COVID-19  POST-MORTEM

DDP Newsletter Vol. XL, No. 1

After a disaster, it is critical to do a “post-mortem” analysis for lessons learned—or the equivalent of an M&M (Mortality and Morbidity) conference for surgical outcomes.

The COVID-19 emergency is officially over, although one sees occasional masks, and “booster” shots are constantly recommended. Already there is talk of “Disease X,” which might be “20 times worse.”

The first lesson might be the need for post-mortems (autopsies) of early deaths. After a delay of many months, a dozen autopsies revealed the importance of inflammation and blood clots. Thousands of deaths might have been caused by rigid hospital protocols, with overly aggressive sedation and ventilation, and failure to use anti-inflammatories, such as steroids, and anticoagulants in the second and later phases of disease (see McCullough Protocol, as at https://aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/).

Discussion of these issues and many others was prevented by unprecedented censorship of anything that disagreed with the lavishly funded fear campaign. The common sense of intelligent lay people occasionally overcame it.

YouTuber Gonzalo Lira said that at first he was very afraid, and wondered whether he should buy a couple of ventilators, in case his family should need them in a medically impoverished country (Ukraine). But while traveling in Amsterdam, he conversed with homeless (but not unintelligent or uneducated) junkies, and noticed that this vulnerable population was not dying. When the vaccines were released, he recalled that when he was 5 years old he had seen children with flaps for limbs, because of “safe and effective”—but inadequately tested—thalidomide. He decided to wait to see whether girls born to vaccinated mothers had normal fertility (http://tinyurl.com/apczmedt, 21 min.).

Lira, an American citizen, got the harshest form of censorship—imprisonment, torture, and death due to refusal of medical treatment in a Ukrainian prison. The U.S. Department of State did nothing while he languished without trial for 7 months.

(Lira’s offense involved posting YouTube videos from an apartment in Kharkov, with incisive commentary about the war in Ukraine, Western culture, and world affairs, with many interesting interviews. He clearly was not a “Russian asset,” but was very critical of U.S. policy. The most intolerable posting might have been his commentary on U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and her role in the Russia-Ukraine war (tinyurl.com/mvv7vt36). Postings by and about Lira can still be found by searching X.com, including Tucker Carlson’s interview of his father (http://tinyurl.com/a5ey72hm). Like Carlson, Lira asserted that Ukraine was not winning the war.)

Censorship of scientists and physicians who disagree with the official narrative on pandemic control measures or treatment protocols has so far been limited to attacks on their livelihood. Yet as with “climate deniers,” “COVID deniers” or “vaccine deniers” have faced public demands to exclude them from participation in life, or even to imprison or to “gas” them (http://tinyurl.com/59xmx28a).

Incalculable losses include ruptured family ties and friendships; grief, anxiety, and depression because of separation from dying family members or cancelation of important events such as graduations; cognitive losses owing to school closures, masking, and other measures; trauma from overzealous law enforcement; and loss of freedom.

THE $16 TRILLION VIRUS

JAMA estimated the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic at $16 trillion in the Oct 20, 2020, issue. That is 90% of the U.S. GDP, more than twice the cost of all wars the U.S. has fought since 2001, and four times the lost output in the Great Recession. Since the onset of COVID-19 in March, 60 million claims for unemployment had been filed, greater than 1 million per week. The prior record was 695,000 in the week of Oct 2, 1982.

A survey of 10,000 persons in May 2020 showed that about half reported losses of income and wealth, an average of about $5,000 and $33,000, respectively (http://tinyurl.com/bdfny6dd). Federal spending meant to mitigate lockdown effects led to the “hockey stick” pattern of federal debt (http://tinyurl.com/mw3a7n2k). This is on top of what Prof. Peter St Onge calls the “greatest credit bubble in history,” which “despite bank failures and commercial real estate collapse has not yet begun to pop” (http://tinyurl.com/trehpjdu).

Based on modeling and numerous assumptions, some calculated a cost of $90 million per life saved by measures such as “social distancing” and lockdowns (http://tinyurl.com/34vaswht). (It is now being admitted that the 6-ft distancing was based on nothing.)  

In the COVID response, “we have reached the bottom of human baseness,” write Tom Jefferson and Carl Henegan (“The Rule of Terror and Empty Vessels,” http://tinyurl.com/msycusrc). The government “managers” and the media lured the populace into a state of panic, in order achieve control. Vital records have systematically been erased to cover corporate backs and avoid the nuisance of Freedom of Information requests. “The unedifying…show among politicians and their cliques continues, laid bare by the WhatsApp messages surviving the nightly cull. In archaeology, they would be known as ‘residual deposits surviving later disturbance,’ meaning what’s left of documentable and verifiable evidence after thieves, robbers and demolition squads have taken their toll.” Because of their stance, they write, “we have been subject to personal attacks, University investigations, spying, ostracism and loss of jobs.”

The public-health control measures were supposed to be a stopgap until we had the miraculous vaccine, but control was relinquished reluctantly, if at all. Many vaccinated persons had so little confidence in vaccine protection that they continued to mask. Indeed, protection was partial and quickly waned, and was never shown to interrupt transmission. Adverse effects, if acknowledged at all, were said to be “rare” (tinyurl.com/yeymnfxc).

At least 9 million Americans probably lost their jobs (tinyurl.com/4p8akxp5)—likely including many of our most skilled, experienced, and irreplaceable workers—for refusing the shot. How many young, apparently healthy working people died unexpectedly from adverse reactions? Cancers seemingly are increased in frequency and aggressiveness (http://tinyurl.com/59zn9hxx). Disability claims are up 33% after the vaccine rollout (http://tinyurl.com/yc8s56va). Delayed adverse effects may take years to manifest. The final tally might show the worst public health disaster in history.

42nd ANNUAL MEETING

Our annual meeting w ill be held in El Paso, TX, on July 5-7th. A group outing to the world’s largest inland water desalination plant will be held on Friday, July 5. Watch www.ddponline.org for agenda and on-line registration.

American Response to Nuclear Testing

Vol. XXXIX, No. 5

A color photograph of “the  awesome fireball” from a test of a hydrogen bomb (what Edward Teller called “the Super”) appeared on the cover of the Apr 19, 1954, issue of Life magazine (20 cents). It resembles photos of the sun.

The first page of the article quotes President Dwight D. Eisenhower, concerning fears raised by the threatening aspects of the world, including the H-bomb. “The greater these apprehensions, the greater is the need that we look at them clearly, face to face, without fear, like honest, straightforward Americans….”

The editorial is titled “The Christian Hope” with subtitle “It will not save civilization except by saving the soul of the individual.” It stated that there was little evidence of desperation. The suicide rate showed no meaningful trend. “The general fear of annihilation by H bomb is not desperate; it takes the form of barking for action, as you would expect of any healthy animals whose instinct of self-preservation is unimpaired.”

It noted that “the doctrine of automatic progress, which so warped the 19th Century’s picture of itself, has all but vanished.” It quoted St. Paul’s admonition that “For when they shall say Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh.”

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Nuclear Scaremongering

DDP Newsletter, Vol. XXXIX, No. 6

The radiation terror campaign continues in the December 2023 issue of Scientific American on “The New Nuclear Age” (http://tinyurl.com/5exwpywd). As has become typical with this once excellent magazine, beautiful illustrations and some fascinating articles are mixed in with politicized commentaries, and certain assumptions are not to be questioned: safe-and-effective vaccines, nonexistence of an intelligent designer, and catastrophic human-caused climate change. Doubts or skepticism (“denialism”) are “conspiracy theories” and “antiscience ideology.” And nuclear weapons are an existential threat, a nuclear attack is nonsurvivable, and tiny radiation doses are deadly.

“The U.S. is beginning an ambitious, controversial reinvention of its nuclear arsenal. The project comes with incalculable costs and unfathomable risks.”

A major part of the $1.5 trillion program to build up the U.S. nuclear arsenal is to refurbish the land-based part of the “strategic triad.” Upgraded missiles are to be planted in hundreds of silos across five states, “to serve as a ‘great sponge’ to soak up enemy missiles,” states the article on “Sacrifice Zones.” During the Cold War, “the air force used the vulnerability of the land-based missiles to argue for their necessity.” The enemy would use up resources that could otherwise be used to attack military targets, infrastructure, or cities. It is claimed that such an attack would “annihilate all life in the surrounding regions,” cause several million fatalities across the U.S. from acute radiation exposure if people had advance warning and adequate shelter for four days, and twice as many if they did not (they don’t).

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Will Bank Dominos Fall?

DDP Newsletter Vol. XXXIX, No. 2

With the sudden collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), recently rated very highly, people are understandably nervous. This was said to be the second largest bank failure in history. Will your bank be next?

SVB’s special features included administrators who were more concerned about being “woke” than about the financial stability of their bank. Most depositors (93%), including many venture capitalists, had accounts greatly in excess of the FDIC-insured amount of $250,000. Many are just very very important persons, such as Prince Harry or major donors to the Democratic Party—and major businesses linked to the Chinese Communist Party. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, after an initial denial, said that they would all be bailed out—at the expense of consumers who will have to pay increased fees that banks must assess to rebuild the Deposit Insurance Fund (tinyurl.com/y2uvak8z).

Yellen told Congress that depositors at other banks would be similarly protected only if “failure to protect uninsured depositors would create systemic risk and significant economic and financial consequences” (https://tinyurl.com/pv7cmh3a).

If fears sparked by recent bank runs continue, there could be a sharp drop in the velocity of money as people hoard cash, with sizable deflationary/depressionary effects, writes Richard Maybury. But he states that you need not fear a run on your bank like the one depicted in the 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life. He writes: “When the Twin Towers came down in 2001, a run on the banks began. Federal Reserve staff quickly contacted armored car companies to make sure any bank needing greenbacks could be speedily resupplied. The run was nipped in the bud, and you probably never heard about it.”

If he were in charge, he would have such a rescue plan ready. Depositors would get their money back. But what would it be worth (Early Warning Report April-May 2023)?

Like many, Maybury recommends owning some precious metals as a back-up. It might be too late—at this moment, platinum coins and small-denomination silver coins are unavailable. A few coins that you can carry might be lifesaving. Remember, however, that living in a rural area with a large stash of gold in a nonportable safe will not light your home, keep you warm, protect you from thugs or wild animals, or cure a bacterial infection. My grandfather’s 4 G’s were grub, gold, guns, and ground. Perhaps more important are 3 G’s: grub, guns, and gear—tools and useful items of all types.

Remember that bank depositors are unsecured creditors. Increasingly, banks are denying delaying access to deposits, or refusing credit cards if they “suspect” fraud.

Banks’ loss of depositors is an alarming trend. From a high of $18.15 trillion in April 2022 total deposits at all US commercial banks dropped to $17.3 trillion as of March 22, 2023, a loss of $850 billion of capital in the past 12 months. As the Fed hikes rates, deposits are withdrawn to seek a higher return (tinyurl.com/2zwxjyt5). Though having a large effect, the inflation-adjusted Fed funds rate is still -1.9%, meaning that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is “so far behind the inflation curve that they can barely see its tail lights,” writes David Stockman (https://tinyurl.com/bdhy8exj). Since March 2008, the Fed funds rate has been negative in real terms 96% of the time.

The contagion is not restricted to the U.S. The Swiss bailed out Credit Suisse, which Stockman describes as a “walking dumpster fire, which had fallen for nearly every fraudster on the planet.” Since 2016, it had booked $3.3 billion of cumulative losses even as it had paid out $4.9 billion in dividends and stock buybacks (ibid.).

SVB’s egregiously mismatched asset book still amounted to only 0.6% of the U.S. banking system, and Credit Suisse’s $718 billion of assets amounted to just 0.4% of the global banking system. The bailouts amount to a confession that “15 years of negative real interest rates have so thoroughly infected the banking system with gambling excesses that they dare not allow even the sub-1 percenters to face their just deserts.”

The Fed is an SDI (Systematically Dangerous Institution), Stockman states.


FINANCIAL MELTDOWN AND UKRAINE

The war in Ukraine is occurring as the states that are “at war with Russia” stand “at the edge of an economic precipice.” Living standards are collapsing, prices are spiraling, jobs are priced out by higher energy costs, shelves have empty spaces, and pockets of system dysfunctionality as in transport systems are confounding the smooth running of society, writes Alistair Crooke. The Europeans fear kinetic war in Europe, whereas the American faction is more fearful of the prospect of financial meltdown, should the war widen. The “Rockefeller-Davos prescription” of blowing a new financial bubble of “renewable tech” to keep the dollar-hegemony project afloat is running into difficulty as the world is moving toward decentralization and multipolarity (tinyurl.com/2rwxmn8b).

In response to U.S. sanctions disconnecting their banks from international financial services, Iran and Russia have integrated their interbank communication and transfer systems to help enhance trade and financial operations. The Russian Financial Message Transfer System “is immune to sanctions as it is based on the infrastructures of both countries,” according to Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Mohsen Karimi (https://tinyurl.com/53jdu7nn).

Countries that are dumping the dollar also include China, Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and India: the majority of the world economy.


41stANNUAL MEETING

DDP’s 41st annual meeting will be held in Tucson at the Doubletree Reid Park, July 7-9. The theme is: “Global Crises: Reawakening vs. ‘Reset’.” Developing crises include energy poverty, food shortages, the corruption of science and education, possible new pandemics, escalating war that could go nuclear, and economic decline.

Sadly, Jay Lehr, “the world’s most optimistic man,” died recently, so will not be with us. As Edward Teller said, “It is our duty to be optimistic, as otherwise we do nothing to change things.” Thus, the meeting will feature ways to counter alarmism and self-destructive policies; effective pandemic response; the promise of nuclear energy; therapeutic advances (photobiomodulation); and decontamination technology (ozone).

Civil defense will be highlighted by Stephen Jones, including breakthroughs in radiation monitoring. The mobile nuclear/biological/chemical shelter display that debuted at DDP in the 1980s will be back.

Banquet speaker Robert Zubrin, founder and president of Pioneer Energy, has authored more than 200 technical and non-technical publications in various areas of astronautical, aerospace, fossil fuel, and nuclear engineering, and 14 U.S. patents. He will be available to sign his latest book, The Case for Nukes.

Nuclear War Thoughts in the 2020s

DDP Newsletter Vol. XXXIX, No. 1 

A successor to the 1984 nuclear apocalypse, The Day After, was released in 2020—interesting timing? Night into Day (https://tinyurl.com/4ck9xuv8) is a fairly realistic depiction of the beliefs and probable reactions of most Americans.

Many do not believe the radio warnings of an imminent attack but intend to proceed with their planned activities, in this case filing for divorce the next day. The soon-to-be-ex visits his estranged wife to sign papers but doesn’t leave because of jammed freeways. The couple are stuck in a tiny apartment. When the flash comes, he drops to the floor—she is standing at the window and is knocked down. The power goes out; there is no TV or cell phone service. The first thought is to leave. They find an old paper map and gather all their canned food and water, but have nowhere to go. Anyway, cars don’t work.

Katie ventures outside to search for some potassium iodide to save them from radiation, thinking that someone in the building might have a thyroid problem, or there might be some at the corner pharmacy. None is found. The only plan is to await rescue. Based on past experience with hurricanes, they expect FEMA to arrive in 48 hours. Soon, they begin to suffer radiation sickness from the initial release.

None of the people commenting on the film appear to have read even the first 35 pages of Nuclear War Survival Skills. There is nothing about fire hazards, initial radiation vs. fallout, radiation monitoring, radiation protection factors, expedient shelter, or the actual purpose of potassium iodide.

Stephen Jones writes: “The whole movie is worth watching as it gives a sense of what most people will be facing, both their ignorance and denial. Psychologically it was well done. It’s a movie about what not to do.” He points out that more than 100 civil defense films are available on www.youtube.com. Just search “civil defense.” While some are outdated and no longer relevant, others are excellent.

He says: “Many people would embrace the truth if they knew where to find it.”

“Nukes are in the news, every day 24/7! Fighting in Ukraine is said to be on par with World War II battles. In each month more soldiers are killed than in ten years of the Vietnam war. Talk of using nuclear weapons by both sides grows each day.”

“Biblically we are in the time of apocalypse, meaning ‘that which is hidden is now being revealed.’”

Compared to decades ago, Jones writes, “our current inventory of civil defense meters is massive. Very likely we have the largest inventory of rad monitors for the public and emergency response in the country, and our rad monitors are the only ones designed specifically for nuclear fallout that are reliable and simple to use.”

The Kearny Fallout Meter, which was originally considered to be the meter of last resort, is the meter of only resort for the current crisis. “The best we can do with our current inventory of some 160,000 meters is to encourage the public at large to make their own.” Unfortunately, the digital age has dumbed down most of the public. The KFM was designed to be built by children born before 1968. Due to the digital age, those born later did not develop gadgeteering skills. Still, there are many millions of seniors alive today with the skills to make the simple KFM from the instructions in Nuclear War Survival Skills, with materials found in the average kitchen. The unwaxed dental floss originally specified is no longer available, but the plastic bag strips and clean human hair work. Alcohol on a Q-tip works to clean meter stop threads if contaminated with hand oil.

The breakthrough SIRAD (self-indicating radiation alert dosemeter) technology (https://tinyurl.com/4ttwfdrt), the basis for the Oh Shucks! Meter, has not been widely adopted. Jones attributes this to the Semmelweis reflex and to interagency rivalry in federal and state governments. NWSS was created by the U.S. Department of Energy (the agency that handles nuclear weapons). SIRAD was created by the Department of Defense. When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formed, it could not even be persuaded to add the Oak Ridge National Laboratory website (www.ornl.gov) to DHS’s site, www.ready.gov.

Searching ready.gov for any type of radiation monitoring device turned up nothing. Entering “Geiger” turned up three links to “gender.”

An additional problem is the collusion or corruption in the incestuous relationships between bankers, developers, and politicians that are making our cities tinderboxes, firestorms waiting to be lit by nukes. Instead of blast-resistant construction at a cost of only ten percent, modern buildings are built of “straw” like Hollywood sets, or sheathed in glass that would be shattered by a blast wave.

There has been massive opposition to civil defense work and to related new technology. Most importantly, enemy propaganda has been successful in convincing Americans that nuclear war is not survivable. This began with books/movies like On The Beach and Level 7, but we still hear it constantly, even from “patriotic” sources. So far, the new technology has not been a commercial success. If panic sales hit, we must charge enough to take the technology worldwide—and to distribute it to first responders.

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness was founded 40 years ago by the fathers of the atomic age to keep civil defense alive. Some of those founders were also responsible for the creation of the U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear War Survival Skills and Kearny Fallout Meter project.

So far, our accomplishments have included groundwork towards science education nationally. We are responsible for the fact that science teachers nationwide wide now use common smoke detectors for their radioactive sources instead of expensive sources “approved” by educational sales companies. We saved more than 20,000 Geiger counters headed for landfills and got them into classrooms instead. Shane Connor (www.ki4u.com) has salvaged an additional 100,000 from the scrap heap.

Our people may have a second chance to get prepared before an all-out nuclear attack occurs. Though the situation of our country looks dismal indeed, recall that the Bible is explicit about times in which “evil shall slay the wicked” (Psalms 34:21).

PREPAREDNESS TIPS

  • Your life could be saved by wearing white cotton undergarments. One soldier’s life was thus saved in Hiroshima when his outer clothing instantly burned off.
  • If there is warning, fill every available container with water.
  • Do not try to outrun fallout. Shelter in place is generally better.
  • Have small LED flashlights and headlamps.
  • Have a portable radio and plenty of batteries.

See http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm for what to do if an attack is imminent.

Entomophagy – A ‘Sustainable’ Diet?

DDP Newsletter, Vol. XXXVII, No. 6

Using insects as a main source of animal protein is a big part of the World Economic Forum’s plans for us. To sustain a continued growth of 75 million souls per year, they say all of us need to eat bugs, just as some people have for centuries.

In fact, you may already be eating them as deliberate ingredients and not just contaminants. It’s another reason to read the labels on your food carefully.

If you search on amazon for “crickets” you will find Hotlix along with the food for reptiles, birds, and fish. Hotlix candy is made from “real crickets” and is said to be ideal as stocking stuffers or gifts for Father’s Day, birthdays, or other occasions. A “raw power cricket protein bar” is available in a package labeled “Thank you for saving earth!” Cricket flour is being incorporated into all kinds of products from soups to pasta.

Raising insects is supposed to be much better for the Planet than raising livestock. Insects are said to require about 4% of the water and 10% of the amount of grain that a cow would require to produce the same amount of food biomass. Livestock emit methane and ammonia waste (a,k,a. fertilizer). “Livestock is the second largest contributor to the most serious environmental concerns and augments 18% of greenhouse gas emissions.” Termites produce only 5% of global methane emissions, compared with 28% by livestock (https://tinyurl.com/3wnzyhur). Livestock also take up space (which might be needed for solar and wind installations).

No part of the insect is wasted—you eat all of it, including the skeleton and whatever it ate, at all stages of the digestive process. Insects are commonly fed oatmeal before they are fed to humans to clean their intestinal tract. “Therefore, insects that are farmed and fed a reliable food source are typically safer than foraged insects. When eating insects, it is important to remain safe in order to reap the full benefits of these edible arthropods” (https://tinyurl.com/p44y4pc3).

Insects may help you lose weight. They have a high-protein, low-fat nutritional profile. When compared to beef, crickets had about half the calories and one-third the amount of fat for the same weight of meat (ibid.).

Public acceptance has been surprisingly high, especially if people are told they are saving the planet from global warming. Indoctrination is beginning early as children are fed insect snacks at school. Fitness studios are adding insect protein powders to their on-site food offerings. The market for edible insects is expected to grow by more than 26% per year, reaching $4.6 billion by 2027 (https://tinyurl.com/3djjfmvj).

Researchers have ground up insects and found the amino acid, mineral, and micronutrient content to be “highly nutritious.” I have been unable to find any long-term studies of the effects of an insect-based diet on health. Apparently, such evidence is not needed to promote—or force—a radical change in people’s lives.

Among the benefits touted by the New Yorker: “They are natural recyclers, capable of eating old cardboard, manure, and by-products from food manufacturing. And insect husbandry is humane: bugs like teeming, and thrive in filthy, crowded conditions” (https://tinyurl.com/yrd3pr97).

Some allergic problems are acknowledged. Persons with shellfish allergies might be allergic to chitin. Depending on what the insects ate, they might not be gluten-free.

Some humans can digest chitin, which forms insects’ exoskeleton, but the majority probably cannot. Some studies show evidence that chitin may be carcinogenic and trigger the immune system, writes Robert Malone, M.D. (https://tinyurl.com/mrycbv8y).

Chitin activates a variety of innate (eosinophils, macrophages) and adaptive immune cells (IL-4/IL-13 expressing T helper type-2 lymphocytes). Chitin induces cytokine production, leukocyte recruitment, and alternative macrophage activation. “The significance of chitin and its derivatives on immune responses has not been fully appreciated.” (https://tinyurl.com/yj3z88vv).

Other effects include potential interference with the absorption of dietary lipids from the gastrointestinal tract. Long-term consumption might lead to deficiency of fat-soluble vitamins A and E (https://tinyurl.com/yx8utpnn).

Breads made with powdered cricket flour may be loaded with potentially dangerous bacterial spores (ibid.). One study detected parasites in 81% of insect farms, and 30% of those could potentially affect humans (tinyurl.com/35kdu2m8). Studies of other risks such as bacterial pathogens are being compiled (https://tinyurl.com/34y8vfp5).

A search on “edible insects; safety” on Pubmed.gov found articles considering contamination with mycotoxins or heavy metals, transference of antibiotic resistance, insect viruses, pesticide residues, and changes in gut microbiota. As one abstract noted: “Further studies are needed to evaluate the possible effects of prolonged insect consumption on human health.” However, the plan apparently is like that for novel vaccines: implement globally, with a multimillion-dollar propaganda campaign (https://tinyurl.com/m64uwxhm), and constantly repeat “safe and effective.”

For example, PBS, which has received millions from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, recently aired a new documentary pushing the bug-eating agenda (https://tinyurl.com/468hc63h).

DELIBERATELY CREATED FOOD SHORTAGES

Why the emergency? Part of UN agenda 2030 is to cut 30% of land from farm production, Dr. Malone reports. Once gone, a farm is not immediately replaceable. Meeting zero-emission “climate” goals is said to require reducing meat consumption to 24 kg per person per year, from the current OECD average of 70 kg. The Dutch government is expropriating 3,000 farms based on a false “nitrogen crisis” (tinyurl.com/4nwnzht3).The Netherlands is the world’s second-largest food exporter.

Fertilizer shortages and high prices, partly due to the high price of natural gas, the feedstock for ammonia fertilizer, will cause serious decreases in crop yields (tinyurl.com/mtjp5jru) and likely widespread starvation (https://tinyurl.com/ydrxd48t).

Plant-derived fake meat and Israeli-based 3D-printed lab-grown meat from cultured animal fibroblasts are being promoted. Believer Meat is building the world’s largest facility in North Carolina (https://tinyurl.com/5xh5vznw).

The main commercial driver behind the push to use crickets as food in North America is Aspire Groups, “supported” by the UN, Dr. Malone writes. A single facility in Canada can immediately begin producing 9000 tons (18 million pounds) of crickets a year, with the help of artificial intelligence. Aspire Foods is listed as one of the top ten outstanding projects to advance UN sustainable food goals, particularly in North America. Will these gambles pay off for Bill Gates and other developers? Possibly. But how much world depopulation will result?

Civil Defense vs. Lockdown 2.0

DDP Newsletter Vol. XXXVIII, No. 6

World events are moving at a breakneck pace. The threat of nuclear weapons use is probably the highest it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. The crisis was resolved when Nikita Khrushchev promised that that work on the missile sites would be halted and that the missiles already in Cuba would be returned to the Soviet Union. In return, President John F. Kennedy committed the U.S. to never invading Cuba. Kennedy also secretly promised to withdraw the nuclear-armed missiles that the U.S. had stationed in Turkey in previous years (https://tinyurl.com/45yx29vb). After this crisis, Kennedy started a nationwide civil defense program, with fallout shelters identified and stocked, and five million costly radiation detectors distributed to cities and town throughout the nation.

Stephen Jones, who has been involved in civil defense since 1979, writes: “The original purpose of our national Civil Defense was TO KEEP THE COUNTRY WORKING. The purpose of the detectors was to let people know when it was safe so recovery efforts and other essential work could begin. Now there are virtually no detectors out there dedicated to measuring nuclear fallout. In general, HAZMAT units are not equipped or trained for fallout danger.”

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Klaus Schwab: The New Dr. Strangelove?

DDP Newsletter Vol. XXXVII, No. 5

Stanley Kubrick’s satirical nuclear apocalyptic movie Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, starring Peter Sellers in three roles, is still available, but likely of less interest now. The fearmongers are focused on another type of apocalypse. Even Physicians for Social Responsibility (psr.org) seems to have paused its “bombing runs,” though it still has a Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program. The “gravest dangers to human health” featured on its home page include climate change and fracking.

Ever since the film’s release in 1964, Herman Kahn has been referred to as the real Dr. Strangelove. When quizzed about the comparison, Kahn would tell Newsweek, “Kubrick is a friend of mine. He told me Dr. Strangelove wasn’t supposed to be me.” But others would point out the many affinities between Stanley Kubrick’s classic character and the real-life Herman Kahn.

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Monkeypox

DDP Newsletter Vol. XXXVII, No. 3

The new media disease crisis to follow COVID-19 is monkeypox, or whatever it will be called after its supposedly racist name is changed. The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering whether to call it a “public health emergency of international concern,” which could lead to “temporary” international measures to stem the spread.

The name is really a misnomer. The disease was discovered in 1958 in research monkeys, but its natural hosts are likely rodents and other small mammals. It was first diagnosed in humans in 1970 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), causing fever, headaches, and lymph node swelling followed by an eruption of pus-filled blisters. The skin lesions can resemble those of shingles, chickenpox, or syphilis. The rash tends to start on the face and has the unusual feature that blisters can form on the palms (https://tinyurl.com/2p8t24ph).

Most people recover within 2–4 weeks, and outbreaks usually fizzle out on their own. The biggest known outbreak in the U.S. occurred in 2003, when 47 people were infected by pet prairie dogs that had picked up the virus from rodents imported from Ghana (Jon Cohen, Science 5/2/022, https://tinyurl.com/33pjenrk).

This outbreak is different because of the simultaneous appearance of around 2,500 cases by late June, in 20 countries on four continents, of a disease that has previously been mostly confined to Africa. Could a rave or two with international attendance explain it? Or does the simultaneous occurrence of widespread cases, and apparent increased human-to-human transmission, suggest it was spread deliberately and may have been engineered, asks Dr. Meryl Nass (tinyurl.com/yc2rp2rm).

The outbreak seems to be tightly associated with two large European dance party events (“raves”), a “Madrid sauna” and a “Gay Pride” event in the Canary Islands on May 5–15, which drew some 80,000 people. Recalling the early history of AIDS, someone who was seeking to introduce a pathogen into a highly mobile international population might see this as an ideal opportunity, writes Robert Malone, M.D. (https://tinyurl.com/pjsby78p).

Monkeypox is not generally considered to be a sexually transmitted infection, but it is transmitted by close contact and victims have so far been mostly gay or bisexual men. The way to stop the spread would be for people to stop having sex with men who have sex with men, for about two-to-three weeks. Public health officials had no trouble telling people not to go outside, not to visit their family, not to go to church, etc. for two weeks stretching into years to stop COVID-19. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) apparently believes that a few weeks of abstinence is too much to ask. On its website, it suggests some ways to be a little safer if you must go to a rave, party, club, festival, or gay bathhouse (https://tinyurl.com/y3a8r89b).

An amazing coincidence is that the Canary Island rave occurred on the same date as a hypothetical bioterror attack modeled in an Event 201-style wargame exercise about release of an engineered monkeypox virus, “a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight.” This tabletop exercise was conducted in March 2021 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) (tinyurl.com/5b4zfcra). The modeling predicted 3.2 billion cases and 271 million deaths by Dec 1, 2023. As Dr. Malone points out, the predictive accuracy of the simplistic public health models such as that used to support this scenario have repeatedly proven to be abysmal, as in the initial catastrophic predictions for COVID-19.

In another “bizarre coincidence,” writes Cohen (op. cit.), Bavarian Nordic held a meeting in May with David Heymann of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and nine other public health leaders from around the world, planned 6 months earlier, to discuss the need for more countries to stockpile its vaccine, given the increase in monkeypox cases over the past few years. This vaccine (JYNNEOS) uses a nonreplicating form of vaccinia, and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use against both smallpox and its cousin monkeypox.

Conveniently, JYNNEOS was approved in 2019, when there had been only about 50 human cases of monkeypox diagnosed in the U.S. over a period of 60 years. It could not be tested for efficacy against either disease; so, FDA relied on neutralizing antibody titers.

Another interesting coincidence is that Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) was funding research to study treatments for monkeypox beginning in September 2020, well before the outbreak (https://tinyurl.com/245uzdfc).

The U.S. government has reportedly stockpiled enough smallpox vaccine for the entire population in the event of a biowarfare attack, and has recently ordered $113 million worth of vaccine from Bavarian Nordic, with an option to buy $180 million more for a total of 13 million doses (https://tinyurl.com/4x6s4hp5). Should you rush out to get a shot as soon as possible?

Myocarditis/pericarditis is a well-known side effect of smallpox vaccination. FDA acknowledges a rate of 5.7 per 1,000 (1 in 175) in persons given the ACAM2000 vaccine, the other US-licensed smallpox vaccine. The incidence might be higher with JYNNEOS; two studies showed elevated troponin (cardiac enzyme) levels in 11–18% of recipients (https://tinyurl.com/3hkz74kc). Moreover, use of replicating smallpox vaccines can cause disseminated vaccinia infections in immunocompromised persons (tinyurl.com/ydvuu24v). Some worry that COVID-19 vaccines can cause immunocompromise.

Could the virus be engineered? The first full genome showed that the strain most closely resembles viruses carried by travelers from Nigeria to Singapore, Israel, and the UK in 2018 and 2019. However, as Dr. Malone writes, the outbreak virus differs from the 2018 and 2019 viruses by a mean of 50 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which is far more than one would expect considering the estimated substitution rate for Orthopoxviruses. (DNA viruses evolve slowly.) Monkeypox virus is the subject of gain-of-function research in many labs, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Although the pox viruses are unrelated to the varicella-zoster virus, the monkeypox rash can be confused with shingles. The CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has processed more than 18,000 reports of herpes/shingles outbreaks in association with COVID-19 vaccines (https://tinyurl.com/yvr62th9).

Monkeypox might be just the latest cause for fear porn, but it raises more questions than answers at present.

Remember the Italian saying: Niente e lasciato al caso (nothing happens by chance).


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Color Revolutions

DDP Newsletter Vol. XXXVII, No. 4

A color revolution is said to be a “mostly peaceful” anti-regime protest movement that may result in regime change. In its initial 14 years of independent existence, Ukraine has experienced two. In December 2004, The Atlantic called the Orange Revolution “a genuine outpouring of popular sentiment for freedom and justice,…a media-savvy revolution, almost like a democracy festival, aimed at winning the sympathy of Europeans and Americans” (https://tinyurl.com/2s4e8bhm).

Another view is that the term refers to CIA-led regime-change operations developed by RAND Corporation, “democracy” NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and other groups, according to journalist Gina Aveni (https://tinyurl.com/yn4j58ap). Brant Turbeville writes that these movements are the method by which “the destinies of seemingly independent nations are controlled by a world oligarchy” (https://tinyurl.com/3drrtar2).

Color revolutions, Turbeville states, may supplant or be combined with direct military action (Iraq, Afghanistan) or the “Brzezinski method” (death squads as in Libya) to destabilize governments. The wide participation of genuine local activists gives them the façade of a popular pro-democracy movement.

 “The operation—engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience—is now so slick that the methods have matured into a template for winning other people’s elections” (Guardian 11/25/2004, https://tinyurl.com/2p8exm7v).

Oliver Stone’s documentary Ukraine on Fire: Russian Aggression or American Interference? You Decide, banned from YouTube but available as a DVD and on Rumble (https://tinyurl.com/nhk57b84), describes the common features of money, media, and method in events in Georgia, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Moldova, Venezuela, Lebanon, and elsewhere. Symbolism is critical; the clenched fist is ubiquitous. Funding sources include the U.S. and Dutch Embassies and George Soros’s International Renaissance Foundation.

The 2004 Ukraine protests followed a hotly contested election and runoff in which Viktor Yanukovych, who was favored by Vladimir Putin, was declared elected. But a second runoff after the protests resulted in victory for Viktor Yushchenko, whose U.S. State Department connections are noted by Stone. Yushchenko’s wife had worked in the White House. When his promised reforms did not occur, Yushchenko’s popularity quickly plummeted, and Yanukovych was elected in 2010.

One of Yanukovych’s first actions was to repeal the Hero of Ukraine award that Yushchenko had conferred on the Nazi collaborator and war criminal Stepan Bandera (https://tinyurl.com/bdf7sf8u), hero of the extremist battalions who were deeply involved in the 2014 Maidan putsch that ousted Yanukovych.

In his interview with Stone for the documentary, Yanukovych explained that the Maidan protests were initially peaceful but were infiltrated by provocateurs, including neo-Nazi extremists. U.S. officials—Victoria Nuland, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)—appeared at the protest. Stone states that the U.S. Embassy appeared to be in charge of the process. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, and Vice President Joe Biden had had discussions about how to “restructure” the Ukrainian government. Three new television stations broadcast the events, and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) helped make them go viral.

The pillars of a color revolution are (tinyurl.com/2e6pkwxs): 1) a semi-autocratic rather than fully autocratic regime; 2) an unpopular incumbent; 3) a united and organized opposition; 4) an ability quickly to drive home the point that voting results were falsified; 5) compliant independent media to inform citizens about the falsified vote; 6) a political opposition capable of mobilizing tens of thousands or more demonstrators to protest electoral fraud; and 7) divisions among the regime’s coercive forces (police and military).

Demonizing the target is crucial, Stone explains—as was done with Yanukovych and Putin. And what about Donald Trump?

In June 2020, former Secretary of State John Kerry warned of a revolution if Trump won the election (https://tinyurl.com/3vkeuxa4). “Cheat by mail” ballots might have had a dual purpose—to increase votes for Biden, or if Trump won, to discredit the results. “Allowing mail-in ballots to be counted as many as 6 days after the election [is] setting the stage so that Americans will doubt the outcome and Biden’s 600+ lawyers will contest the results anywhere possible to further this confusion,” writes Aveni.

The U.S. is not immune to color revolution tactics. “If you understand and see what is really happening across the nation then you know [Black Lives Matter] and Antifa are not reacting to Floyd or injustice of any kind. Thousands of these younger Americans are being used to topple the United States President and the Constitution,” Aveni states. The riots for some reason miraculously fizzled away after Biden was declared the winner.

AFTER 2014

Ukraine and Russia have been on a road to war since 2014, writes retired Swiss military-intelligence officer Jacques Baud. “The first legislative act of the new government resulting from the American-sponsored overthrow of [the democratically-elected] President Yanukovych, was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 that made Russian an official language in Ukraine. A bit like if German putschists decided that French and Italian would no longer be official languages in Switzerland.”

This decision caused a storm in the Russian-speaking population, followed by fierce repression, with horrific massacres, most notably in Odessa and Mariupol. Over eight years, some 2 million Ukrainians from the Donbass region sought refuge in Russia. Ukrainian autonomists resisted, and the army subdued them without being able to prevail. The rebels were armed thanks to the defection of Russian-speaking Ukrainian units that went over to the rebel side. Tank, artillery, and anti-aircraft battalions swelled the ranks of the autonomists, pushing the Ukrainians to commit to the Minsk Agreements, which called for Kiev to negotiate an internal settlement with representatives of the republics seeking autonomy (not independence), but they were not implemented.

With the Ukrainian army in deplorable condition, the Ukrainian government resorted to paramilitary militias. In 2020, they constituted about 40% of the Ukrainian forces and numbered about 102,000 men. They were armed, financed, and trained by the U.S., UK, Canada, and France. Even if one argues that the term “Nazi” is Russian propaganda, these militias are brutal, fanatical, and virulently anti-Semitic. The emblem of the Azov Regiment contains notorious Nazi symbols: the Wolfsangel (Wolf Hook) (tinyurl.com/4fkckupy) superimposed on the Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) (https://tinyurl.com/bdd8m9na).

So, Baud writes, “the West supported and continued to arm militias that have been guilty of numerous crimes against civilian populations since 2014: rape, torture and massacres” (https://tinyurl.com/4avm53eb). No sanctions, no press.