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Private Medicine Trumps Private Equity

Private Medicine Trumps Private Equity

By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD JD –https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/

Over the last couple of years, we’ve been living in a frenzied political atmosphere of inflation worries, unaddressed crime, Covid, monkeypox, and a variety of social issues. These are distractions from thinking about the big picture: the march toward government and corporate control over our lives, including absorbing medical practice into the statist-corporate complex.

While many say that COVID-19 brought out the flaws in public health, it has also highlighted the joys and advantages of private practice medicine. People who are disappointed in the oft-times unscientific public health recommendations and mandates have benefited from seeking advice from private practitioners. Sadly, we are on the road to losing private practice, the heart of good medicine.

A recent article about a private equity purchase of a small rural hospital chronicled in great detail how the firm ran the hospital into the ground. The residents were left with no hospital in their area. That was but one example. Until the last 10 or 15 years, most hospitals were owned either by mainly religious nonprofit entities or by states and cities, with ties to medical schools. Private equity ventures have quadrupled over the last 10 years, and have spent approximately $750 billion during that time period. As Bain Capital put it, 2021 was a “banner year” fueled by an aging population and more chronic illnesses. Private equity firms now control a large swath of hospitals, physician practices, ERs, nursing homes, and hospice centers.

For years, health policy experts have been warning about the dangers of private equity and consolidation in medical services. The focus on return on investment by private equity owners puts profits over patients. One study found that hospitals increased their prices after being acquired by private equity firms. Additionally, studies in nursing homes and dialysis centers have found private equity ownership is associated with not only higher prices, but a decrease in quality of care.

Concurrently, consolidation has been on a roll. Five for-profit insurers now control 43 percent of the market, more than 60 percent of community hospitals belong to a health system, and less than half of physicians own part of a private practice. A large California study found that consolidation of the hospital, physician, and insurance markets increased prices of services as well as ACA premiums. ….

Legally, there is not much we can do about it except protest with our feet. Seek out private practices where you are treated as an individual human being, not an income generator. The ideal practice is a cash-based practice or direct primary or specialty care practice. With direct primary care, a monthly fee covers all doctor visits, drugs dispensed at the office at wholesale prices, and 24/7 access to your doctor. Odd as it may seem, paying cash to see the doctor or have outpatient surgery can be less expensive than buying insurance with its co-pays and high deductibles. All you really need is hospital insurance (unless you are a billionaire). ….

It is up to us to save the patient-physician relationship – and just maybe our republic!

READ FULL ARTICLE: https://aapsonline.org/private-medicine-trumps-private-equity/

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**Comment**

Hopefully, more hospitals will see the light in offering options to patients and will choose patient health and ethics over the dangling carrot of Federal reimbursement. The best way to protest is with your feet. Independent doctors are saving lives, despite being heavily persecuted. They saved mine.

For more:

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Activism

Hospital With Patient Options Enters 9th Month Without Federal Reimbursement. Despite “Vaccine” Mandates Being Dropped, Wisconsin Healthcare Workers Who Had Exemptions Must Get Novavax Shot Or Lose Job

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hospital-that-allows-for-patient-options-in-healthcare-enters-ninth-month-without-federal-reimbursement

Hospital That Allows for Patient Options in Healthcare Enters Ninth Month Without Federal Reimbursement

By Matt McGregor
September 3, 2022

An independent community hospital in Texas, known for allowing patients to choose individualized care plans, is entering its ninth month without Medicare reimbursement for reasons one patient advocate says “don’t add up.”

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) terminated its agreement with United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC) on Jan. 11, 2022, “based on continued serious findings of deficiencies” showing a “failure to meet the minimum required patient safety and quality standards,” CMS told The Epoch Times.  (See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • Priscilla Romans, a former nurse who exited government funded medicine, and owner of the patient-advocacy business Graith Care, has had clients flown to this independent hospital due to the fact they give patients options – not just the top down dictates of the federal government which has bribed hospitals with money to conform to their policies.
  • Romans states there are 64 million enrolled Medicare patients who deserve access to the care options they want.
  • CMS, through the CARES act, reimburses (bribes) hospitals for using “brutal” COVID treatment protocols known as the Fauci death protocol, which includes remdesivir, which is known to be toxic and kills 53% of those who take it. 
  • Hospitals make more money if you die from COVID than if you recover.
  • One such patient option was the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) treatment protocols, which include hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and vitamin C.
  • Attorney Tom Renz asks why CMS hasn’t investigated the hospital that malnourished and neglected the patient who was moved to another facility.  (As with Lyme literate doctors, investigations such as these nit-pick until they find any little nit – making the doctor/hospital look bad.  It’s really a form of punishment for dissenters, not that infractions don’t ever occur, but they occur everywhere, particularly when hospitals are busy and crowded).
  • Hospitals are taking patients off ventilators without informed consent and without family involvement. When relatives advocate for their loved ones to keep them vented, they are told their position “isn’t supported by science.” In one case a judge sided with the family member and helped organize a transfer to a new facility.  The patient was found to be malnourished, dehydrated, and 30 lbs underweight – clear signs of patient neglect.  He made tremendous progress at the new facility but died essentially due to how he was treated for so long at the first facility.
  • Similarly to Dr. Simon Gold a medical doctor and also an attorney who started America’s Frontline Doctors, who was unfairly arrested and is now doing jail time for a misdemeanor simply for peacefully speaking at the Capital in January, UMMC is being used as an example to other hospitals to show what happens to those who don’t toe the line.
Welcome to the New Normal.

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https://www.axios.com/2022/09/09/companies-are-dropping-vaccine-mandates

Sep 9, 2022

Companies are dropping vaccine mandates

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

Excerpts:

Some companies are rolling back mandates for employee COVID vaccination — but few are making official public statements about it.

Why it matters: These moves signal that we’ve shifted into a new chapter of the pandemic — and that employers are desperate to get people back to the office.

What’s happening: “[Companies] decided that the rationale for [mandates] had become weak enough that they don’t want to continue,” Jeff Levin-Scherz, population health leader at Willis Towers Watson, tells Axios.

Zoom out: The White House yesterday called on businesses to take certain actions to protect employees and customers from COVID-19 this fall. Mandates weren’t on the list.

Yet, despite the fact these injections don’t stop transmission, infection, severe illness, or even death – and have actually been linked with more reports of severe reactions and death than any other “vaccine” in the history of VAERS, which historically only captures 1% of reactions:

Wisconsin Healthcare Workers Who Had Religious, Medical Exemptions Must Get Novavax COVID Shot or Lose Job

A Wisconsin hospital this week said it is withdrawing medical and religious exemptions for some employees from the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, giving those employees until Sept. 21 to get the Novavax vaccine.

The hospital is Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, which operates 11 hospitals and more than 45 health centers and clinics throughout the midwest and employs more than 2,000 physicians.

Novavax was granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in July.  Prior COVID-19 shots made by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson used fetal cell lines from unborn fetuses in various stages of development and testing, but the Novavax shot is a protein-based technology purposely created to entice “vaccine” holdouts with ethical concerns about using human fetal cell lines.

But, per usual, few are talking about safety and efficacy.
The ones that are have been jailed, discredited, and bullied.  And the list keeps growing.

Dr. Meryl Nass, a member of the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) scientific advisory committee, pointed out that the Novavax shot contains a novel adjuvant, Matrix-M, “so it is not really an old-fashioned shot.”

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

Andrographis

https://vitalplan.com/ingredients/andrographis

Andrographis

By Vital Plan

Reviewed by Bill Rawls, MD
Medical Director of Vital Plan

QUICK FACTS

Common name: Andrographis
Scientific name: Andrographis paniculata
Other names: King of bitters, kirta or kirata (Sanskrit), kiryata (Hindi), kalmegh (Bengali, Hindi, Unani), hempedu bumi (Malaysia), creat, green chiretta, Indian chiretta, chuan xin lian (traditional Chinese medicine)
Location: Native to India
Known for: Its bitter taste and potent antimicrobial and immune-supportive properties
Part Used: Aerial parts (leaf, stem, and flowers)
Fun fact: In Scandinavia, andrographis is a popular herbal flu remedy.1
Good for: Fighting acute and chronic infections, immune health, microbiome balance, liver protection, proper bile flow
Key Properties & Actions: Antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiparasitic, immunomodulating, hepatoprotective, digestive bitter tonic, cholagogue (stimulates bile flow), anti-inflammatory, antioxidant

Summary

Andrographis is a bitter-tasting herb renowned for its antimicrobial and immune-supportive effects. Native to India, it has long been used to support the immune system, digestion, and the liver. Modern research shows it can be helpful in fighting infections, as well as providing various other benefits.

What is Andrographis?

Andrographis is a shrubby annual plant whose intensely bitter leaves have led to its moniker, “king of bitters.” Growing one to three feet in height, this herb prefers the shady, moist habitat of a forest or wetland but is also seen growing in plains, hillsides, and farms. In the fall, andrographis bears small white flowers with brown or purple spots.

White flower and fresh green leaves of andrographis paniculata o

Although andrographis is native to India, it has been introduced to and can be found growing in China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, the islands of the Caribbean and West Indian Ocean, and parts of North America and Central America. In many areas, but especially in Asia, andrographis is prized as a traditional medicinal herb and often used for infections, fevers, and liver disorders.

In the last few decades, research on andrographis has increased, with in vitro (in a test tube or petri dish) and in vivo (in a living model) clinical studies confirming the traditional usages of the herb. Today, it is primarily used for its microbiome-balancing, immune-supportive, and liver-protective qualities, although it offers a variety of other health benefits.

Benefits of Andrographis and How It Works

Antimicrobial Support
Antibacterial Activity

For centuries, andrographis has been used to fight various kinds of infections, including those caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. In the last decade, scientific interest in andrographis has accelerated, with particular focus on its antimicrobial qualities.
Researchers have reported that andrographis extract possesses potent antibacterial activity against numerous kinds of bacteria.2

An in vitro study found andrographis to inhibit the growth of bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus, which can lead to antibiotic-resistant infections, Escherichia coli, which can cause digestive distress, Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera, and Salmonella typhi, which causes typhoid fever.3

Andrographis can also be useful in helping to break down biofilms, which shield bacteria from the efforts of the immune system and antibiotics.4

Antiviral Activity

Andrographolide is a biologically active compound in andrographis that is known for its broad-spectrum antiviral properties. It has been proposed that andrographolide intervenes in multiple steps of the viral life cycle, including viral entry, genetic material replication, and protein synthesis.5

Andrographolide has shown in vitro activity against viruses like herpes simplex 1, Epstein-Barr, and influenza A.6

More recently, in vitro studies have demonstrated the inhibitory effect of andrographolide against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19.5

Antifungal and Antiparasitic Activity

In folk medicine, andrographis has been used for fungal infections for centuries. Preliminary in vitro studies justify this use, especially in relation to fungal skin infections.2,7

Likewise, in vitro studies indicate andrographis can be of benefit when used against various parasites.4

In a 2013 animal study, andrographis extract exerted antimalarial activity in mice infected with Plasmodium berghei, a parasite that causes malaria in certain rodents. In vitro studies have also suggested that andrographis has antimalarial action.4,8

Enhanced Immune Function

Andrographis is well known for having an affinity for respiratory infections as well as being able to shorten the duration of an illness.6 Its antimicrobial qualities and its ability to modulate the immune system make this possible.

A systematic review of randomized controlled trials concluded that andrographis is beneficial in shortening the duration of and improving acute respiratory tract infection symptoms.9

Additionally, andrographolide has demonstrated direct and indirect effects against cancer cells in in vitro studies, including inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells and inducing the destruction of cancer cells.2

Liver Protection and Function

Andrographis is widely used to protect the liver and support its function. Thanks to its bitter phytochemical compounds, andrographis can stimulate liver enzymes and promote healthy bile flow, which in turn, enhances digestion and detoxification.

Andrographis’s liver-protective qualities have been well documented in modern scientific research. A 2014 animal study showed andrographis extract exerts hepatoprotective effects in acute liver toxicity situation. It was proposed that this effect was due to the herb’s ability to fight free radicals, inhibit cellular proliferation, and induce a form of programmed cell death known as apoptosis.10

In a 2020 animal study, andrographis extract reduced oxidative stress and liver damage in mice.11

leaves of andrographis paniculata, commonly known as creat or green chiretta, Acanthaceae, pathogen inactivation on coronaviruses is very important, note select focus

Joint Health and Comfort

Andrographis may be better known for its antimicrobial and liver-protective properties, but it also has the impressive benefit of easing joint discomfort. Much of this ability is due to the way it can calm overactive immune and inflammatory responses. A double-blind, placebo-controlled human study administered andrographis extract to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients three times a day. After 14 weeks, RA patients experienced decreased joint pain.12

Animal studies show that andrographis has multiple anti-inflammatory actions that contribute to this effect. It reduces pro-inflammatory cytokines but can also encourage cell death of immune cells in joints that cause excess inflammation and tissue damage.13

Healthy Energy Levels

In a 2016 double-blind, placebo-controlled human clinical trial, multiple sclerosis (MS) patients receiving interferon beta treatment were given 170 mg of andrographis extract or placebo two times daily over a period of 12 months. MS patients taking the andrographis extract had a significant reduction in fatigue compared to placebo.14 Although the exact mechanisms of action are unknown, the authors of the study suggest that the herb’s anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects may contribute to the reduction in fatigue.

History & Traditional Use

Andrographis has a long history of use in traditional systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Unani, and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Across the board, andrographis has been relied on to enhance immune function, resist infections, support digestion, and protect the liver.

In Ayurveda, an ancient Indian medical system, andrographis is a common ingredient in herbal formulations used for liver conditions.15 It is also commonly used to increase appetite and strengthen digestion. The leaf juice is a traditional household remedy for stomach distress, but it is also used to remove parasites, promote bile flow, and reduce fever. Just after the Spanish flu of 1918, the Indian flu hit in 1919, and andrographis was used widely and largely credited with helping halt the spread of the epidemic.

From a TCM perspective, the bitter qualities of andrographis, or chuan xin lian, are believed to clear heat from the blood, which can look like infections or toxins. It is specifically used in cases of colds, flu, fever, cough, skin conditions, bronchitis, tonsillitis, and many more conditions.6

In Malaysia, a decoction of the aerial parts is used for the common cold, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, malaria, and snakebites.16

How to Use and Dosing

Andrographis paniculata or Kariyat leaf plant with herb capsules to treating covid-19 coronavirus viral infection.

The Ayurvedic name for andrographis translates to “king of bitters,” so it is often preferred and best taken in capsule form to avoid its bitter taste.

A standardized extract of andrographis is ideal and should be standardized to 10% to 30% andrographolides. General dosing for a standardized extract is 200-800 mg, two to three times daily. If using a tincture, ​​1.5-3 mL, 2-4 times daily is standard.

To enhance immune function, andrographis can be combined with reishi mushroom, lion’s mane mushroom, cat’s claw, Japanese knotweed, garlic, Chinese skullcap, turmeric, cordyceps, astragalus, and echinacea.

For added liver support, consider pairing andrographis with herbs like milk thistle, turmeric, schisandra, and dandelion root.

Interactions

There are no known significant interactions, however, animal studies suggest andrographis may modify glucose regulation, so be aware if using hypoglycemic drugs.

Always check with your health care practitioner before use if you are taking medications. For more general education on potential interactions between herbs and medications, check out Dr. Bill Rawls’ article: Is it Safe to Take Herbs with My Medications?

Precautions & Side effects

About 1% of people who take andrographis develop an allergic reaction with whole-body hives and itching skin. The reaction will resolve gradually over several weeks after stopping the use of the herb.

Avoid the use of this herb during pregnancy.

Disclaimer: This information is intended only as general education and should not be substituted for professional medical advice. Any mentioned general dosage options, safety notices, or possible interactions with prescription drugs are for educational purposes only and must be considered in the context of each individual’s health situation and the quality and potency of the product being used. Use this information only as a reference in conjunction with the guidance of a qualified healthcare practitioner.

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Herbs, research, Treatment

A Deer, A Cow, And Learning to Heal From Lyme Disease

https://www.lymedisease.org/deer-cow-lyme-disease-bennett/

A deer, a cow, and learning to heal from Lyme disease

Sept. 6, 2022

by Jamie Bennett

What is your health worth to you? If lost, how far would you go to get it back? These are questions I’ve had a lot of time to think about.

I was living the life. Upwardly mobile in my career, a major crimes detective in her prime. Sure, I had the occasional strep throat, flu, or overall yucky day, but nothing that I thought was different from everyone else. Things were under control, predictable, and manageable…until they weren’t.

After moving to a 26-acre farm and getting pregnant with my third child, things started to change. I. Was. Exhausted. I could barely function, and things that we normally don’t even think about became major blocks.

I had to crawl up stairs because my legs burned, I was short of breath, my heart was on its own agenda, and my head wanted to explode. Taking a shower seemed like a marathon, and I would have to rest when I was done.

The doctors assured me that these were just pregnancy side effects. They said these problems would go away when my son, Thomas, was born.

No symptoms resolved

Once I was a stay-at-home mother of three, however, things never got better. In fact, they were worse. None of my symptoms resolved, but I was too focused on my newborn son to make them a priority.

My little man, who never cried when born, began to regress. Each time he was given a vaccination he would “disappear” for a few days. Then, at 19 months, he didn’t bounce back. My son no longer looked at me. He looked through me with glazed-over eyes. He became completely nonverbal and showed no interest in interacting with others. Classic signs of a spectrum disorder.

After my son’s diagnosis of high-functioning autism, I started biomedically treating him. I was living on adrenaline, squeezing every little bit out of my already-depleted reserves to stay up and research. I altered his diet, got him into speech and physical therapy, and eventually put him in the Head Start program in our county.

We traveled for hours, crossed state lines, and stayed overnight in hotels to see specialists. If it was available, we did it. And he improved! Our son went from having a low IQ to one that was above average. We were making progress, but still, it seemed we were missing something.

Meanwhile, my health that had been put on the back burner needed to be addressed. I was getting worse, and I needed to figure out why. I saw primary care physicians, neurologists, endocrinologists, infectious disease specialists, cardiologists, you name it!

They diagnosed me with a million things, from hypoparathyroidism to congenital heart defects, but no one could find the smoking gun—the root cause of all of my health problems.

I had muscle biopsies, EKGs, EMGs, MRIs, SPECT scans, radioactive scans, heart ablations, bones fused, and organs removed. In response, doctors offered narcotics and various speculations about a cause. First, I was being poisoned. Then, it was psychosomatic. From there I had muscle myopathy, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, early onset Parkinson’s, and ALS. We continued to treat the symptoms without knowing their cause.

The smoking gun–Lyme disease

Eventually, a doctor found my smoking gun—Lyme disease and its many co-infections. Evidently, I had contracted Lyme and other tick-borne diseases before conceiving my son, and then transferred it to him in utero. In addition, my defiant and academically struggling daughter also tested positive for Lyme.

Fast forward through several years of homeschooling, PICC lines, oral antibiotics, herbals, special diets—including the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and the Autoimmune Paleo protocol—and more doctor visits than we could count. Here you will find us chugging along just like everyone else. Unfortunately, we’re not like everyone else.

Every single person in my family has been diagnosed with at least one tick-borne disease, if not several.  Yet, healing is possible. My son is now testing gifted and in a math program two years above his grade. My daughter is climbing the corporate ladder, one of the youngest to have achieved her position at the company where she works.

And me? Well, after researching the effect of nutrition and biomedical intervention on Lyme, autism, inflammation, and autoimmune disease for two decades, I went back to school.

Functional nutrition

I earned a certification as a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Autoimmune Paleo coach so I could help others from a nutritional and biomedical standpoint. Emotionally, I’d say we’re not worse for wear, but our health will always keep us on our toes.

Through all of our difficult times, my mother was my rock, biggest cheerleader, and best friend. Three years ago, she encouraged me to share our story, and I took up that challenge.

The result is a book called There’s A Deer At The Door And A Cow In The Mudroom: Learning to Live while Living with Lyme. My goal is to help others by sharing what I learned from those dark years. Our family’s transformation through faith, farming, and chronic illness was a roller coaster of emotions and learning lessons but certainly not all bad.

The deer my daughter rehabilitated was as instrumental to her recovery as her medication. Waking to find the deer waiting at the door gave her a reason to get up and continue to fight each day. The calf–it really was in the mudroom. It become one of the many farm lessons that molded my children, teaching them to live each moment as though they were never sick.

My mother didn’t live to see the publication of this book, but she was instrumental in helping to bring it about.

My family healed through our various experiences. I hope that learning about what we did can help you heal, too.

Jamie Bennett maintains a website geared towards helping people obtain optimal health. Click here for more information about her book.

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**Comment**

Great read and the book sounds marvelous.  Notice the little nuggets of truth:

  • A “vaccine” once again seemingly served as a trigger for health problems.  They are not safe and effective for ALL people and the risk/benefit ratio MUST be considered by each person. Medicine is not “one size fits all,” and the COVID debacle set us back to the Dark Ages in this area.  Never allow someone bully you into making a decision that YOU and you alone will have to live with for the rest of your life.
  • Necessity pushed this mother to find answers. There are silver linings in having to deal with poor health if you refuse to quit.  There will be dark days for sure, but keep on chugging.
  • Notice how this woman’s mother was her bulwark.  Be a bulwark for someone.  You will never know how your words could help someone out of a dark pit.  I’ve shared it before but it’s worth repeating: I was told by my children’s martial arts teacher, “Lyme has nothing on you.  You have an indomitable spirit and you will survive this.”  At the time I felt anything but indomitable and was questioning the reason for even trudging on.  But, after those words were uttered, I felt myself revive deep inside.  I will never forget those life-affirming, saving words.
  • Notice all the misdiagnoses.  This is a common theme with Lyme/MSIDS and until the root issue of tick-borne illness is dealt with, you will not fully regain your health; however due to politicization, it is often the last thing dealt with.
  • Notice how ALL the things learned and used had a cumulative effect on health.  While addressing the infection(s) is crucial, there are many other facets that also need addressing such as detoxification, hormones, minerals/vitamins, exercise, sleep, psychological issues including anxiety, PTSD, trauma, and so on – and each patient has different needs requiring different methods and treatments. This illness is highly individualized and takes a savvy approach – again, not a “one size fits all” approach – which allopathic medicine ascribes to.
  • Notice the daughter’s rehabilitation of a deer was as important to her recovery as directed treatment.  This deer helped her get her mind off of herself.  We all need something to help us overcome our own selves!  We can actually stand in our own way in healing.  We need productive, healthy outlets to focus on with what little energy we have.
  • Some of the best ideas come from other patients willing to take the time to share their stories and what helped them.  Even if their ideas don’t work for you, it will nudge you to keep looking.
NEVER EVER QUIT!

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Activism, Autism, diet and nutrition, Gut Health, Heart Issues, Lyme, Treatment, vaccines

Lockdown Ineptitude: How Ukraine, Food Shortages, & ‘Climate Change’ Are Being Used To Make the Public Look The Other Way

This post is a deep dive into numerous topics that are interrelated but crucial to understand if you are a Lyme/MSIDS patient.  Once again, we are being bamboozled on multiple fronts.  My purpose for this post is for education and awareness. Take it in chunks if it’s overwhelming, and really ponder the information presented.

Completely Failed Pandemic Response 

By now, nearly everyone is admitting lockdowns and masks are worse than pointless in curbing a pandemic.  Many have admitted the verifiable fact that the highly praised magic bullet “vaccines” that are actually gene therapy injections do not stop transmission or infection and are linked to more adverse event/death reports than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS (yet they continue to peddle them).  There’s even been admissions that natural immunity is superior to the injections that have failed on virtually every count while damaging thousands in the process.  Politicians have admitted that governments gave too much power to scientists during COVID lockdowns and were not honest about the potential downsides.  The very public health “authorities” that pushed the comically fruitless endeavors have attempted lame attempts to defend themselves, but have actually learned nothing as they brazenly ask for more money to have even more power than they had before.

But the COVID ‘pandemic’ was never truly about a virus. It has always been about something much, much bigger:

http://  Approx. 7 Min

WEF has been ‘upfront’ about ‘Great Reset’ agenda

Oct. 7, 2022

  • “WEF founder Klaus Schwab even wrote about it in a book entitled The Great Reset – that’s where you’ll own nothing and be happy,” Mr Bernardi said.
  • “These same leaders celebrate movements that rely on deceit, destruction and chaos to divide society while a largely compliant media mostly report only the official interpretation of events. He said “agents of political change” are now so emboldened they will “happily lie and seem to have no fear of being exposed”.
  • “They will misrepresent everything, from war to science, from economics to biology, in order to condition you to endorse what is unacceptable,” Mr Bernardi said.
  • “These things are being done before our very eyes, and yet, most people refuse to see.”

Ultimate goal: override nations’ sovereignty to give globalists complete control

The Conspirators are:
  • WEF and associated politicians
    • Gates Foundation
    • CEPI – founded by Gates
    • WHO
    • Wellcome Trust
    • Rockefeller Foundation
    • CCP
    • GAVI
    • Eco Health Alliance
    • CDC, NIH, FDA, regulatory agencies across the world
    • Vaccine manufacturers
    • Corporate media & big tech
    • Hospital systems

Dr. Peter McCullough: “This is a crime on a worldwide global magnitude … Everyone involved in this syndicate should be brought to justice.”

Ukraine War

Regarding the war in Ukraine, recently Jimmy Dore explains connections and the ugly history in two short minutes as well as the fact Ukraine has lost so many soldiers that they are now kidnapping new “recruits” in broad daylight.  In short, Russia’s President Vladamir Putin exposed NATO’s plan to destroy Russia’s sovereignty and announced a massive expansion of the war in Ukraine. This throws a big, ugly wrench in The Great Reset, which requires centralized, global control to pretty much everything on planet earth.  Destroying sovereignty is key to this plan, and a leaked COVID shot indemnification agreement forces countries to put up sovereign assets, bank reserves, military bases, and embassy buildings as collateral.  None of this is not by accident.

Please remember that up until the war, the world has known that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.  All that changed when the U.S. suddenly elevated it to darling status by sending billions of taxpayer dollars over there to support a war for its own vested interests.  The U.S. State Department released an updated report on Human Rights abuses in Ukraine which includes: “unlawful or arbitrary killings; forced disappearances; torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; harsh or life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest or detention; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; restrictions on freedom of expression, including for members of the media, violence or threats of violence against journalists, unjustified arrests or prosecutions of”journalists, and censorship; serious restrictions on internet freedom; refoulement of refugees to a country despite risks they would face torture or persecution; serious acts of government corruption; lack of investigation of and accountability for gender-based violence; crimes or threats of violence motivated by antisemitism; crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting persons with disabilities, members of ethnic minority groups, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons; and the existence of the worst forms of child labor.”

But none of this apparently matters because this week, the U.S. has committed to send Ukraine an extra $350 million in weapons and equipment for an “expected spring offensive.”

Speaking of vested interests…..

DOD records have exposed that the U.S. has been funding biolabs in Ukraine (as well as other countries) which essentially is a ‘jobs program’ for foreign scientists experimenting with deadly pathogens.  The funding by Metabiota is the company that was invested into by Rosemont Seneca, which was Hunter Biden’s VC firm.

An alleged Rand Corporation leaked document from January shows U.S. planned the European energy crisis and economic collapse to save the U.S. economy.  Russian sanctions were planned from the start and with the collapse of the European Union’s economy, up to $9 BILLION will flow back into the U.S. The key objective is to divide Europe.

What better way to force this to happen than to destroy the abundant, cheap source of gas for much of Europe. In probably the biggest story of the year, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote an in-depth article on how America took out the Nord Stream pipeline.  While the NY Times called it a “mystery,” and Russia repeatedly cited as a likely culprit due to calculated leaks from the White House, Hersh exposes how Navy divers operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise called BALTIPS 22, planted and remotely triggered explosives that destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines three months later.  The reason the divers were Navy only?  So covert operations didn’t have to be reported to Congress and briefed in advance to the Senate and the House, the so-called Gang of Eight.

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH UKRAINE?

Everything.  US and NATO are fighting a proxy war against Russia via Ukraine (which is completely reliant upon external support), but more specifically two of the pipelines had provided Germany of much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade and the second pair, called Nord Stream 2, were not operational but were poised to double the amount of cheap gas that would be available.  When Russian troops stood on the Ukrainian border with the potential for the “bloodiest war in Europe since 1945,” Biden saw the pipelines as a vehicle for Putin to weaponize natural gas. The “designer war” began all the way back in 2014 when America and the EU helped overthrow a democratically elected government in Ukraine for their own nefarious purposes.

Of course the White House calls all of this pure fiction, despite Biden and Undersecretary Nuland both stating,“If Russia invades . . . there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”  According to someone with access to diplomatic intelligence the CIA was asked to prepare a cover story in collaboration with German intelligence that would provide the press with an alternative story and to “pulse the system” to discount the claim that Biden ordered the pipeline’s destruction.  All of this makes sense when you understand that despite the incompetence, plagiarism, and corruption of EU President Ursula von der Leyen, she spearheaded the US-led NATO proxy war in Russia due to her Nazi roots and her subservience to the U.S. imperialist objective to defeat Moscow. 

Neil Oliver (starting at 5:20) also hits on how the war in Ukraine is also being used by something and someone who needs their populations to look the other way. Biden, Trudeau, Johnson, Macron, Von der Leyen, and a long list of bought out leaders blame Putin for the energy crisis that was made inevitable years ago by the “doctrine of ruinous, ideologically-driven nonsense presented as world-saving environmental policies that only denied us any hope of  energy independence.” ~ Neil Oliver

But, purposely destroying the pipeline sure helped too.

Oliver also warns to not be fooled into thinking this disaster movie is coming to an end:

“The COVID and lockdown double act is expendable. They’ve rung all the juice they are ever going to get out of that rotten fruit and now it’s ready to be cast aside. Or maybe it will just go on the back burner while other fresher concoctions are brought forward.  Either way, someone somewhere seems to have decided it’s time to move on. ~ Neil Oliver

Predictably, Biden declared the pandemic over, but we have to wait until May 11, 2023.

Meanwhile the WHO is doing a full-court press to get it’s pandemic treaty signed so countries have no control over the next time the WHO declares a pandemic out of thin air.  Biden appears all too willing to sign this frightening agreement described by some as a “dystopian nightmare,” which supersedes the Constitution.

Concoctions to distract and overwhelm are appearing everywhere and have included:

It clearly appears another “fresher concoction” is the climate change agenda as pointed out by The Highwire in this excellent 5 min. video.

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Oct. 3, 2022

Wonder no more, Climate Dissenters Are Censored

UN Undersecretary for Global Communications, Melissa Ruth Flemming, explains how they partnered with  Google to put UN Resources at the top of searches.

“We own the science.” ~ Melissa Ruth Flemming

Flemming also stated that Facebook and other social media sites are working together with the UN to “shift” their algorithms to favor institutions over individuals, lest a “Joe Conspiracy Theorist’ – her denigrating term for the average person, be allowed to have a voice.

Again, the globalists are reading from the same script:

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Sept. 30, 2022

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Also Trying to Shut Down Free Speech

Ponder this: if they are censoring/manipulating information about “climate change”, then they can censor/manipulate information about anything – including Lyme/MSIDS.

Speaking of getting people to look the other way, and creating chaos and hate, I would be remiss if I didn’t remind the reader of the attempt to create an Orwellian misinformation board to censor dissenting voices, headed by none other than Nina Jankowicz, aka – Scary Poppins, a pro-government cheerleader for political propaganda.  I would also be remiss in not reminding the reader of the overt government collusion with social media and advertising. Companies that failed to suppress “disinformation” were threatened with antitrust investigations.  Just last year it was “disinformation” to claim that ‘vaccines’ fail to prevent contracting or transmitting COVID, when breakthrough infections became almost redundant, and its been proven that the mRNA shots don’t prevent transmission, severe illness, or even death.

Censorship continues

University of Adelaide researchers have found that between 60-80% of tweets using hashtags relating to the war in Ukraine came from bot accounts during the first two weeks of he war which drove the angst in online discourse and impacted discussions.  Bots farms have also been used to send personalized deceptive propaganda en masse & verbatim across several media platforms, often posing as healthcare professionals to gain acceptance for lockdowns, shame and segregate the unvaccinated, (one was caught spreading lies about the unvaccinated to garner public support for vaccine passports and a system of segregation against healthy, naturally-immune people), discourage and demoralize dissenters, and for pushing the experimental COVID gene therapy injections which have only been given emergency use authorization (EUA). 

It’s been discovered that the Rockefeller Foundation  has started the Mercury Project which invested $7.2 million in behavior research focused on convincing more people to get the COVID jab and to counter health mis- and dis- information. It also joined George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) in funding local community efforts to inject residents with the COVID-19 shots.  An Orthodox Jewish community has been targeted by these organizations and the campaign is run by a fellow resident funded by VALUE, BMOREVaxxed initiative which is in turn funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and OSI. A cozy relationship for sure.

Jordan Peterson, states that the global protests show that the peddlers of environmental doom have shown their true totalitarian colors by fact they have gone too far.  Use of “emergency force” to obtain their climate agenda will make everyone poorer, particularly those who are already poor, and it will make the environment worse, not better.

“The suffering is certain, the benefits ethereal.”

“Save the planet with your own choices but quit demanding the rest of us blindly follow your dictates. ~ Jordon Peterson

This report states that ‘Life will come to a stop’ and Europe is facing a bleak winter and faces “energy rationing” due to a power crisis. It is estimated that 60% of British factories are at risk of failing as energy bills soar. 

“And all of this because – twenty years ago we passed a ‘climate change’ act, we updated it with this massive commitment to net zero.” ~ Nigel Farage Brexit Party Leader

It’s just easier to blame Putin for everything, and climate change.

Net Zero is just as impossible as Zero COVID.  Neither work and both kill.

While U.S. leaders continually fund a foreign war with our tax dollars, there is a glimmer of hope in the U.K. from the new U.K. Prime Ministers, Liz Truss who promises to take action immediately to help people and businesses with bills and to take decisive action to tackle the root cause of the problems so they are not in this position again.  Time will tell.

Here in the U.S., it’s important to remember that the economy was in great shape in 2019, just 3 short years ago.  What changed?  We are being told unemployment and inflation are very low, which if true, doesn’t explain why food banks all over the U.S. are overwhelmed.

Please read this informative piece which gives three statements on inflation:

  • Inflation is a policy.  Inflation is engineered.
    • Proving this, go to this October, 2020 article about a food shortage simulation put on by “leaders of thought” which predicted a 400% increase in food prices by 2030.  In the simulation, one governmental solution was a tax on meat. Another? A global carbon tax.  Seems things are going according to plan and should sound quite familiar.
  • Inflation is nothing less than sanctioned state terror.
  • Hyperinflation can happen here.

Important quote:

So, next time one of these sociopaths in our political class wants to spend a few trillion more to pay for a green new deal or a war with China or free college, remember Frau Eisenmenger’s story. ~ Jeff Deist from Mises Wire

Please keep in mind the billions our government has spent on COVID injections, which don’t do anything we were told they do, have caused the “vaccinated” to get COVID at higher rates than the unvaccinated and have caused more adverse reactions and death than any other “vaccine” in the history of VAERS.  In fact, excess mortality DOUBLED for Americans aged 35-44 according to new Society of Actuaries data.  Yet, the NIH has the gall to ask for even more money despite the billions they already get as well as receiving millions in secret payments. 

Stand for Health Freedom lists the top 10 COVID policy mistakes that couldn’t be fixed with more data or funding.  It’s not about money.  It’s about honestly.  These shysters need to go.

70,000 protested in Prague against the Czech government, the EU, and NATO recently due to soaring energy prices, inflation, and for sanctions against Russia.  Organizers have vowed to stage further protests unless the government resigns by September 25.

And 40 CEOs representing Europe’s largest non-ferrous metals producers gave a desperate plea urging emergency EU action to prevent permanent deindustrialisation from spiraling electricity and gas prices.  In March energy prices began their exponential rise after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exposed Europe’s self-defeating ‘green’ energy policy.

The handling of COVID, ‘climate change,’ food shortages, and the war in Ukraine are all interrelated. 

   

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Regarding food, the EAT forum, cofounded by the Wellcome Trust and the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2014, has developed what they call “The Planetary Health Diet,” intended to be applied worldwide. It entails cutting meat and dairy intake by up to 90%, and replacing it with foods made in laboratories, along with cereals and oils, most of which are now genetically engineered (GE).  Their largest initiative is called FReSH, which aims to transform the food system by working with biotech and fake meat companies to replace whole foods with lab-created alternatives — all in the name of climate change prevention and “sustainability.”  Source

It has recently been exposed that lab-grown meat is 25 times worse for the environment and is likely to cause health problems due to being ultra-processed. Ingredients in the new fermented synthetic biology products are cheap sugars derived from genetically engineered (GE) corn and soy. GE crops are grown in environmentally destructive monocultures that use loads of herbicides, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. As a result, they’re loaded with chemical residues. Lab-grown meats are not about your health or the environment’s; they’re a tool to phase out farmers and ranchers and replace them with a product controlled by patents.

If you feel this is an exaggeration, the Dutch city of Haarlem will become the first in the world to ban most, if not all, meat advertisements from public spaces in an attempt to affect climate change. 

But that’s just the tip of the ice-berg.  

Food is now being bioweaponized.
This too spells doom for Lyme/MSIDS patients, and virtually all of mankind.  Afterall, food is medicine.

The completely corrupt UN which operates in complete secrecy and is shielded by diplomatic immunity, stopped destroying the world long enough to publish a piece justifying their behavior by actually explaining the many “benefits” of the famine they’ve engineered.  “Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labor.”  Source

This remained on the UN website for a day before being deleted after going viral.

While I don’t enjoy posting information on war, the climate, and food shortages – it’s vital we wake up to the propaganda because it’s prolific.  I do it because they are interrelated as well for as these reasons:

  1. Lyme/MSIDS patients are usually sick, tired, have trouble with cognitive function, and are financially poor due to having to shell out thousands of dollars on treatments not covered by insurance. They don’t have time, energy, or the mental ability (due to a brain infection that makes us forget words) to sift through mountains of information to accumulate logical, concise information to base decisions upon. Patients are already bullied and gas-lit for being ill with a highly politicized disease. You need to know you are not alone in your observation that “something is rotten in Denmark.”
  2. The Lyme/MSIDS debacle falls into the same political agendas and propaganda as “climate change” and the scientific and political/governmental fraud/corruption, being peddled to the public on a daily basis. It’s overwhelmingly overt if you are paying attention.

I’ve posted continually on the “climate change” agenda and the fact it’s a coverup for governmental “climate engineering” and is a huge money maker for leaders who are political, emotionally driven, unscientific, and the worst hypocrites on the planet.  Climate experts have stated that the simple reason the climate narrative is being followed is due to the fact scientists are on a gravy train to secure research funding. This article states that a recent Oxford study, along with similar pronouncements that the transition to the green energy grid will be painless or profitable is easily debunkable pernicious propaganda, and is a scam from top to bottom and then takes the time to delineate exactly why.

Similarly to the climate being blamed for tick/disease proliferation rather than the fact our own government experimented upon ticks and dropped them out of airplanes, the war in Ukraine, the sudden economic doom, and the planned ‘pandemics’ are on a constant daily feed – thrust in front of us so we won’t dig deeper and notice the evil connections, particularly the very real pharmaceutical, environmental and medical toxins being unleashed in mass upon an unsuspecting public by a corrupt government in bed with Big Pharma.  And, Lyme/MSIDS patients are particularly vulnerable to these toxins – but so are children, pregnant women, and other vulnerable groups.

Circling back to the war, it’s important to note that targeting Russian issues would have been a prime topic for the derailed “misinformation” board headed by Jankowicz.  The public has largely, uncritically recited what they have been told about the Ukranian conflict – elevating a country known globally as being one of the most corrupt in the world to rock-star humanitarian status. US tax dollars are pouring into Ukrainian coffers to the tune of $1.5 BILLION per month, but Congress is poised to push through another $12 BILLION, despite Americans opposing this increase in aid.  Money also has been going to the office of the commissioner for human rights who spurred lurid reports of Russian troops raping babies until she was tossed out of her job because there was no evidence for the allegations.  But, until she was fired, denying the rapes was “disinformation.”

It’s the old slight of hand trick used by magicians for decades, and our leaders are experts in using it.

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Sept. 1, 2022

New Zealanders Waking up to Jacinda Ardern’s ‘Gross Ineptitude’

Sky News host Rita Panahi says New Zealanders are finally waking up to the “gross ineptitude” of their “lockdown happy Prime Minister”. “After enjoying one of the longest political honeymoons in modern politics, thanks largely to adoring media coverage,” she said. “Jacinda Ardern and her Labour party are facing some ugly poll numbers and protests.”

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