this morning following the bombing of Sanaa International Airport, power stations, and a cement factory.</p>
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  196. <p>Sunday’s missile strike near Terminal 3 of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv marked a strategic turning point—not simply for its reach or symbolism, but for the direct military and economic challenge it poses to Israel and its U.S.-backed defense systems.</p>
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  200. <p>The Yemeni Armed Forces, the military wing of Ansar Allah, launched a missile that traveled more than 2,000 kilometers before striking the entrance of Israel’s busiest airport. The projectile bypassed&nbsp;<a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemeni-missile-hits-ben-gurion-airport-as-interceptors-fail" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">multiple layers</a>&nbsp;of Israeli and U.S. air defenses, including the Arrow 2, Arrow 3, and THAAD systems. The missile created a 25-meter crater on impact, causing widespread disruption to air traffic, though no fatalities were reported.</p>
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  204. <p>The failure to intercept the missile has caused great embarrassment to the Israeli military. Yet dealt a greater blow to the US Trump administration’s ongoing assault on Yemen, which the American President had claimed back in March to have “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/houthis-target-drones-hampering-trump-mission/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">decimated</a>” Ansarallah and its capabilities.</p>
  205.  
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  208. <p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly vowed retaliation,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/4/missile-launched-from-yemen-hits-israels-ben-gurion-airport-in-tel-aviv" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">writing on X</a>, “Israel will respond to the Houthi attack against our main airport AND, at a time and place of our choosing, to their Iranian terror masters,” claiming that Yemen’s attacks “emanate from Iran”.</p>
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  212. <p>Multiple Israeli and American officials have since accused Iran of directing the strike, a charge Tehran denies. The timing coincides with renewed nuclear negotiations involving U.S. President Donald Trump and came just hours before Iran publicly unveiled its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-unveils-new-solid-fueled-ballistic-missile-with-1200-km-range/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Qassem Basir ballistic missile</a>—a 1,200-kilometer-range weapon developed specifically to bypass Israeli defenses</p>
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  216. <p>Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, along with a number of regional experts, suggested that Israel’s escalation is a calculated effort to derail those talks, placing the region on edge, where even a spark between Yemen and Israel could ignite into a broader war.</p>
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  220. <p>On the same day as the Ben Gurion strike, Israel launched coordinated airstrikes against targets in Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria—an expansive show of force that could collapse what’s left of the already fragile regional stability.</p>
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  224. <p>Then on&nbsp;May 6, 2025, Israel launched a series of&nbsp;<a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--bombs-yemen-s-sanaa-airport--other-civilian-infrast" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">airstrikes</a>&nbsp;targeting key infrastructure in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Israeli military reported that these strikes fully disabled Sanaa International Airport, destroyed a cement factory, and hit multiple power stations. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated that these facilities were used by Ansar Allah for transferring weapons and operatives.</p>
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  228. <p>Ansar Allah, for its part, declared the beginning of a comprehensive aerial blockade of Israel in retaliation for the ongoing assault on Gaza and what it described as a deliberate policy of starvation targeting Palestinian civilians. Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, stated the group would “<a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/ansarallah-declares-aerial-blockade-on-israel-after-targeting-ben-gurion-airport/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">repeatedly target airports</a>” to enforce the blockade until aid is allowed into Gaza.</p>
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  232. <p>Even online, Israel hasn’t been safe from Ansar Allah’s reach. The group has issued direct threats in Hebrew and disseminated military statements across Israeli social media platforms, challenging Israel’s long-standing dominance in psychological and information warfare.</p>
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  236. <p>Israel launched a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israel-bombs-yemens-hodeidah-port-day-after-houthi-strike-on-tel-avivs-main-airport-8338458" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wave of airstrikes</a>&nbsp;on the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah on Monday, hitting civilian infrastructure, including port facilities and a cement factory. Yemen’s Minister of Information, Hashem Sharaf al-Din, said the strikes would only expand the group’s “target bank” inside Israel.</p>
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  240. <p>The strikes also sent ripples through international aviation, with several global airlines suspending flights to and from Israel, citing ongoing missile threats and instability.</p>
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  244. <p>At the heart of the conflict lies a growing asymmetry: Israel’s use of multimillion-dollar interceptor systems to counter Ansar Allah’s relatively low-cost missiles presents a strategic and financial imbalance increasingly unsustainable for Tel Aviv.</p>
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  248. <p>Despite the blow to Israel’s military prestige, many in the Israeli press focused on what the breach reveals about the country’s vulnerabilities. Observers noted that the missile used was of a fixed-trajectory type—typically easier to intercept—yet none of Israel’s (or the U.S.’s) advanced defense layers managed to stop it.</p>
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  252. <p>This failure has raised difficult questions about the effectiveness of Israeli air defenses, particularly when facing determined resistance movements capable of deploying long-range projectiles on a shoestring budget.</p>
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  256. <p>Janatan Sayeh of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryfmgpnege" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">told Yediot Aharonot</a>&nbsp;that “this is asymmetric warfare by design. You don’t need to inflict mass casualties. You just need to make your adversary bleed money.”</p>
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  260. <p>Ansar Allah’s low-cost, high-impact strategy exemplifies the economic pressure tactics that now define resistance operations in the region, where strategic gains are made not just through force, but through financial attrition.</p>
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  263.  
  264. <p>Israeli military officials have since warned that further actions may be imminent. Ansar Allah has reiterated that airports and critical infrastructure will remain within its sights so long as Gaza continues to suffer bombardment and blockade.</p>
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  268. <p>The evolution of Ansar Allah from a regional insurgency into a long-range actor with strategic reach reveals the emergence of a new reality. No longer confined to Yemen’s borders, the group is now helping shape the trajectory of the broader Middle East conflict—and in doing so, is redefining resistance in the 21st century.</p>
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  272. <p><em>Editor’s Note | This article was updated on May 6, 2025, to include new developments following Israel’s strikes on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and a statement from a senior Ansar Allah official responding to the escalation.</em></p>
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  276. <p>Feature photo | Israeli security forces examine the crater where an Ansar Allah-fired missile struck near Ben Gurion International Airport on May 4, 2025. Ohad Zwigenberg | AP</p>
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  280. <p><em><strong>Robert Inlakesh</strong>&nbsp;is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the occupied Palestinian territories and hosts the show ‘Palestine Files’. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’. Follow him on Twitter @falasteen47</em></p>
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  306.  
  307.  
  308. <p><strong><em>This is a white-pill conversation for those who’ve spent years pushing back against official lies</em></strong></p>
  309.  
  310.  
  311.  
  312. <p>In this explosive episode of The Free Thought Project podcast, Jason, Matt, and Don sit down with returning guest James Corbett — independent journalist, researcher, and founder of The Corbett Report. Known globally for his meticulous investigations into 9/11, technocracy, and the rise of globalist power structures, James has been producing hard-hitting alternative media content since 2007. He’s been a principled voice for truth when it was neither profitable nor popular — and he’s back with us for the second time, following the release of his new book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order.</p>
  313.  
  314.  
  315.  
  316. <p>Together, we discuss the bizarre mainstream pivot toward 9/11 skepticism and how those once labeled “fringe” are suddenly finding their narratives validated — but without acknowledgement or accountability from the establishment that smeared them. James unpacks the psychology of gaslighting, the legacy media’s shifting tactics, and why this moment matters for independent media.</p>
  317.  
  318.  
  319.  
  320. <p>We also dive into the Trump administration’s creeping technocratic police state, how legacy outlets like Mother Jones and shady ops like PropOrNot tried to silence voices like ours and James’s, and what we can do to keep the truth from being weaponized all over again.</p>
  321.  
  322.  
  323.  
  324. <p>This is a white-pill conversation for those who’ve spent years pushing back against official lies — and a warning for those tempted to let their guard down now that the liars are “letting us be right.”<br>(Length: 55:40)</p>
  325.  
  326.  
  327.  
  328. <p>You can follow, support, and study all Corbett&#8217;s work at his website,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.corbettreport.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.corbettreport.com/</a></p>
  329.  
  330.  
  331.  
  332. <p>Find his new book here:&nbsp;<a href="https://reportagebook.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://reportagebook.com/</a></p>
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  340. <title>In 1910 Normal American&#8217;s Were Rich. How We Lost It and How We Get It Back</title>
  341. <link>https://www.activistpost.com/in-1910-normal-americans-were-rich-how-we-lost-it-and-how-we-get-it-back/</link>
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  344. <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
  345. <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
  346. <category><![CDATA[Crisis Investing]]></category>
  347. <category><![CDATA[Doug Casey]]></category>
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  352. <p>What a Junior Engineer Can Teach Us About a Time When America Really Was Great We&#8217;re told we&#8217;ve never had it better. America and Americans are rich, they say. That wages are up, quality of life is high, and progress marches on. We all know that isn’t quite true, but it’s hard to pinpoint the [&#8230;]</p>
  353. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/in-1910-normal-americans-were-rich-how-we-lost-it-and-how-we-get-it-back/">In 1910 Normal American&#8217;s Were Rich. How We Lost It and How We Get It Back</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  356.  
  357.  
  358. <p><em>What a Junior Engineer Can Teach Us About a Time When America Really Was Great</em></p>
  359.  
  360.  
  361.  
  362. <p>We&#8217;re told we&#8217;ve never had it better. America and Americans are rich, they say. That wages are up, quality of life is high, and progress marches on.</p>
  363.  
  364.  
  365.  
  366. <p>We all know that isn’t quite true, but it’s hard to pinpoint the problem.</p>
  367.  
  368.  
  369.  
  370. <p>I just finished a great book recommended by&nbsp;</p>
  371.  
  372.  
  373.  
  374. <p><a href="https://open.substack.com/users/46387931-matt-bracken?utm_source=mentions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Matt Bracken</a> and <a href="https://open.substack.com/users/45474107-michael-yon?utm_source=mentions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Michael Yon</a>. It’s called, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Path-Between-Seas-Creation-1870-1914-ebook/dp/B002FK3U4Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Path Between The Seas</a> and it’s all about the creation of the Panama Canal between 1881-1914. The book is well written and researched, and several facts stuck out for me. There’s so much to tell, but this isn’t a book review.</p>
  375.  
  376.  
  377.  
  378. <p>I merely want to share a single important observation from the book. Being a great researcher, the author quotes a lot of dollar amounts associated with the project &#8211; including salaries of Americans who worked on the project.</p>
  379.  
  380.  
  381.  
  382. <p>By today’s standards, the amount seems small, but if you do the math something shocking becomes apparent.</p>
  383.  
  384.  
  385.  
  386. <p>In the early 1900s, when a man said he earned a dollar, it&nbsp;<strong>meant something real</strong>. Back then,&nbsp;<strong>$1 was 1/20th of an ounce of gold</strong>. That wasn&#8217;t just a metaphor—it was the monetary system. So when someone earned $3,000, they were, in fact, earning&nbsp;<strong>150 ounces of gold</strong>.</p>
  387.  
  388.  
  389.  
  390. <p>That one detail changes the way you read the book and reveals the single greatest ill destroying our society today. Broken money has impoverished all of us.</p>
  391.  
  392.  
  393.  
  394. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-engineer-who-earned-more-than-you">The Engineer Who Earned More Than You</h4>
  395.  
  396.  
  397.  
  398. <p>In&nbsp;<em>The Path Between the Seas</em>, David McCullough describes life in the Panama Canal Zone around 1910. He notes that a junior civil engineer—just 2 or 3 years into his career—was paid&nbsp;<strong>$250 a month</strong>, or&nbsp;<strong>$3,000 a year</strong>. Working on the canal project was hazardous so the engineer earned $25 more a month than he would have earned if he’d stayed in the US as a form of hazard pay.</p>
  399.  
  400.  
  401.  
  402. <p>He also received:</p>
  403.  
  404.  
  405.  
  406. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  407. <li><strong>42 paid vacation days</strong></li>
  408.  
  409.  
  410.  
  411. <li><strong>30 paid sick days</strong></li>
  412.  
  413.  
  414.  
  415. <li><strong>No income tax</strong>, because the U.S. didn&#8217;t have one yet</li>
  416. </ul>
  417.  
  418.  
  419.  
  420. <p>Let’s put that in terms of hard money:</p>
  421.  
  422.  
  423.  
  424. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  425. <li><strong>$3,000 ÷ $20 = 150 oz of gold</strong></li>
  426.  
  427.  
  428.  
  429. <li>At today&#8217;s price of <strong>$3,000/oz</strong>, that&#8217;s <strong>$450,000/year</strong></li>
  430. </ul>
  431.  
  432.  
  433.  
  434. <p>We’re not talking about Thomas Edison here, we’re talking a normal junior engineer. Now compare the actual value he received for his work to a civil engineer today with similar experience:</p>
  435.  
  436.  
  437.  
  438. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7373af2d-29b4-4bfa-8622-e564137d42ee_693x147.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='693'%20height='147'%20viewBox=%270%200%20693%20147%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" class="tf_svg_lazy" width="693" height="147" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7373af2d-29b4-4bfa-8622-e564137d42ee_693x147.png" alt="" title=""/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7373af2d-29b4-4bfa-8622-e564137d42ee_693x147.png" alt="" title=""/></noscript></a></figure>
  439.  
  440.  
  441.  
  442. <p><br>That&#8217;s an <strong>88% collapse</strong> in gold-based compensation—for the same job, same skill level, and same experience.</p>
  443.  
  444.  
  445.  
  446. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-top-1-of-income-earners-today">Top 1% of Income Earners Today</h4>
  447.  
  448.  
  449.  
  450. <p>To be in the top 1% of individual income earners in the United States in 2025, you need to earn at least&nbsp;<strong>$407,500 per year</strong>.</p>
  451.  
  452.  
  453.  
  454. <p>In today’s context this makes no sense. This guy wasn’t a finance bro or a venture capitalist. He was just a guy with a skill doing his job, and yet, the gold equivalent of his 1910 income earned him more than 99% of all individuals today.</p>
  455.  
  456.  
  457.  
  458. <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Even a Telegraph Operator Was Rich by Today&#8217;s Standards</h4>
  459.  
  460.  
  461.  
  462. <p>There were only about 150 American women working in the Canal Zone. The highest-paid among them was a&nbsp;<strong>telegraph operator</strong>, earning&nbsp;<strong>$125/month</strong>, or&nbsp;<strong>$1,500/year</strong>—tax free, of course.</p>
  463.  
  464.  
  465.  
  466. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  467. <li><strong>$1,500 ÷ 20 = 75 oz of gold</strong></li>
  468.  
  469.  
  470.  
  471. <li>At today&#8217;s price of $3,000/oz, that&#8217;s <strong>$225,000/year</strong></li>
  472. </ul>
  473.  
  474.  
  475.  
  476. <p>Compare that to a hypothetical modern equivalent—let&#8217;s say a mid-skill, technical support desk job paying $45,000/year before tax:</p>
  477.  
  478.  
  479.  
  480. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0faa4e7-53f0-46ec-8eb0-dbb9f185e41a_691x157.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='691'%20height='157'%20viewBox=%270%200%20691%20157%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" class="tf_svg_lazy" width="691" height="157" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0faa4e7-53f0-46ec-8eb0-dbb9f185e41a_691x157.png" alt="" title=""/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0faa4e7-53f0-46ec-8eb0-dbb9f185e41a_691x157.png" alt="" title=""/></noscript></a></figure>
  481.  
  482.  
  483.  
  484. <p><br>The decline in a role like this, for some reason, seems even more shocking than with Mr. Junior Engineer. <strong>Today&#8217;s equivalent role earns 84% less real wealth</strong> than it did in 1910.</p>
  485.  
  486.  
  487.  
  488. <p>By today’s standards this telegraph operator would be extremely well off. Her gold-backed dollar income then would easily put her ahead of 95% of Americans today.</p>
  489.  
  490.  
  491.  
  492. <p>According to a 2024 Bankrate survey, the average American believes they need to earn approximately&nbsp;<strong>$186,000 per year</strong>&nbsp;to live comfortably &#8211; in the ballpark of what Ms. Telegraph Operator earned in 1910.</p>
  493.  
  494.  
  495.  
  496. <p>And yet, the median annual income for full-time workers, which stands at about $79,000. Plenty of Americans are feeling the pinch and far too many are flat broke.</p>
  497.  
  498.  
  499.  
  500. <h4 class="wp-block-heading">So What Happened?</h4>
  501.  
  502.  
  503.  
  504. <p>Two massive changes gutted the American middle class:</p>
  505.  
  506.  
  507.  
  508. <h4 class="wp-block-heading">1.&nbsp;<strong>The Federal Income Tax (1913)</strong></h4>
  509.  
  510.  
  511.  
  512. <p>Before 1913, Americans kept every dollar they earned. Afterward, the government took an ever-growing share. What began as a small tax on the rich is now a mechanism to extract wealth from almost everyone who works.</p>
  513.  
  514.  
  515.  
  516. <h4 class="wp-block-heading">2.&nbsp;<strong>The End of Gold for Americans (1933)</strong></h4>
  517.  
  518.  
  519.  
  520. <p>In 1933, FDR made it illegal for Americans to own or redeem gold. Overnight, people lost access to the one form of money that couldn&#8217;t be manipulated. From that point on, the dollar became a fiat instrument—its value determined by political convenience, not economic discipline.</p>
  521.  
  522.  
  523.  
  524. <h4 class="wp-block-heading">Measuring the Hollowing Out</h4>
  525.  
  526.  
  527.  
  528. <p>Using gold as the yardstick makes the theft obvious:</p>
  529.  
  530.  
  531.  
  532. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  533. <li>A junior engineer in 1910 earned <strong>150 oz of gold</strong></li>
  534.  
  535.  
  536.  
  537. <li>Today, he earns <strong>18.7 oz</strong></li>
  538.  
  539.  
  540.  
  541. <li>A telegraph operator earned <strong>75 oz</strong></li>
  542.  
  543.  
  544.  
  545. <li>Her modern equivalent earns <strong>12 oz</strong></li>
  546. </ul>
  547.  
  548.  
  549.  
  550. <p>These weren&#8217;t executives or tycoons. They were skilled professionals and civil servants. Today, the same careers pay a&nbsp;<strong>fraction of the real wealth</strong>, and most of it is taxed, inflated, or regulated away.</p>
  551.  
  552.  
  553.  
  554. <h4 class="wp-block-heading">This Wasn&#8217;t an Accident</h4>
  555.  
  556.  
  557.  
  558. <p>People like to blame capitalism or globalization. But that&#8217;s not the root cause. The decline began when we transitioned from:</p>
  559.  
  560.  
  561.  
  562. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  563. <li><strong>Sound money to fiat money</strong></li>
  564.  
  565.  
  566.  
  567. <li><strong>Voluntary savings to forced taxation</strong></li>
  568.  
  569.  
  570.  
  571. <li><strong>A culture of independence to one of managed dependence</strong></li>
  572. </ul>
  573.  
  574.  
  575.  
  576. <p>The system didn&#8217;t fail. It evolved to serve different masters—and the productive class has been footing the bill ever since.</p>
  577.  
  578.  
  579.  
  580. <p>We weren&#8217;t always this poor.</p>
  581.  
  582.  
  583.  
  584. <p>We were made this poor—by law, by design, and by a monetary system built on fiction.</p>
  585.  
  586.  
  587.  
  588. <p>If we want to reverse the damage, we need to start by recognizing how much was taken—and how little of it was ever honestly debated.</p>
  589.  
  590.  
  591.  
  592. <p>Best,</p>
  593.  
  594.  
  595.  
  596. <p>Matt Smith</p>
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  604. <title>Republicans Have One Chance to Reform Medicaid, They Will Blow It</title>
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  615. <p>Republicans, including Trump, won’t fix anything if it costs votes. Ass Backward Logic from the Wall Street Journal Check out the opening gambit in the WSJ article on&#160;The Politics of Medicaid Reform If Republicans are too timid, costs will expand and Democrats will benefit&#160;at the ballot box. Congress has an opportunity to reform Medicaid, the [&#8230;]</p>
  616. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/republicans-have-one-chance-to-reform-medicaid-they-will-blow-it/">Republicans Have One Chance to Reform Medicaid, They Will Blow It</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  619.  
  620.  
  621. <p><strong><em>Republicans, including Trump, won’t fix anything if it costs votes.</em></strong></p>
  622.  
  623.  
  624.  
  625. <p><strong>Ass Backward Logic from the Wall Street Journal</strong></p>
  626.  
  627.  
  628.  
  629. <p>Check out the opening gambit in the WSJ article on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-politics-of-medicaid-reform-healthcare-welfare-government-policy-03fceff7?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Politics of Medicaid Reform</a></p>
  630.  
  631.  
  632.  
  633. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  634. <p><em>If Republicans are too timid, costs will expand and Democrats will benefit&nbsp;at the ballot box.</em></p>
  635.  
  636.  
  637.  
  638. <p>Congress has an opportunity to reform Medicaid, the nation’s third-largest, and most flawed, entitlement program. Done right, reform could protect the vulnerable, promote private coverage and save hundreds of billions of dollars. Done wrong, it won’t reduce federal spending and will hurt Republicans at the ballot box by making more voters dependent on government welfare.</p>
  639.  
  640.  
  641.  
  642. <p>Medicaid’s financing is fundamentally broken. Because of ObamaCare, the federal government pays $9 for every $1 of state spending on able-bodied working-age adults, compared with roughly $1.33 for pregnant women and disabled children. That incentive pushes states to favor healthy adults over the vulnerable in enrollment and access to providers and better services.</p>
  643.  
  644.  
  645.  
  646. <p>States also use mechanisms such as the Medicaid provider tax to distort federal-state fiscal responsibility. States tax hospitals and insurers, then use that revenue to increase Medicaid payments back to the same entities. These inflated payments trigger higher federal matching funds. The result: States recycle money through the system and extract substantial federal money with little real state contribution.</p>
  647.  
  648.  
  649.  
  650. <p>To cover their 10% share of ObamaCare expansion costs, many states rely on provider-tax schemes—creating no incentive to spend responsibly and undermining the federal-state Medicaid partnership. Some states, such as California, use these mechanisms to extend Medicaid to illegal immigrants, shifting the cost to federal taxpayers.</p>
  651.  
  652.  
  653.  
  654. <p>Ten Republican-led states resisted ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion and kept Medicaid’s focus on the most vulnerable. Low taxes and limited welfare have attracted people to move to these red states, which include Florida, South Carolina and Texas.</p>
  655.  
  656.  
  657.  
  658. <p>But if Republicans enact modest changes—particularly work requirements for able-bodied adults to receive benefits—without fixing Medicaid’s core financing problems, Republican governors will have political cover to tap into the federal Medicaid money they have left on the table by not expanding. If Congress fails to reduce ObamaCare’s 90% reimbursement and doesn’t limit Medicaid financing gimmicks, expect a wave of new expansions blessed by a bill passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President Trump.</p>
  659.  
  660.  
  661.  
  662. <p>If Congress doesn’t enact these structural reforms, the Medicaid-industrial complex will collude with the states for richer payments funded through higher debt, inflation and taxes. In some states, Medicaid payments to hospitals now approach or exceed twice the Medicare rate, which could threaten seniors’ care. And without reform, states will continue to prioritize healthy working-age adults ahead of children and the disabled. Meanwhile, Republicans will have missed an opportunity to restore Medicaid’s core mission: providing a safety net for the vulnerable, not corporate welfare for the healthcare industry.</p>
  663.  
  664.  
  665.  
  666. <p>Republicans who ran on reining in Washington’s excesses and defending the needy shouldn’t preserve Medicaid’s financing inequities and money-laundering schemes. Fix the incentives now or watch federal spending—and Democratic turnout—soar on the back of a program conservatives failed to reform when they had the chance.</p>
  667. </blockquote>
  668.  
  669.  
  670.  
  671. <p><strong>What a Hoot</strong></p>
  672.  
  673.  
  674.  
  675. <p>The authors are correct on what ails Medicaid. But the lead sentence, “If Republicans are too timid, costs will expand and Democrats will benefit&nbsp;at the ballot box,” is ass backwards.</p>
  676.  
  677.  
  678.  
  679. <p>Republicans don’t want the blame for fixing Medicaid.</p>
  680.  
  681.  
  682.  
  683. <p>Look no further than the Newsweek column&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-warn-trump-admin-about-medicaid-cuts-2068228" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Republicans Warn Trump Admin About Medicaid Cuts</a></p>
  684.  
  685.  
  686.  
  687. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  688. <p>As Republicans debate how to rein in federal spending following President Donald Trump’s latest round of tax cuts, a proposed shift in Medicaid funding is drawing resistance: not from Democrats, but from within the GOP.</p>
  689.  
  690.  
  691.  
  692. <p>Moderate and battleground-district Republicans, including Representatives Mike Lawler of New York and Don Bacon of Nebraska, are publicly warning party leaders not to go too far in overhauling the safety net.</p>
  693.  
  694.  
  695.  
  696. <p>The proposal at the center of the debate is known as a&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5280452-medicaid-spending-caps-republicans/" target="_blank">“per capita cap,</a>” a policy that would limit federal Medicaid payments to a set amount per enrollee. Though supporters argue it wouldn’t technically cut benefits, critics say it would gradually shift costs to states and potentially reduce access to care.</p>
  697.  
  698.  
  699.  
  700. <p><em>GOP leaders say no final decision has been made, and the party remains divided. Lawmakers in politically vulnerable seats are warning that any proposal perceived as a cut to Medicaid could be harmful in 2024 swing districts</em>.</p>
  701.  
  702.  
  703.  
  704. <p>Representatives Lawler and Bacon are part of a loose coalition pushing leadership to focus on other cost-cutting measures, such as fraud reduction and administrative streamlining, that wouldn’t reduce access to care.</p>
  705.  
  706.  
  707.  
  708. <p>In addition to Lawler and Bacon, other Republicans have signaled caution.</p>
  709.  
  710.  
  711.  
  712. <p>Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey said he would support “guardrails” on Medicaid growth but opposes cutting the 50 percent federal match for traditional Medicaid.</p>
  713.  
  714.  
  715.  
  716. <p>House Speaker Mike Johnson has not publicly committed to including the caps in a budget deal, and negotiations are expected to continue through the summer.</p>
  717.  
  718.  
  719.  
  720. <p>“Some Republicans are growing concerned – and rightfully so,” Beene said. “If their state is dependent on that funding, any cap put on federal Medicaid spending could create a domino effect that would hurt beneficiaries in their state.”</p>
  721.  
  722.  
  723.  
  724. <p>Thompson said the states that rely most heavily on Medicaid expansion are Republican strongholds.</p>
  725. </blockquote>
  726.  
  727.  
  728.  
  729. <p><strong>Buying Votes for a “Big Beautiful Bill”</strong></p>
  730.  
  731.  
  732.  
  733. <p>Trump will buy as many votes as it takes to get support for his “big beautiful bill”.</p>
  734.  
  735.  
  736.  
  737. <p>Number one on the table is restoration of State and Local Tax (SALT) deductions. This benefits Democrats and Republicans in Big Blue states, especially New York.</p>
  738.  
  739.  
  740.  
  741. <p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.crfb.org/blogs/weakening-salt-cap-would-be-costly-mistake" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Committee for a Responsible Budget&nbsp;</a>estimates full restoration of SALT would cost $920 billion over 10 years.</p>
  742.  
  743.  
  744.  
  745. <p>The TCJA tax extension will cost $3.9 trillion.</p>
  746.  
  747.  
  748.  
  749. <p>Why stop there?</p>
  750.  
  751.  
  752.  
  753. <p>Trump wants to but more votes with no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security benefits, and new deductions for interest on auto loans.</p>
  754.  
  755.  
  756.  
  757. <p><strong>No DOGE to the Rescue</strong></p>
  758.  
  759.  
  760.  
  761. <p>To pay for all of this DOGE has come up with $150 billion in alleged savings of which only about $12 billion is real.</p>
  762.  
  763.  
  764.  
  765. <p>For discussion, please see&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://mishtalk.com/economics/how-much-money-has-doge-really-saved-and-where-will-it-go/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Much Money Has DOGE Really Saved, and Where Will it Go?</a></strong></p>
  766.  
  767.  
  768.  
  769. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  770. <p>Let’s do some fact checks on DOGE claims and reality.</p>
  771. </blockquote>
  772.  
  773.  
  774.  
  775. <p><strong>Trump Promises $1 trillion in Defense Spending for Next Year</strong></p>
  776.  
  777.  
  778.  
  779. <p>Also note&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://mishtalk.com/economics/trump-promises-1-trillion-in-defense-spending-for-next-year/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Trump Promises $1 trillion in Defense Spending for Next Year</a></strong></p>
  780.  
  781.  
  782.  
  783. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  784. <p>Even bigger budget deficits are now in store due to the first $1 trillion defense budget.</p>
  785. </blockquote>
  786.  
  787.  
  788.  
  789. <p>Rather than do the right things, Republicans will buy whatever votes they need to pass a budget-breaking monstrosity.</p>
  790.  
  791.  
  792.  
  793. <p>Meanwhile, the lies that it will pay for itself continue along with praise from the cult.</p>
  794.  
  795.  
  796.  
  797. <p>For discussion of the truly absurd, please see&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://mishtalk.com/economics/lutnick-says-tariffs-can-eliminate-the-irs-and-balance-the-budget/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lutnick Says Tariffs Can Eliminate the IRS and Balance the Budget</a></strong></p>
  798.  
  799.  
  800.  
  801. <p>Trump won’t drain the swamp. He is the swamp willing to tell whatever lies he needs to get his big beautiful bill passed.</p>
  802.  
  803.  
  804.  
  805. <p>This post originated on&nbsp;<a href="https://mishtalk.com/economics/republicans-have-one-chance-to-reform-medicaid-they-will-blow-it/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">MishTalk.Com</a></p>
  806.  
  807.  
  808.  
  809. <p>Thanks for Tuning In!</p>
  810.  
  811.  
  812.  
  813. <p><strong>Mish</strong></p>
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  821. <title>Will Crypto Values Survive the Regulatory Wave?</title>
  822. <link>https://www.activistpost.com/will-crypto-values-survive-the-regulatory-wave/</link>
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  825. <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
  826. <category><![CDATA[Crypto]]></category>
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  828. <category><![CDATA[Ivo Entchev]]></category>
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  832. <p>Ahead of the People’s Regulatory Roundtable at Consensus 2025, six leading crypto lawyers discuss whether core crypto principles, like decentralization and privacy, will be included in upcoming legislation and regulation. It is often said that crypto is part technology and part religion. As such, it is hardly surprising that the unfolding regulatory overhaul has been [&#8230;]</p>
  833. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/will-crypto-values-survive-the-regulatory-wave/">Will Crypto Values Survive the Regulatory Wave?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  836.  
  837.  
  838. <p><strong><em>Ahead of the People’s Regulatory Roundtable at Consensus 2025, six leading crypto lawyers discuss whether core crypto principles, like decentralization and privacy, will be included in upcoming legislation and regulation.</em></strong></p>
  839.  
  840.  
  841.  
  842. <p><em>It is often said that crypto is part technology and part religion. As such, it is hardly surprising that the unfolding regulatory overhaul has been accompanied both by vigorous soul searching related to the state of crypto’s (often anti-establishment) core values and palpable excitement over potential new use cases.</em></p>
  843.  
  844.  
  845.  
  846. <p><em>With the blessing of </em>CoinDesk<em>, I asked the panelists of our upcoming people’s <a href="https://consensus2025.coindesk.com/agenda/event/-crypto-regulation-lawyer-roundatable-147" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">regulatory roundtable at Consensus 2025</a>—each of them crypto veterans and advocates for sensible regulation—about safeguarding crypto values in regulatory reform and about the innovation that new regulation is making possible.</em></p>
  847.  
  848.  
  849.  
  850. <p><strong>You can catch Kayvan Sadeghi, Connor Spelliscy, Lewis Cohen, Michelle Ann Gitlitz and David Adlerstein speaking at the People’s Regulatory Roundtable on May 14 at 10 a.m. on the Spotlight Stage. The roundtable will be moderated by Ivo Entchev. If you would like to submit a question ahead of time, please email it to opinion@coindesk.com.</strong></p>
  851.  
  852.  
  853.  
  854. <p><em>This is what they had to say.</em></p>
  855.  
  856.  
  857.  
  858. <p><strong>Which core crypto values are most important to you and why? How can we ensure that they are respected by regulatory reform?</strong></p>
  859.  
  860.  
  861.  
  862. <p><strong>KAYVAN</strong>: Individual freedom and sovereignty are core values. Privacy and decentralization are important largely as a means to achieving that sovereignty, which can otherwise be undermined through surveillance and centralized points of control.</p>
  863.  
  864.  
  865.  
  866. <p>To ensure that these values are respected, it is helpful to reframe the conversation to focus on the ways in which new technology can achieve the objectives of the existing laws, not just differently, but better. For example, many financial regulations are designed to prevent abuse by those with control over other people’s assets. But as long as humans hold that power, the risk of corruption and greed will persist and the same problems will recur.</p>
  867.  
  868.  
  869.  
  870. <p>Heavily regulated intermediaries is one path, but removing the human intermediaries altogether can eliminate the root cause. By analogy, one can curtail drunk-driving with stricter alcohol laws and more frequent roadside checkpoints, but those are band-aids on a problem that can be eliminated with autonomous vehicles.</p>
  871.  
  872.  
  873.  
  874. <p>There will be growing pains as new technology is battle-tested, and the risks will look different from the risks of human intermediaries, but the values can be preserved by focusing the discussion around the use of technology to deliver better solutions to problems that the law is already trying to solve.</p>
  875.  
  876.  
  877.  
  878. <p><strong>CONNOR</strong>: Blockchain technology can provide users with unprecedented levels of transparency, reliability, and security—as long as policy frameworks allow it to flourish by incentivizing decentralization.</p>
  879.  
  880.  
  881.  
  882. <p>If properly regulated, blockchain projects will continue to decentralize, giving users greater control over their finances and digital assets, reducing reliance on overreaching institutions. Beyond financial use cases, decentralized blockchain networks function as infrastructure for a variety of applications that provide users with more autonomy over their lives, including, for example: social media platforms that allow users to own and control their data, community-owned platforms that leverage decentralized governance to compete with Big Tech, and digital identity protocols necessary for users to protect their identity online from sophisticated AI-enabled bots.</p>
  883.  
  884.  
  885.  
  886. <p>We believe that focusing on control is the most effective framing option for defining decentralization under law. Meeting a test for control would significantly reduce information asymmetries stemming from the control of a blockchain’s token, justifying lower regulatory burdens or exemptions under securities laws. We recommended specific control principles to implement in our&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="https://thedrcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/DRC-Flourishing-v2.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener">Designing Blockchain for a Flourishing Industry</a>&nbsp;paper we published this week, incorporating feedback from 40+ teams, founders, operators, lawyers, and policymakers.</p>
  887.  
  888.  
  889.  
  890. <p><strong>LEWIS</strong>: When we talk about core values, I think about the values of those users and builders who are attracted to the crypto space, rather than the values of a technology as such. These individuals, in my experience, are attracted by many things that certainly include personal sovereignty and decentralization, but are by no means limited to these features.</p>
  891.  
  892.  
  893.  
  894. <p>What means the most to me and has driven me forward for the last 10 years, is working with, and serving the needs of, that incredibly diverse community of users and builders &#8211; fiercely dedicated to innovation and developing a new “Internet of Value.” We can never forget that, at its heart, “crypto” is a system of tools built from the ground up, not by large corporations, but by individuals contributing their time, energy, and creativity to help make the world a more connected and inclusive place.</p>
  895.  
  896.  
  897.  
  898. <p><strong>MICHELLE</strong>: Decentralization is the most important value to me because the distribution of power, control, and decision-making across a network rather than in the hands of central authorities enables true digital ownership and freedom to transact. Where there is centralization and control, we need legal and regulatory safeguards that are reasonably tailored to the particular intricacies of the blockchain-based systems. Ensuring decentralization is respected requires legislators and regulators to truly understand the underlying infrastructure so they can craft rules that protect consumers from loss of funds or value and to safeguard against financial crimes.</p>
  899.  
  900.  
  901.  
  902. <p><strong>DAVID</strong>: I’ve been a corporate lawyer for over 20 years and am an ardent believer in free markets. The concept of recognized rights in alienable property, the concept that entrepreneurs should be free to test ideas in the marketplace, and the concept of “freedom of contract”—that consenting adults should be free to enter into exchanges of goods and services as they desire—are all at the heart of U.S. corporate law (and that of other liberal democracies). These concepts are quintessential crypto values.</p>
  903.  
  904.  
  905.  
  906. <p>For all crypto’s novelty, the paradigm of needing reasonable regulatory safeguards around a new technology is an old one. Commercial airplanes were once new tech, and for good reason we have regulations to ensure things like pilot training and safety standards, but these days you can pretty much fly anywhere whenever you want to.</p>
  907.  
  908.  
  909.  
  910. <p>The same paradigm should apply here. I believe it is possible for regulators to preserve openness to new software-based business models and organizational forms, while reasonably tailoring safeguards to prevent things like financial crises and terror financing.</p>
  911.  
  912.  
  913.  
  914. <p><strong>Is regulation opening the door to new and valuable business models/products?</strong></p>
  915.  
  916.  
  917.  
  918. <p><strong>KAYVAN</strong>: Sensible regulation could have profound implications for any business driven by community engagement and network effects. Many technologies are lowering the barrier for individuals and small teams to generate and distribute content in competition with larger centralized companies. Effective regulation can further empower individuals by paving the way for good actors to have more direct access to allocation of capital, and for a broader mainstream audience to participate in the ecosystem and benefit from the network effects of the communities in which they participate.</p>
  919.  
  920.  
  921.  
  922. <p><strong>CONNOR</strong>: To be determined! We’ve seen a lot more mainstream and institutional interest in blockchain technology now that it appears the space will have clearer parameters as laid out in legislation like a market structure and stablecoin bill but until those bills pass, I think many ambitious and exciting blockchain projects will continue to have a problem scaling. I’m optimistic we’ll be seeing more impactful projects launch in areas like decentralized AI, digital identity, and social media. I’d also love to see legal clarity for novel organizational structures like DAOs so that those types of organizations can continue to experiment and improve; with respect to DAOs, the newly available Wyoming DUNA has proven to be a great step forward.</p>
  923.  
  924.  
  925.  
  926. <p><strong>LEWIS</strong>: The door is always open to innovation! Regulation, when it works as it should, facilitates innovation in a balanced and sustainable manner, but is reactive to new business models that the community adopts and actually uses.</p>
  927.  
  928.  
  929.  
  930. <p>I think of regulations in their most ideal form as similar to the development of car travel. Innovators developed the automobile—“horseless carriages” which initially traveled along muddy trails intended for a very different kind of transportation. Seeing this innovation, the government paved and painted lines on roads. Yes, this constrained drivers to some extent, but it also allowed them to travel more safely and go much faster. It was the private sector that took the lead when it came to automobile innovation, designing new kinds of cars with new technologies that travel on those roads.</p>
  931.  
  932.  
  933.  
  934. <p>No matter how well intended at the time, any regulation that seeks to put its finger on the scale and promote one type of technology approach over another usually winds up backfiring in some way and distorting the market. Innovators will continue to create, and regulators should continue to watch over and adapt to these innovations, not lead them.</p>
  935.  
  936.  
  937.  
  938. <p><strong>MICHELLE</strong>: I’ve been in the crypto industry for the last 10 years and have worked mostly in heavily regulated areas dealing with financial integrity and consumer protection. I’ve seen new business models and products such as stablecoins proliferate in the ecosystem in the absence of regulatory clarity. Thoughtful regulation enables wider adoption of innovative crypto products with greater confidence by providing clarity to developers and trust amongst users. I’ve also seen more projects in the crypto industry prioritize compliance compared to a decade ago.</p>
  939.  
  940.  
  941.  
  942. <p>As a result, there is a significant opportunity for RegTech solutions to build compliance tooling and processes. We do this every day at&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.changeagents.co/" rel="noreferrer noopener">Change Agents</a>&nbsp;where we are on a mission to streamline workflows, reduce costs and unlock efficiencies using our secure AI-powered automation first platform. Traditional financial institutions often operate on decades-old platforms that were not designed to interface with modern technologies. They struggle with fragmented data stored in disparate systems and formats. Jurisdictions maintain varying approaches to regulation, further complicating these issues.</p>
  943.  
  944.  
  945.  
  946. <p>Crypto platforms inherently facilitate compliance because blockchain technology enables transparent recordkeeping, more automated compliance checks and immutable audit trails. Crypto platforms are also developed with API-first approaches, making integration with RegTech products significantly more straightforward. Finally, crypto companies can oftentimes automate regulatory compliance functions directly from their transaction data rather than manually aggregating data from multiple systems, increasing delays and creating the potential for error. Ultimately, these factors give crypto companies a competitive edge over TradFi because they can better reduce compliance costs while also providing more accurate information to regulators.</p>
  947.  
  948.  
  949.  
  950. <p><strong>DAVID</strong>: There are many powerful narratives within crypto, beginning with Bitcoin as a resilient store of value now over 16 years old borderline ancient for technology these days. But I’m particularly excited about stablecoins and tokenization of real-world assets. The potential impact of having a nexus between capital and a fully composable, Turing-complete global computer is not widely understood.</p>
  951.  
  952.  
  953.  
  954. <p>Money is the very lifeblood of commerce, and things like instantaneous payments with little friction and the ability of the unbanked to use digital dollar equivalents, to name just a couple of examples, are only the beginning. Stablecoins are already fairly popular, but impending U.S. regulation will open the door to much more widespread usage. It’s critical to get stablecoin regulation right, with a particular emphasis on minimizing run risk, preserving the ability to combat illicit finance, and promoting interoperability.</p>
  955.  
  956.  
  957.  
  958. <p>Note: The views expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of CoinDesk, Inc. or its owners and affiliates.</p>
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  966. <title>From One Fake Left-wing Hysteria to the Next</title>
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  970. <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  977. <p>From Russiagate to Harvard scandals, the left’s decade-long hysteria machine spins on—loud, fact-light, and void of any serious plan for America’s future. The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream. For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the [&#8230;]</p>
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  981.  
  982.  
  983. <p><em>From Russiagate to Harvard scandals, the left’s decade-long hysteria machine spins on—loud, fact-light, and void of any serious plan for America’s future.</em></p>
  984.  
  985.  
  986.  
  987. <p>The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream.</p>
  988.  
  989.  
  990.  
  991. <p>For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style, we were assured by the Wall Street Journal news reporters and the liberal press that Trump had either a) guaranteed an inevitable recession, b) engineered a losing trade war he likely regretted, c) crashed the stock market, d) lost his once majority favorability ratings, e) mostly had a failed first 100 days, or f) all of the above.</p>
  992.  
  993.  
  994.  
  995. <p>Some of us thought these diagnoses and prognoses were absurd. How in mediis rebus, during a radical counterrevolution never quite seen before, could anyone issue such bleak predictions? Would these same observers have said the U.S. was doomed to lose World War II after the bleak first five months of mostly failure in the Pacific, or North Africa, after the utter U.S. army disaster at the Kasserine Pass?</p>
  996.  
  997.  
  998.  
  999. <p>When the Biden administration compiled two consecutive quarters of negative GDP—the supposedly classic definition of a recession—most of these same pundits assured us that the data was meaningless and irrelevant. The same left-wing media throng insisted Biden was in his cognitive prime until hours before he abdicated from the ticket under pressure. They swore to us that Robert Mueller’s “walls were closing in” on Donald Trump, who would legitimately go to jail, buried by 93 lawfare indictments.</p>
  1000.  
  1001.  
  1002.  
  1003. <p>As for their polls showing that Trump was all but through after three months in office, almost all of them were not just off in the 2016 presidential race, but again in 2020. And given the chronic temptation to warp polls to create Democratic momentum and fundraising, they rigged their polls yet again in 2024—even when they knew in disgrace that they were ruining their brand. A former Harris campaign official just admitted that internal polls never showed Harris ahead—even as the majority of polls predicted her victory.</p>
  1004.  
  1005.  
  1006.  
  1007. <p>So why would anyone believe any of these people? Take the now-defunded Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Its recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll assured us that 45 percent of the public gave Trump an F for his first 100 days, with only 42 percent expressing approval of his job so far.</p>
  1008.  
  1009.  
  1010.  
  1011. <p>But this is the same bunch that also assured us in its final authoritative 2024 election poll, on the very eve before the voting, that Kamala Harris would win the race by 4 points—a lead proverbially “outside the margin of error.” (The next day, she lost the popular vote by 1.5 percent or 2,284,952 votes and the Electoral College by 312-226). The public broadcasting polling partnership was off 5.5 points, perhaps suggesting that it wished to aid the Harris campaign more than either adhering to professional and ethical norms or fearing to lose what little was left of its reputation.</p>
  1012.  
  1013.  
  1014.  
  1015. <p>As soon as the Washington Post and the New York Times issued their dismal Trump bias polls, observers quickly pointed out they had, by intent, vastly underpolled those who voted for Trump in 2024. In contrast, the polls with the best 2024 records had Trump’s 100-day approval ratings near even or positive: Rasmussen was 50-49%, and the joint national surveys by Insider Advantage and Trafalgar Group had Trump up at 100 days, 46-44%.</p>
  1016.  
  1017.  
  1018.  
  1019. <p>As far as the supposed economic and stock meltdown, the March and April monthly economic reports showed that job growth was not only impressive but well above market expectations, with special emphasis on permanent rather than part-time jobs, even as the number of federal workers went down.</p>
  1020.  
  1021.  
  1022.  
  1023. <p>News of massive, multi-trillion-dollar investments and relocations to the U.S. continues. Far from having all the pressure levers in the tariff standoffs, China is starting to realize that the U.S. market is still the center of the world, while its own autocratic party dictatorship—again contrary to pundits’ warnings—is far more vulnerable to rising popular dissent than is a constitutional republic like the U.S.</p>
  1024.  
  1025.  
  1026.  
  1027. <p>Inflation in March and April either did not increase or, in fact, declined. Corporate profits were solid. Energy costs went down. Now that we have actually passed Trump’s first 100 days, where is the crashed stock market that supposedly signaled the recession on our doorstep?</p>
  1028.  
  1029.  
  1030.  
  1031. <p>The Standard &amp; Poor 500 is back at the level of March 10, roughly where it was before the hysteria—and 12 percent up from a year ago. By May 2, both the Dow and S&amp;P indices showed the longest continued gains in over 20 years. The Dow is now about where it was in September and October before the election—at levels that had not so long ago made investors giddy.</p>
  1032.  
  1033.  
  1034.  
  1035. <p>The media-academy nexus is also in hysterics over Trump’s threats of suspending federal funding to higher education unless it makes reforms consistent with Supreme Court decisions and Department of Education guidelines.</p>
  1036.  
  1037.  
  1038.  
  1039. <p>Many of us have warned campuses that it would be wiser to compromise, given the public would soon learn of what they had been doing for decades—and would be unpleasantly surprised. After all, private, multibillion-dollar endowed elite campuses took billions of dollars in easy federal money—despite endemic anti-Semitism, flagrant flaunting of U.S. civil rights laws and court decisions by continuing to use racial and gender biases, lucrative but unsavory financial partnerships with illiberal regimes of the Middle East and communist China, spiraling annual tuition costs exceeding the annual rate of inflation, 40-60 percent surcharges and overhead gouging of federal grants, and nonexistence of First Amendment protections for visiting speakers and lecturers, and on and on.</p>
  1040.  
  1041.  
  1042.  
  1043. <p>No matter. As soon as Harvard vowed that it would rally its elite brethren campuses against the administration, news predictably began to leak about the culpability and exposure of the real Harvard. Why did it only now and so suddenly rush to end its sister-campus relationship with the terrorist-supporting Birzeit University on the West Bank, or why now replace directors of its radical Center for Middle Eastern Studies program—in a fashion it never had previously dared even after the massacres of October 7?</p>
  1044.  
  1045.  
  1046.  
  1047. <p>Then, news of a joint China-Harvard program abroad suddenly surfaced. Allegedly, Harvard had aided members of what some have called a Chinese “paramilitary organization,” despite that group previously being sanctioned for its role in the Chinese state violence conducted against the Uyghurs—a fact that apparently did not surface publicly or perhaps even particularly bother any of the usually hypersensitive and quick-to-demonstrate Harvard students and faculty.</p>
  1048.  
  1049.  
  1050.  
  1051. <p>Shortly thereafter, a comprehensive Harvard in-house anti-Semitism report surfaced, documenting in detail the routine harassment of and threats to Harvard Jewish students. In truth, even if it wished to, Harvard now could not control its out-of-control and institutionalized anti-Semitism. It is a bane that Harvard has systematically ignored. It permeates the entire campus and is deeply embedded in the university’s Middle East Studies DEI architecture and recruitment of illiberal foreign students from dictatorial regimes.</p>
  1052.  
  1053.  
  1054.  
  1055. <p>The Harvard Law Review (currently being investigated by the Department of Education’s civil rights division) just bestowed a $65,000 fellowship to law student Ibrahim Bhramar. What did Bhramar do to earn such Harvard lucre?</p>
  1056.  
  1057.  
  1058.  
  1059. <p>Apparently, he was rewarded either for or despite attacking a Harvard Business School Jewish student during one of the recent anti-Israel campus protests, racking up misdemeanor criminal charges in the process. The prosecutor had noted that Bhramar had conducted “a hands-on assault and battery…and actual interpersonal violence” against the student. Rewarding an anti-Semitic attacker with $65,000 says it all. In 2024, hundreds of Harvard students and faculty disrupted their own graduation, commencing with walkouts and shouts of “free Palestine.”</p>
  1060.  
  1061.  
  1062.  
  1063. <p>In sum, despite the Harvard hysteria, it quietly knows what it has been doing, what the stakes are should it lose $2-9 billion in ongoing taxpayer support, and why it would not like full disclosure to the public of both its many excesses and lapses. So, if it is smart, Harvard will likely quietly seek a compromise with the Trump administration.</p>
  1064.  
  1065.  
  1066.  
  1067. <p>Finally, we are watching a full Democratic/left-wing meltdown.</p>
  1068.  
  1069.  
  1070.  
  1071. <p>Its puerile anti-Trump antics have gone from the clownish to the obscene and violent.</p>
  1072.  
  1073.  
  1074.  
  1075. <p>What is the point of disrupting a presidential congressional address by screaming and cane shaking, or of a silly 25-hour pseudo-filibuster? Who believes that smutty sh*t and f*ck congressional videos, or foul-mouthed threats to Trump and Elon Musk (e.g., “dipsh*t,” a**hole”) will win over Independents?</p>
  1076.  
  1077.  
  1078.  
  1079. <p>What is the strategic logic behind Democratic governors and senators threatening to cause havoc at Republican officials’ town halls, or to ignite “mass protests” and “disruptions,” so that “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace”?</p>
  1080.  
  1081.  
  1082.  
  1083. <p>Does anyone believe that yet a third impeachment of Trump will ensure a Democratic midterm victory?</p>
  1084.  
  1085.  
  1086.  
  1087. <p>Or is the correct left-wing playbook to champion a motley array of assassins, spousal abusers, and gang members? Is it wiser then to either laud or ignore attacks on Tesla dealers, owners, and chargers, or wink and nod at blatantly anti-Semitic demonstrations and protests?</p>
  1088.  
  1089.  
  1090.  
  1091. <p>Is there anything taboo for the hysterical left?</p>
  1092.  
  1093.  
  1094.  
  1095. <p>Yes—it cannot offer the country a simple “Democratic Contract for America”—listing its own solutions to the nation’s existential crises.</p>
  1096.  
  1097.  
  1098.  
  1099. <p>There is not a single Democratic blueprint of how to address a $2 trillion budget deficit, $3 billion in daily interest payments, $37 trillion of national debt, or a $1.2 trillion annual trade deficit.</p>
  1100.  
  1101.  
  1102.  
  1103. <p>There is no post-Biden corrective agenda to deal with his legacy of 12 million recent illegal aliens, added to the existing 20 million current unlawful immigrants.</p>
  1104.  
  1105.  
  1106.  
  1107. <p>Not a single Democratic senator, representative, or party official has put forth any plan to end the Biden-era conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.</p>
  1108.  
  1109.  
  1110.  
  1111. <p>Nor will they even discuss the challenge of biological males wrecking women’s sporting events, institutionalized campus anti-Semitism, or unlawful race-based chauvinism.</p>
  1112.  
  1113.  
  1114.  
  1115. <p>On all these matters, the Democrats and their leftist supporters have offered no counter-proposals, no alternate agendas, and no unique solutions to the nation’s problems—other than boring, profanity-ridden venom and tired performance-art buffoonery.</p>
  1116.  
  1117.  
  1118.  
  1119. <p>Reliance on warped polls, untrustworthy and biased reporting, and media sensationalism will not help such poverty of thought and character.</p>
  1120.  
  1121.  
  1122.  
  1123. <p>Obscene, hysterical, and clueless is no way to appeal to Americans, Democrats.</p>
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  1131. <title>RFK Jr. mandates PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIALS for new vaccines, exposing decades of Big Pharma deception</title>
  1132. <link>https://www.activistpost.com/rfk-jr-mandates-placebo-controlled-trials-for-new-vaccines-exposing-decades-of-big-pharma-deception/</link>
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  1135. <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
  1136. <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
  1137. <category><![CDATA[Lance D Johnson]]></category>
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  1142. <p>For decades, the vaccine industry has operated in the shadows, bypassing the gold standard of science — placebo-controlled trials — to push untested, unsafe products onto the public. Now, in a historic move, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is forcing a reckoning. Under a new rule, all future vaccines must be [&#8230;]</p>
  1143. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/rfk-jr-mandates-placebo-controlled-trials-for-new-vaccines-exposing-decades-of-big-pharma-deception/">RFK Jr. mandates PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIALS for new vaccines, exposing decades of Big Pharma deception</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  1146.  
  1147.  
  1148. <p>For decades, the vaccine industry has operated in the shadows, bypassing the gold standard of science — placebo-controlled trials — <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-order-new-vaccines-undergo-placebo-controlled-testing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">to push untested, unsafe products onto the public</a>. Now, in a historic move, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is forcing a reckoning. Under a new rule, all future vaccines must be tested against a true placebo — an inert substance like saline — before approval. This bombshell decision, first reported by The Washington Post, shatters the pharmaceutical industry’s most guarded deception: the use of fake placebos to hide vaccine injuries.</p>
  1149.  
  1150.  
  1151.  
  1152. <p><strong>Key points:</strong></p>
  1153.  
  1154.  
  1155.  
  1156. <ul class="wp-block-list">
  1157. <li>HHS confirms all new vaccines must undergo placebo-controlled testing, a radical shift from past fraud.</li>
  1158.  
  1159.  
  1160.  
  1161. <li>RFK Jr. and health freedom advocates demand scientific integrity, while Pharma-funded &#8220;experts&#8221; cry foul.</li>
  1162.  
  1163.  
  1164.  
  1165. <li>Decades of corrupt vaccine testing exposed: No childhood vaccine ever tested against true placebo.</li>
  1166.  
  1167.  
  1168.  
  1169. <li>Medical establishment panics as new rule threatens to reveal vaccine injuries hidden by rigged trials.</li>
  1170. </ul>
  1171.  
  1172.  
  1173.  
  1174. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-great-vaccine-deception-how-big-pharma-rigged-the-science">The great vaccine deception: How Big Pharma rigged the science</h4>
  1175.  
  1176.  
  1177.  
  1178. <p>For years, vaccine manufacturers have <a href="https://www.allclinicaltrials.com/blog/what-are-placebo-controlled-trials" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">avoided real placebo testing</a> by using another vaccine or a toxic adjuvant-laden solution as the &#8220;control.&#8221; This fraudulent practice ensures that both groups in clinical trials receive harmful substances, masking the true rate of adverse events. As Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Senior Research Scientist Karl Jablonowski explained, this rigged system makes it impossible to determine if a new vaccine is truly safe.</p>
  1179.  
  1180.  
  1181.  
  1182. <p>Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, a leading voice for medical transparency, called the new rule &#8220;long overdue.&#8221;</p>
  1183.  
  1184.  
  1185.  
  1186. <p>&#8220;All new vaccine products and combinations of existing vaccines should be tested in large prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel group trials with long-term outcomes,&#8221; McCullough said. &#8220;This is standard for pharmaceuticals and it should be no different for vaccines.&#8221;</p>
  1187.  
  1188.  
  1189.  
  1190. <p>Yet, predictably, the medical establishment — deeply entangled with Big Pharma profits — is outraged. <em>The Washington Post</em> cited unnamed &#8220;experts&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/30/rfk-jr-vaccine-testing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">who claimed placebo testing &#8220;could limit access to vaccines&#8221; and even be &#8220;unethical.&#8221;</a></p>
  1191.  
  1192.  
  1193.  
  1194. <p>Calley Means, an adviser to Kennedy, fired back: &#8220;Why would ‘health experts’ be alarmed at conducting science on new drugs?&#8221;</p>
  1195.  
  1196.  
  1197.  
  1198. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-why-aren-t-existing-vaccines-held-to-the-same-standard">Why aren’t existing vaccines held to the same standard?</h4>
  1199.  
  1200.  
  1201.  
  1202. <p>Kennedy has long exposed a shocking truth: Not a single vaccine on the CDC’s childhood schedule was ever tested against a true placebo. Instead, they were <a href="http://vaccines.news/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">rubber-stamped through fraudulent trials</a> designed to conceal injuries.</p>
  1203.  
  1204.  
  1205.  
  1206. <p>Now, the critical question remains: Will this new rule apply to existing vaccines?</p>
  1207.  
  1208.  
  1209.  
  1210. <p>Dr. David Wohl, a Pfizer-affiliated infectious disease specialist, argued that placebo trials are &#8220;unethical&#8221; for diseases with existing vaccines—a stance that reeks of corporate protectionism. Meanwhile, Daniel O’Connor of Trial Site News suggested a &#8220;risk-based approach,&#8221; allowing placebo testing only for novel pathogens.</p>
  1211.  
  1212.  
  1213.  
  1214. <p>But why the double standard? If vaccines are as safe as claimed, <a href="http://realsciencenews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">why fear real science</a>?</p>
  1215.  
  1216.  
  1217.  
  1218. <p>The HHS has not yet clarified whether the rule will apply to COVID-19 boosters, which have been fast-tracked with minimal safety data. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary recently admitted the agency lacks sufficient evidence to approve new boosters, yet manufacturers are already pushing for 2025 formulations.</p>
  1219.  
  1220.  
  1221.  
  1222. <p>Kennedy is also pushing to remove COVID shots from the childhood schedule, citing a lack of benefit for young children. If successful, this could mark the beginning of the end for one of the most disastrous medical experiments in history.</p>
  1223.  
  1224.  
  1225.  
  1226. <p>For too long, the vaccine industry has operated above the law, shielded by corrupt regulators and a complicit media. Now, with RFK Jr. at the helm, the truth is finally breaking through.</p>
  1227.  
  1228.  
  1229.  
  1230. <p>As Mary Holland, CEO of CHD, declared: &#8220;This is a first for our country and another welcome advancement from the administration in protecting our children.&#8221;</p>
  1231.  
  1232.  
  1233.  
  1234. <p>But the battle is far from over. Will the medical-industrial complex continue to resist transparency? Or will the American people finally see the full, unvarnished truth about what’s really in their shots, and that these ingredients actually <a href="http://vaccinedamage.news/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">do more damage</a> to the body than good?</p>
  1235.  
  1236.  
  1237.  
  1238. <p><strong>Sources include:</strong></p>
  1239.  
  1240.  
  1241.  
  1242. <p><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-order-new-vaccines-undergo-placebo-controlled-testing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ChildrensHealthDefense.org</a></p>
  1243.  
  1244.  
  1245.  
  1246. <p><a href="https://www.allclinicaltrials.com/blog/what-are-placebo-controlled-trials" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AllClinicalTrials..com</a></p>
  1247.  
  1248.  
  1249.  
  1250. <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/30/rfk-jr-vaccine-testing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WashingtonPost.com</a></p>
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  1258. <title>Five recent papers show vaccine COVID vaccine harms outweigh any benefits</title>
  1259. <link>https://www.activistpost.com/five-recent-papers-show-vaccine-covid-vaccine-harms-outweigh-any-benefits/</link>
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  1262. <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  1268. <p>Don&#8217;t worry. The FDA, CDC, and Congress are never going to apologize for their mistake. One of these papers has already been rejected by 6 journals without even reading the paper! Executive summary Here are five recent papers that everyone should know about and one of my favorite older papers I haven’t written about. All [&#8230;]</p>
  1269. <p>The post <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/five-recent-papers-show-vaccine-covid-vaccine-harms-outweigh-any-benefits/">Five recent papers show vaccine COVID vaccine harms outweigh any benefits</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.activistpost.com">Activist Post</a>.</p>
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  1274. <p><em>Don&#8217;t worry. The FDA, CDC, and Congress are never going to apologize for their mistake. One of these papers has already been rejected by 6 journals without even reading the paper!</em></p>
  1275.  
  1276.  
  1277.  
  1278. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-executive-summary">Executive summary</h4>
  1279.  
  1280.  
  1281.  
  1282. <p>Here are five recent papers that everyone should know about and one of my favorite older papers I haven’t written about.</p>
  1283.  
  1284.  
  1285.  
  1286. <p>All show vaccine harms outweigh benefits.</p>
  1287.  
  1288.  
  1289.  
  1290. <p>I sound like a broken record, don’t I?</p>
  1291.  
  1292.  
  1293.  
  1294. <p>I’m here to document just how obvious this is to anyone who looks at the data.</p>
  1295.  
  1296.  
  1297.  
  1298. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-levi-paper-pfizer-increases-your-acm-by-gt-36">Levi paper: Pfizer increases your ACM by &gt; 36%</h4>
  1299.  
  1300.  
  1301.  
  1302. <p>This <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.25326460v1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">study</a>, on its own, can be used to show that the COVID vaccine killed people if you know the big trick.</p>
  1303.  
  1304.  
  1305.  
  1306. <p>Here’s the big trick: COVID vaccines don’t reduce non-COVID all cause mortality. If the NCACM of the vaccines are not the same, it’s certain that at least one vaccine is killing people.</p>
  1307.  
  1308.  
  1309.  
  1310. <p><a href="https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-florida-brand-differential-study" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Details on how Pfizer killed 470,000 Americans can be found here</a>.</p>
  1311.  
  1312.  
  1313.  
  1314. <p>After I countered all the silly objections, even <a href="https://kirschsubstack.com/p/grok-agrees-leviladapo-paper-justifies" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Grok was forced to admit</a> that this paper should cause health authorities to revoke the Pfizer vaccine (at a minimum).</p>
  1315.  
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  1318. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2db17ca2-df98-4cf5-acf9-0f82c7a69282_587x869.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='587'%20height='869'%20viewBox=%270%200%20587%20869%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" class="tf_svg_lazy" width="587" height="869" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2db17ca2-df98-4cf5-acf9-0f82c7a69282_587x869.png" alt=""/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2db17ca2-df98-4cf5-acf9-0f82c7a69282_587x869.png" alt=""/></noscript></a></figure>
  1319.  
  1320.  
  1321.  
  1322. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-maniche-paper-women-who-got-the-shot-were-30-50-less-likely-to-give-birth"><br>Maniche paper: Women who got the shot were 30-50% less likely to give birth</h3>
  1323.  
  1324.  
  1325.  
  1326. <p>This study, <a href="https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202504.2487/v1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rates of Successful Conceptions According to COVID-19 Vaccination Status: Data from the Czech Republic</a>, was done by researchers I know. They looked at the Czech data and the result is stunning:</p>
  1327.  
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  1330. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1fb5d78-d63a-4341-be20-c0bc9593c922_645x167.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='645'%20height='167'%20viewBox=%270%200%20645%20167%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" class="tf_svg_lazy" width="645" height="167" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1fb5d78-d63a-4341-be20-c0bc9593c922_645x167.png" alt=""/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1fb5d78-d63a-4341-be20-c0bc9593c922_645x167.png" alt=""/></noscript></a></figure>
  1331.  
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  1333.  
  1334. <p><br>The paper has been <strong>rejected by 6 journals so far.</strong> Check this out:</p>
  1335.  
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  1337.  
  1338. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92810fbd-0e50-4055-acd7-effde8aa45ea_625x175.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='625'%20height='175'%20viewBox=%270%200%20625%20175%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" class="tf_svg_lazy" width="625" height="175" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92810fbd-0e50-4055-acd7-effde8aa45ea_625x175.png" alt=""/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92810fbd-0e50-4055-acd7-effde8aa45ea_625x175.png" alt=""/></noscript></a></figure>
  1339.  
  1340.  
  1341.  
  1342. <p><br>The reason for the rejection is that readers of the journal don’t want to read articles showing they got it wrong.</p>
  1343.  
  1344.  
  1345.  
  1346. <p>Meanwhile, the CDC will continue to recommend pregnant women get the shot.</p>
  1347.  
  1348.  
  1349.  
  1350. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-okoro-paper-more-vaccines-more-death">Okoro paper: More vaccines, more death</h4>
  1351.  
  1352.  
  1353.  
  1354. <p>The paper, “<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09246479251336610" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Paradoxical increase in global COVID-19 deaths with vaccination coverage: World Health Organization estimates (2020–2023)</a>” shows a high correlation (.5 and highly statistically significant) between vaccination and death. The paper says this is a paradox because everyone knows the vaccines saved lives, right???? &lt;sarcasm off></p>
  1355.  
  1356.  
  1357.  
  1358. <p>Note the the text on the CFR correlation is wrong and the table is correct.</p>
  1359.  
  1360.  
  1361.  
  1362. <p>“Last dose per 100” refers to persons who had a&nbsp;<strong>complete primary vaccination</strong>&nbsp;as per specific vaccine dosage schedule. This value is then scaled per 100 persons as provided from our referenced data sources. Of note, most of the vaccines in use at the time required a two-dose schedule for primary vaccination to be complete.</p>
  1363.  
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  1366. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a9cfce-4c30-421d-9c2b-8a1508d7e481_1600x1073.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='1456'%20height='976'%20viewBox=%270%200%201456%20976%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" class="tf_svg_lazy" width="1456" height="976" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a9cfce-4c30-421d-9c2b-8a1508d7e481_1600x1073.png" alt=""/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9a9cfce-4c30-421d-9c2b-8a1508d7e481_1600x1073.png" alt=""/></noscript></a></figure>
  1367.  
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  1370. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-mostert-excess-mortality-continued-to-climb-even-after-the-vaccines-rolled-out-it-s-almost-as-if-they-didn-t-work"><br>Mostert: Excess mortality continued to climb even after the vaccines rolled out. It’s almost “as if” they didn’t work</h4>
  1371.  
  1372.  
  1373.  
  1374. <p>The Mosert study, <a href="https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000282" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022</a>, had this graph. Doesn’t look like the vaccines worked, does it?</p>
  1375.  
  1376.  
  1377.  
  1378. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa39eaa61-3d31-4de8-956f-ae09342a3d7f_1087x630.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='1087'%20height='630'%20viewBox=%270%200%201087%20630%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" class="tf_svg_lazy" width="1087" height="630" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa39eaa61-3d31-4de8-956f-ae09342a3d7f_1087x630.png" alt=""/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa39eaa61-3d31-4de8-956f-ae09342a3d7f_1087x630.png" alt=""/></noscript></a></figure>
  1379.  
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  1382. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-redert-eu-30-countries-550m-people-shows-vdfr-ifr"><br>Redert: EU (30 countries 550M people) shows vDFR>IFR</h4>
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  1386. <figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter"><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bdeae9c-5082-420e-9b0f-f800eced06de_1012x275.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%27%20width='1012'%20height='275'%20viewBox=%270%200%201012%20275%27%3E%3C/svg%3E" loading="lazy" data-lazy="1" class="tf_svg_lazy" width="1012" height="275" decoding="async" data-tf-src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bdeae9c-5082-420e-9b0f-f800eced06de_1012x275.png" alt=""/><noscript><img decoding="async" data-tf-not-load src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bdeae9c-5082-420e-9b0f-f800eced06de_1012x275.png" alt=""/></noscript></a></figure>
  1387.  
  1388.  
  1389.  
  1390. <p><br>Redert in <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368777703_Causal_effect_of_covid_vaccination_on_mortality_in_Europe" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Causal effect of covid vaccination on mortality in Europe</a> showed a vaccine dose fatality rate of 0.35% (95% CI: 0.15%-0.55%) in Europe which is greater than the infection fatality rate (IFR) of .1% for COVID.</p>
  1391.  
  1392.  
  1393.  
  1394. <p>This was an extremely well done study, one of the best studies on vaccine mortality during the entire pandemic.</p>
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  1396.  
  1397.  
  1398. <p>The result means&nbsp;<strong>even if the vaccines were perfect</strong>, they were a nonsensical intervention because they killed &gt; saved.</p>
  1399.  
  1400.  
  1401.  
  1402. <p>But it’s even worse than that. Even if they were perfect, they should never have been approved in the first place because you are not allowed to give a vaccine that increases ACM. That’s a violation of “do no harm.”</p>
  1403.  
  1404.  
  1405.  
  1406. <p>This paper is pretty much impossible to attack. He was limited only by the data available and did the best assessment given the limitation. Health authorities should take notice. Instead, they ignore it because the CDC says it’s safe.</p>
  1407.  
  1408.  
  1409.  
  1410. <h4 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-summary">Summary</h4>
  1411.  
  1412.  
  1413.  
  1414. <p>The harms are obvious.</p>
  1415.  
  1416.  
  1417.  
  1418. <p>The medical community is silent about all of these papers. They want to keep on believing the vaccines are safe.</p>
  1419.  
  1420.  
  1421.  
  1422. <p>At what point does this stop? When are health authorities going to speak out?</p>
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