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For the past months, I have been expressing my views regularly that we need to focus on hospitalization and deaths, and give less attention to the new infection cases. I observed that the new cases were mostly mild and did not lead to hospitalization. I refer to the statistics that are being reported daily by the authorities in Singapore. The Ministry of Health changed the focus of their reporting recently. They now focus on severe hospitalization (that require oxygen supplement) and deaths. There was a period where the new cases each day exceed 100, but the severe cases (that need oxygen supplement) remained at the same level. The deaths were low. There is now a report in the Asia Times which touch on the same topic - i.e. to focus on hospitalization, rather than new cases. See report. As a high proportion of the population has been vaccinated in several countries, and the vaccine is only 85% effective in preventing invection, there will be many cases of the vaccinated being infected. However, the vaccine prevented the infection from being serious. Among the vaccinated, many cases do not need to be hospitalized. A lower proportion develop into serious illness. While the vaccine does reduce the risk of infection and the risk of getting seriously ill, there will be a small proportion that will become seriously ill, especially if they have existing medical conditions. We can expect some of the vaccinated to be serious ill and to die. The vaccine does provide a large measure of protection, but cannot be expected to provide full protection, especially among those in poor health.   Tan Kin Lian      Read More →

Dr. Robert Malone, one of the creator of mRNA vaccine technology, said the COVID vaccine lipid nanoparticles — which tell the body to produce the spike protein — leave the injection site and accumulate in organs and tissues. On June 10, Dr. Robert Malone, creator of mRNA vaccine technology, joined evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, Ph.D., for a 3-hour conversation on the “Dark Horse Podcast” to discuss multiple safety concerns related to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. In this short outtake [which was censored on YouTube soon after this piece was published] from the full podcast, Malone, Weinstein and tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch touch on the implications of the controversial Japanese Pfizer biodistribution study. The study was made public earlier this month by Dr. Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist. They also discuss the lack of proper animal studies for the new mRNA vaccines, and the theory, espoused by virologist Geert Vanden Bossche, Ph.D., that mass vaccination with the mRNA vaccines could produce ever more transmissible and potentially deadly variants. As The Defender reported June 3, Bridle received a copy of a Japanese biodistribution study — which had been kept from the public — as a result of a freedom of information request made to the Japanese government for Pfizer data. Prior to the study’s disclosure, the public was led to believe by regulators and vaccine developers that the spike protein produced by mRNA COVID vaccines stayed in the shoulder where it was injected and was not biologically active — even though regulators around the world had a copy of the study which showed otherwise. The biodistribution study obtained by Bridle showed lipid nanoparticles from the vaccine did not stay in the deltoid muscle where they were injected as the vaccine’s developers claimed would happen, but circulated throughout the body and accumulated in large concentrations in organs and tissues, including the spleen, bone marrow, liver, adrenal glands and  — in “quite high concentrations” — in the ovaries. The mRNA — or messenger RNA — is what tells the body to manufacture the spike protein. The lipid nanoparticles are like the “boxes” the mRNA is shipped in, according to Malone. “If you find lipid nanoparticles in an organ or tissue, that tells you the drug got to that location,” Malone explained. According to the data in the Japanese study, lipid nanoparticles were found in the whole blood circulating throughout the body within four hours, and then settled in large concentrations in the ovaries, bone marrow and lymph nodes. Malone said there needed to be monitoring of vaccine recipients for leukemia and lymphomas as there were concentrations of lipid nanoparticles in the bone marrow and lymph nodes. But those signals often don’t show up for six months to three or nine years down the road, he said. Usually, signals like this are picked up in animal studies and long-term clinical trials, but this didn’t happen with mRNA vaccines, Malone said. Malone said there are two adverse event signals that are becoming apparent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). One of them is thrombocytopenia — not having enough platelets, which are manufactured in the bone marrow. The other is reactivation of latent viruses. Malone found the ovarian signal perplexing because there is no accumulation in the testes. Malone said the original data packages contained this biodistribution information. “This data has been out there a long time” within the protected, non-disclosed, purview of the regulators across the world, he said. According to Malone, the FDA knew the COVID spike protein was biologically active and could travel from the injection site and cause adverse events, and that the spike protein, if biologically active, is very dangerous. In fact, Malone was one of many scientists to warn the FDA about the dangers of the free spike protein. Malone suggested autoimmune issues may be related to free-circulating spike protein which developers assured would not happen. To pick up autoimmune issues, a 2- to 3- year follow-up period in phase 3 patients would be required to monitor for potential autoimmune consequences from vaccines — but that monitoring didn’t happen with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Pfizer and Moderna also didn’t conduct proper animal studies, Weinstein said. What the animal models give us is a signal that alerts us to what we need to follow up on in humans. Weinstein said: “We’ve got very alarming short-term stuff. We’ve got short-term stuff that is alarming on the basis of where we find these lipids, where we find the spike proteins — those things are reasons for concern because it wasn’t supposed to be this way. We’ve also got an alarming signal in terms of the hazards and deaths or the harms and the deaths that are reported in the system and there are reasons to think they are dramatic under-reports.” Vaden Bossche got it right  One of the potential harms from the vaccines, Weinstein said, was made famous by Vanden Bossche, a vaccinologist who worked with GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle, and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization in Geneva. Earlier this year, Vanden Bossche put out a call to the World Health Organization, supported by a 12-page document, that described the “uncontrollable monster” that a global mass vaccination campaign could potentially unleash. Vanden Bossche said a combination of lockdowns, and extreme selection pressure on the virus induced by the intense global mass vaccination program, might diminish the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the short-term, but ultimately, will induce the creation of more mutants of concern. This is what Vanden Bossche calls “immune escape” (i.e. incomplete sterilization of the virus by the human immune system, even following vaccine administration). Immune escape will in turn trigger vaccine companies to further refine vaccines that will add, not reduce, the selection pressure, producing ever more transmissible and potentially deadly variants. The selection pressure will cause greater convergence in mutations that affect the critical spike protein of the virus that is responsible for breaking through the mucosal surfaces of our airways, the route used by the virus to enter the human body. The virus will effectively outsmart the highly specific antigen-based vaccines being used and tweaked, depending on the circulating variants. All of this could lead to a hockey stick-like increase in serious and potentially lethal cases — in effect, an out-of-control pandemic. Malone said: “Vanden Bossche’s concern is not theoretical. It is real and we have the data. We’re stuck with this virus or its downstream variants pretty much for the rest of our lives and it’s going to become more like the flu. We will have continuing evolution and circulation of variants, and that is an escape.”     by Megan Redshaw Megan Redshaw is a freelance reporter for The Defender. She has a background in political science, a law degree and extensive training in natural health.    Read More →

President Biden did his job, not perfectly but in the end, effectively. With material and monetary aid being siphoned off to corruption, the only option was more American military presence basically to fight a war that the Afghans were unwilling to fight themselves, at least not in an organized way that was supported by credible central government. As soon as Biden ordered the evacuation of all Americans and of their Afghan allies, the collapse of the Afghan army and government began. No Afghan government soldiers or officials wanted to have to fight the Taliban without the Americans to back them up. They made a rational, if not particularly heroic, decision to save what they could. [LINK] Taliban didn't take over Afghanistan for running the government. If no money is generated, Taliban's end is not different from the Afghan government. It then will be a huge problem for its neighbors, particularly Pakistan, China, Russia and Iran. Of the (many) problems for Afghanistan is that there are two parts to the Taliban. There is a leadership level that is thinking about running (or at least "owning") a country. But they are quite disconnected from the Taliban on the ground - the hordes or 18-20 year olds running around with AK47s. Drunk on power, uneducated and feeling that as the "winners" they have the right to extract vengeance on the losers. It is hard to imagine the Taliban governing a nation of 38 million people. With their motorcycles and pickup trucks, they resemble a gang that just stepped out of a Mad Max movie. Yet, they have regained power and have shown themselves to be cunning and skilled in the exploitation of media and social media. And they were Afghans, in effect, fighting the proxies of a foreign superpower. Maybe Biden had that in mind all along. So, the debacle in Afghanistan was Biden actually playing three-dimensional geopolitical chess against China, Pakistan, Iran, and Russia. This catastrophe is all going to end up into a beneficial endgame for the United States, thwarting the regional ambitions of its' rivals. Afghanistan is surrounded by Iran, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Tazakistan and India. This realization will come but not so soon. Conservative talking points suggest China is the big winner here, but like so many complex issues, examining a few layers below the surface may indicate otherwise, and you make a very strong case for 'the otherwise.', yes, the Chinese will take their bucks into Afghanistan in an effort to monopolize the effect of the natural resources - but there’s risk involved, as the Chinese found out in Venezuela. It could turn out very poorly, given the ignorance and brutality of the Taliban. They blew up some Chinese engineers in Pakistan. The region is far from settled & loyalties may flip on a dime. Britain, Russia & lately the US - all of these have given up trying to make sense of that region & it is not for lack of trying but other priorities in the South China sea & elsewhere beckon. Now the question is, will US, UK, Russia, and India involve in a Chinese civil war if Mainland tries to unite with Taiwan by force? This is even trickier since US only recognize one China, the Mainland. It is not like North/South Korea/Vietnam where there were two established and recognized countries. The strategic question this time has grown sharper. When the Chinese Amphibious forces start to make their way across the Taiwan strait does the US President move submarines, carriers, and Marines to stop them? Or does he leave for Camp David and hope it is all over soon? Maybe Kamala Harris have the answer when she comes a calling this weekend. Hope our leaders know they must tread trepidatiously on the deep blue seas up north unless Moses is with them!   Sjorne Shen   * Part 1 is here.      Read More →