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The following excerpt is from Vandana Shiva’s book forests, as we turn farms Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Free- into industrial monocul- dom (Chelsea Green Publishing, August 2020) and is tures that produce toxic, reprinted with permission from the publisher. Available nutritionally empty com- wherever books are sold. modities, as our diets become degraded through n March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the industrial processing with coronavirus during a TED Talk and told the audi- synthetic chemicals and genetic engineering, and as an erasure of democracy and biodiversity, of nature and ence that it was what the greatest catastrophe of we perpetuate the illusion that earth and life are raw culture. His ‘philanthropy’ is not just philanthrocapital- our time would look like. The real threat to life, materials to be exploited for profits, we are indeed ism. It is philanthroimperialism. he said, is ‘not missiles, but microbes.’ When connecting. But instead of connecting on a contin- The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown have Ithe coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth like a uum of health by protecting biodiversity, integrity, revealed even more clearly how we are being reduced tsunami five years later, he revived the war language, and self-organization of all living beings, including to objects to be controlled, with our bodies and minds describing the pandemic as ‘a world war’. humans, we are connected through disease. as the new colonies to be invaded. Empires create colo- ‘The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity nies, colonies enclose the commons of the indigenous against the virus,’ he said. ɶɶ living communities and turn them into sources of raw In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a material to be extracted for profits. This linear, extrac- consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical This linear, extractive logic tive logic is unable to see the intimate relations that mind connected to the money machine of extraction has sustain life in the natural world. It is blind to diversity, created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, is unable to see the intimate cycles of renewal, values of giving and sharing, and and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited. the power and potential of self-organising and mutual- But, in fact, we are part of the biome. And we are part of ity. It is blind to the waste it creates and to the violence the virome. The biome and the virome are us. When we relations that sustain life it unleashes. The extended coronavirus lockdown has wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, been a lab experiment for a future without humanity. and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves. in the natural world. On March 26, 2020, at a peak of the coronavirus The health emergency of the coronavirus is insepara- pandemic and in the midst of the lockdown, Microsoft ble from the health emergency of extinction, the health According to the International Labour Organization, was granted a patent by the World Intellectual Prop- emergency of biodiversity loss, and the health emer- ‘1.6 billion informal economy workers (representing the erty Organization (WIPO). Patent WO-2020-060606 gency of the climate crisis. All of these emergencies most vulnerable in the labour market), out of a world- declares that ‘Human Body Activity associated with a are rooted in a mechanistic, militaristic, anthropocentric wide total of two billion and a global workforce of 3.3 task provided to a user may be used in a mining process worldview that considers humans separate from – and billion, have suffered massive damage to their capac- of a cryptocurrency system…’ superior to – other beings. Beings we can own, manipu- ity to earn a living. This is due to lockdown measures The ‘body activity’ that Microsoft wants to mine late, and control. All of these emergencies are rooted and/or because they work in the hardest-hit sectors.’ includes radiation emitted from the human body, brain in an economic model based on the illusion of limit- According to the World Food Programme, a quarter of activities, body fluid flow, blood flow, organ activity, less growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary a billion additional people will be pushed to hunger and body movement such as eye movement, facial move-

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boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and 300,000 could die every day. These, too, are pandemics ment, and muscle movement, as well as any other individual species. that are killing people. Killing cannot be a prescription activities that can be sensed and represented by images, New diseases arise because a globalized, industrial- for saving lives. waves, signals, texts, numbers, degrees, or any other ized, inefficient agriculture invades habitats, destroys Health is about life and living systems. There is no information or data. ecosystems, and manipulates animals, plants, and ‘life’ in the paradigm of health that Bill Gates and his The patent is an intellectual property claim over our other organisms with no respect for their integrity ilk are promoting and imposing on the entire world. bodies and minds. In colonialism, colonisers assign or their health. We are linked worldwide through the Gates has created global alliances to impose top-down themselves the right to take the land and resources of spread of diseases like the coronavirus because we analysis and prescriptions for health problems. He indigenous people, extinguish their cultures and sover- have invaded the homes of other species, manipu- gives money to define the problems, and then he uses eignty, and in extreme cases exterminate them. Patent lated plants and animals for commercial profits and his influence and money to impose the solutions. And WO 060606 is a declaration by Microsoft that our bodies 4 greed, and cultivated monocultures. As we clear-cut in the process, he gets richer. His ‘funding’ results in and minds are its new colonies. We are continued p.15… Covid-19 by Kamran Abbasi politicisation, “corruption”, and suppression of science When good science is suppressed by the before the government committed to buying a million of How might science be safeguarded in these exceptional medical-political complex, people die these tests but were blocked by the health department and times? The first step is full disclosure of competing inter- the prime minister’s office. Why was it important to pro- ests from government, politicians, scientific advisers, and oliticians and governments are suppressing cure this product without due scrutiny? Prior publication appointees, such as the heads of test and trace, diagnostic science. They do so in the public interest, they of research on a preprint server or a government website test procurement, and vaccine delivery. The next step is say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics is compatible with The BMJ’s publication policy. As if full transparency about decision making systems, process- and treatments. They do so to support inno- to prove a point, Public Health England then unsuccess- es, and knowing who is accountable for what. vation, to bring products to market at unprec- fully attempted to block The BMJ’s press release about the Once transparency and accountability are established Pedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible; research paper. as norms, individuals employed by government should the greatest deceptions are founded in a grain of truth. But ideally only work in areas unrelated to their competing the underlying behaviour is troubling. ɶɶ interests. Expertise is possible without competing inter- Science is being suppressed for political and financial ests. If such a strict rule becomes impractical, minimum gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand How might science be safeguarded good practice is that people with competing interests must scale, and it is harmful to public health. Politicians and not be involved in decisions on products and policies in industry are responsible for this opportunistic embezzle- in these exceptional times? The first which they have a financial interest. ment. So too are scientists and health experts. The pan- Governments and industry must also stop announcing demic has revealed how the medical-political complex step is full disclosure of competing critical science policy by press release. Such ill judged can be manipulated in an emergency – a time when it is moves leave science, the media, and stock markets vul- even more important to safeguard science. interests from government, nerable to manipulation. Clear, open, and advance publi- The UK’s pandemic response provides at least four cation of the scientific basis for policy, procurements, and examples of suppression of science or scientists. First, the politicians, scientific advisers, wonder drugs is a fundamental requirement. membership, research, and deliberations of the Scientific The stakes are high for politicians, scientific advis- Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) were initially and appointees, such as the heads ers, and government appointees. Their careers and bank secret until a press leak forced transparency. The leak balances may hinge on the decisions that they make. But revealed inappropriate involvement of government advis- of test and trace, diagnostic test they have a higher responsibility and duty to the public. ers in SAGE, while exposing under-representation from Science is a public good. It doesn’t need to be followed public health, clinical care, women, and ethnic minori- procurement, and vaccine delivery. blindly, but it does need to be fairly considered. Impor- ties. Indeed, the government was also recently ordered tantly, suppressing science, whether by delaying publi- to release a 2016 report on deficiencies in pandemic pre- cation, cherry picking favourable research, or gagging paredness, Operation Cygnus, following a verdict from Politicians often claim to follow the science, but that scientists, is a danger to public health, causing deaths by the Information Commissioner’s Office. is a misleading oversimplification. Science is rarely abso- exposing people to unsafe or ineffective interventions and Next, a Public Health England report on covid-19 lute. It rarely applies to every setting or every population. preventing them from benefiting from better ones. When and inequalities. The report’s publication was delayed It doesn’t make sense to slavishly follow science or evi- entangled with commercial decisions it is also maladmin- by England’s Department of Health; a section on ethnic dence. A better approach is for politicians, the publicly istration of taxpayers’ money. minorities was initially withheld and then, following a appointed decision makers, to be informed and guided by Politicisation of science was enthusiastically public outcry, was published as part of a follow-up report. science when they decide policy for their public. But even deployed by some of history’s worst autocrats and dic- Authors from Public Health England were instructed not that approach retains public and professional trust only if tators, and it is now regrettably commonplace in democ- to talk to the media. Third, on 15 October, the editor of science is available for scrutiny and free of political inter- racies. The medical-political complex tends towards the Lancet complained that an author of a research paper, ference, and if the system is transparent and not compro- suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in a UK government scientist, was blocked by the govern- mised by conflicts of interest. power. And, as the powerful become more successful, ment from speaking to media because of a “difficult Suppression of science and scientists is not new or richer, and further intoxicated with power, the inconve- political landscape.” a peculiarly British phenomenon. In the US, President nient truths of science are suppressed. When good sci- Now, a new example concerns the controversy over Trump’s government manipulated the Food and Drug ence is suppressed, people die.j point-of-care antibody testing for covid-19. The prime Administration to hastily approve unproved drugs such minister’s Operation Moonshot depends on immediate as hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir. Globally, people, Published in The BMJ, 13 November 2020. Reprinted by per- and wide availability of accurate rapid diagnostic tests. policies, and procurement are being corrupted by political mission. References available in the online version of this

It also depends on the questionable logic of mass screen- and commercial agendas. article at commonground.ca 2021 / May April ing—currently being trialled in Liverpool with a subopti- The UK’s pandemic response relies too heavily on Dr. Kamran Abbasi is the execu- mal PCR test. scientists and other government appointees with worry- tive editor of the British Medical The incident relates to research published this week ing competing interests, including shareholdings in com- Journal, editor of the Bulletin of by The BMJ, which finds that the government procured panies that manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests, treat- the World Health Organization, and an antibody test that in real world tests falls well short of ments, and vaccines. Government appointees are able to a consultant editor for PLOS Medi- performance claims made by its manufacturers.Research- ignore or cherry pick science—another form of misuse— cine. He is editor of the Journal of ers from Public Health England and collaborating insti- and indulge in anti-competitive practices that favour their the Royal Society of Medicine and tutions sensibly pushed to publish their study findings own products and those of friends and associates. JRSM Open. 5 by Karina Reiss and Sucharit Bhakdi The hyper response to Covid-19

The following excerpt is from Dr. Karina Reiss and Many other countries have problems along Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi’s new book Corona, False Alarm?: the same lines. When the influenza epidemic Facts and Figures (Chelsea Green Publishing, October swept over the world in the winter of 2017/2018, 2020) and is reprinted with permission from the pub- hospitals in the US were overwhelmed, triage lisher. Available wherever books are sold. tents were erected, operations were cancelled and patients were sent home. Alabama declared a state of emergency (97–99). The situation was The situation in Italy, little different in Spain, where hospitals just col- lapsed (100, 101), and in Italy, where intensive Spain, England and care units in large cities ground to a halt (102). The Italian health care system has been downsizing for years, the number of intensive the USA care beds is much lower than in other European countries. Furthermore, Italy has the highest ince the end of March, one sensation out- number of deaths from hospital- acquired infec- did the next: Italy had the most deaths, the tions and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in all of fatality rate shocked us to the core; Spain Europe (103). surpassed Italy (in the number of infections); Also, Italian society is one of the oldest the United Kingdom broke the sad European worldwide. Italy has the highest proportion of Srecord, exceeded only by the US. The press delighted in over 65 year-olds (22.8 percent) in the Euro- spreading as much terrifying news as humanly possible. pean Union (104). Add to that the fact that there But let us reflect a little. The impact of an epidemic is is a large number of people with chronic lung dependent not only on the intrinsic properties and deadli- and heart disease, and we have a much greater ness of the pathogen but also to a very significant extent number in the “high risk groups” as compared on how “fertile” the soil is on which it lands. All reliable to other countries. In sum, many independent figures tell us we are not dealing with a killer virus that factors come together to create a special case will sweep away mankind. So what did happen in those for Italy (105, 106). countries from which these dreadful pictures emerged? Since northern Italy was particularly affected, Detailed answers to this question must be sought on it would be interesting to ask if environmental the ground. Nevertheless, several facts are sufficiently factors had an influence on the way things devel- known to warrant mention here. Problems surround- oped there. Northern Italy has been dubbed the ing coronavirus statistics went totally rampant in Italy China of Europe with regard to its fine particu- and Spain. Elsewhere, testing for the virus was gener- late pollution (107). According to a WHO esti- ally performed on people with flu-like symptoms and a The inaccurate method of reporting “coronavirus mate, this caused over 8,000 additional deaths (without a certain risk of exposure to the virus. At the height of the deaths” naturally spread fear and panic, rendering the virus) in Italy’s 13 biggest cities in 2006 (108). Air pol- epidemic in Italy, testing was restricted to severely ill general public willing to accept the irrational and exces- lution increases the risk of viral pulmonary disease in the patients upon their admission to the hospital. Illogically, sive preventive measures installed by governments. very young and the elderly (109). Obviously, this factor testing was widely performed post-mortem on deceased These turned out to have a paradoxical effect. The num- could generally play a role in accentuating the severity of patients. This resulted in falsely elevated case fatality ber of regular deaths increased substantially over the pulmonary infections (110). rates combined with massive underestimates of actual number of “coronavirus deaths”. The Times reported Suspicions have been voiced that vaccination against infections (90). on April 15: England and Wales have experienced a various pathogens such as flu, meningococci and pneu- As early as mid-March, the Italian GIMBE (Gruppo record number of deaths in a single week, with 6,000 mococci can worsen the course of COVID-19. Investi- Italiano per la Medicina Basata Sulle Evidenze / Ital- more than average for this time of year. Only half of gations into this possibility are called for because Italy ian Evidence-Based Medicine Group) foundation stated those extra numbers could perhaps be attributed to the indeed stands out with its officially imposed extensive that the “degree of severity and lethality rate are largely coronavirus (92). There was a well-founded concern vaccination programme for the entire population. overestimated, while the lethality rates in Lombardy that the lockdown may have unintentional but serious Yet despite all these facts, the only pictures that April / May 2021

and the Emilia-Romagna region were largely due to consequences for the public’s health (93). remain imprinted on our minds are the shocking scenes overwhelmed hospitals” (91). It became increasingly clear that people avoided hos- of long convoys of military vehicles carting away end- The fact that no distinction was made between “death pitals even when faced with life-threatening events such less numbers of coffins from the northern Italian town by” and “death with” coronavirus rendered the situation as heart attacks because they were afraid of catching of Bergamo. hopeless. Almost 96 percent of “COVID-19 deaths” in the deadly virus. Patients with diabetes or hyper tension Vice chairman of the Federal Association of German Italian hospitals were patients with pre-existing illness- were no longer properly treated, tumour patients not Undertakers, Ralf Michal, noted (111): in Italy, crema- es. Three quarters suffered from hypertension, more adequately tended to. tions are rather rare. That is why undertakers were over- than a third from diabetes. Every third person had a The UK has always had massive problems with its burdened when the government ordered cremations in heart condition. As almost everywhere else, the average health care system, medical infrastructure and a short- the course of the coronavirus pandemic. The undertak- age was above 80 years. The few people under 50 who age of medical personnel (94, 95). Due to Brexit, the ers were not prepared for that. There were not enough 6 died also had severe underlying conditions (41). UK also lacks urgently needed foreign specialists (96). crematoriums and the complete infrastructure was lack- ing. That is why the military had to help out. And this freedom was abolished and opinions of the public were media and politicians can agree to support each other explains the pictures from Bergamo. Not only was there forced into the political line. on things that are not good–and even evil. One can no infrastructure, there was also a shortage of undertak- It has been almost 90 years since the last media-driv- only hope that the admonishing voices of reason will in ers because so many were in quarantine. en mass hysteria. future not be silenced by the dark forces on this earth. And finally, let us examine the United States, where If we have learned just one thing from the darkest only parts of the country were severely affected. In times of our German history, then surely this: We must A farewell states like Wyoming, Montana or West Virginia, the never again be indifferent and look the other way. Espe- Respiratory viruses are a major cause of mortal- number of “coronavirus deaths” was a two-digit figure cially not when the government suspends our funda- ity worldwide, with an estimated 2 to 3 million annual (Worldometers, middle of May, 2020). mental democratic rights. This time, it was only a virus deaths. Many viruses including influenza-A viruses, rhi- The situation in New York was different. Here, doc- that knocked on our door, but look what we had to go noviruses, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), parainflu- tors were overwhelmed and did not know which patients through as a consequence: enza viruses, adenoviruses and coronaviruses are respon- to treat first, while in other states, hospitals were eerily • Media-fuelled mass hysteria sible. Now, a new member has joined the list. As with the empty. New York was the centre of the epidemic, where • Arbitrary political decisions others, the SARS-CoV-2 virus particularly endangers the more than half of the COVID-19 deaths nationwide • Massive restrictions of fundamental rights elderly with serious pre-existing conditions. Depending occurred (date: May 2020). Most of the deceased lived in • Censorship of freedom of expression on the country and region, 0.02 to 0.4 percent of these the Bronx. An emergency doctor reported (112): “These • Enforced conformity of the media infections are fatal, which is comparable to a seasonal flu. people come way too late, but their reasoning is under- • Defamation of dissidents (the differently minded) SARS-CoV-2 therefore must not be assigned any special standable. They are afraid of being discovered. Most of • Denunciation significance as a respiratory pathogen. them are illegal immigrants without residence permits, • Dangerous human experiments The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak was never an epidemic without jobs and without any health insurance. The high- of national concern. Implementing the exceptional est mortality rate is recorded in this group of people”. regulations of the Infection Protection Act were and It would be of interest to learn how they were treat- still are unfounded. In mid-April 2020, it was entirely ed. Were they given high doses of chloroquine as rec- ɶɶ evident that the epidemic was coming to an end and ommended by the WHO? About a third of the Hispanic that the inappropriate preventive measures were caus- population carries a gene defect (glucose-6-phosphate You can fool all the people some of ing irreparable collateral damage in all walks of life. dehydrogenase) that causes chloroquine intolerance Yet, the government continues its destructive crusade with effects that can be lethal (113, 114). More than half the time, and some of the people against the spook virus, thereby utterly disregarding the of the population in the Bronx is Hispanic. fundaments of true democracy. Countries and regions can differ so widely with all the time, but you cannot fool And as you read these lines, human experiments are respect to a myriad of factors that a true understanding underway with gene-based vaccines whose ominous of any epidemic situation cannot be obtained without all the people all the time. dangers have never been revealed to the thousands of critical analysis of these determinants. unknowing volunteers. – Abraham Lincoln We are bearing witness to the downfall and destruction of our heritage, to the end of the age of enlightenment. Quo Vadis If that does not remind you of a dictatorship then you May this little book awaken homo sapiens of this must have been sound asleep during your history les- earth to rise and live up to their name. And put an end to he relevant authorities, our politicians and their sons. The things that remain with us are deep concern this senseless self-destruction.j advisers played truly inglorious roles in the han- and fear. Because so many intelligent and educated peo- Tdling of new and supposedly dangerous infec- ple became like lemmings within a short 3 months, will- Karina Reiss, PhD studied biol- tions of the last decades, from BSE, swine flu, EHEC ing to obey the demands and commands of the world ogy at the University of Kiel. She to COVID-19. At no point did they learn from their elite. received her PhD there in 2001, mistakes, and this diminishes the hope that it will be The renowned virologist Pablo Goldschmidt said and became an associate profes- any different in the future. On the contrary! While we (246): “We are all locked up. In Nice there are drones sor in 2008. She has published “only” redistributed taxpayers’ money to the pharma- that impose fines on people. How far has this monitor- over sixty articles in the fields of ceutical industry during the swine flu, this time liveli- ing gotten? You have to read Hannah Arendt and look cell biology, biochemistry, inflam- hoods were destroyed, the constitution was trampled very closely at the origins of totalitarianism at that mation, and infection, which have on and the population basically deprived of their fun- time. If you scare the population, you can do anything gained international recognition damental rights: freedom of speech and opinion, free- with it.” and received honors and awards. dom of movement, freedom of relocation, freedom of Apparently, he is right. One thing is clear: there assembly, freedom of actively practicing your religion, are many things that should be worked through and Sucharit Bhakdi, MD served as freedom to practice your occupation and make a living. we should all insist upon this happening. The corona- chair of Medical Microbiology at Anchored in the constitution is the principle of pro- viruses have retreated for this season, the issue is disap- the University of Mainz in Germa- portionality: the State’s interference with basic rights pearing from the headlines and from the public sphere ny from 1990 to 2012. He has pub-

must be appropriate to reach the aspired goal. And last – and soon it will be gone from peoples’ memories. lished over three hundred articles 2021 / May April but not least: the dignity of mankind must never be If we, the people, do not demand that all transgres- in the fields of immunobiology, violated. sions of the coronavirus politics are addressed, then bacteriology, virology, and parasi- This ceased to be the case, to the detriment of democ- those in power will be able to cover it all with a cloak tology, for which he has received racy and civilisation. of concealment. numerous awards and the Order It has been almost 90 years since the time when criti- There is always the chance of some other threat of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate. cal and free journalism was abolished and the media knocking on our door. The only positive thing that has transformed into the extended arm of the state. come from this is that very many people in our country References available in the online version of this article at It has been almost 90 years since the time when have woken up. Many have realised that the mainstream commonground.ca 7 by Peter Doshi The elusive defi nition of Program in History, Anthropology, Science, pandemic infl uenza Technology and Society, MIT n 2009, governments through- In addition, concern over ties between denied having changed any defi nitions edge its part in allowing misunderstand- out the world mounted large and WHO advisers and industry fuelled and defended the scientifi c validity of its ing” of the web page alteration, which costly responses to the H1N1 suspicion about the independence and decisions, citing “numerous safeguards” WHO has characterized as a change in infl uenza outbreak. These efforts appropriateness of the decisions made for handling potential confl icts of interest. the “description” but not in the “defi ni- were largely justifi ed on the at the national and international levels. At stake in this debate are the public tion” of pandemic infl uenza. “It’s not a Ipremise that H1N1 infl uenza and sea- Central to this debate has been the trust in health offi cials and our collective defi nition, but we recognize that it could sonal infl uenza required different man- question of whether H1N1 infl uenza capacity to respond effectively to future be taken as such … It was the fault of agement, a premise reinforced by the should have been labelled a “pandemic” disease threats. Understanding this con- ours, confusing descriptions and defi ni- decision on the part of the World Health at all. The Council of Europe voiced troversy entails acknowledging that both tions”, a WHO communications offi cer Organization (WHO) to label the H1N1 serious concerns that the declaration of parties are partially correct, and to resolve declared. Indeed, the Council of Europe infl uenza outbreak a “pandemic”. How- a pandemic became possible only after it we must re-evaluate how emerg- was not alone in claiming that the “defi - ever, the outbreak had far less serious WHO changed its defi nition of pandemic ing threats should be defi ned in a world nition” had been changed. consequences than experts had predict- infl uenza. It also expressed misgivings where the simple act of labelling a disease WHO argues that this phrase – which ed, a fact that led many to wonder if the over WHO’s decision to withhold publi- has enormous social, economic and polit- could be more neutrally referred to as a public health responses to H1N1 had cation of the names of its H1N1 advisory ical implications. description–defi nition – had little bear- not been disproportionately aggressive. Emergency Committee. WHO, however, ing on policy responses; a WHO press What sparked the controversy release states that it was “never part of the Since 2003, the top of the WHO formal defi nition of a pandemic” and was Pandemic Preparedness homepage has never sent to Member States, but simply contained the following statement: “An appeared in “a document on WHO’s web- infl uenza pandemic occurs when a new site for some months”. In actuality, the infl uenza virus appears against which description–defi nition was displayed at the human population has no immunity, the top of the WHO Pandemic Prepared- resulting in several simultaneous epi- ness home page for over six years and is demics worldwide with enormous num- consistent with the descriptions of pan- bers of deaths and illness.” However, on demic infl uenza put forth in various WHO 4 May 2009, scarcely one month before policy documents over the years. Howev- the H1N1 pandemic was declared, the er, while the original description–defi - web page was altered in response to a nition unambiguously describes disease query from a CNN reporter. The phrase severity and certainly refl ects general “enormous numbers of deaths and ill- assumptions about pandemic infl uenza ness” had been removed and the revised before novel H1N1 emerged, it is unrelat- web page simply read as follows: “An ed to the criteria WHO applied to declare infl uenza pandemic may occur when H1N1 infl uenza a pandemic. a new infl uenza virus appears against which the human population has no Defi nitions of pandemic phases, not immunity.” Months later, the Council pandemic infl uenza of Europe would cite this alteration as In a press conference, WHO evidence that WHO changed its defi ni- explained that “the formal defi nitions tion of pandemic infl uenza to enable it of pandemics by WHO can be seen in to declare a pandemic without having to the guidelines”. This was a reference to

2021 demonstrate the intensity of the disease WHO’s pandemic infl uenza prepared- caused by the H1N1 virus. ness guidelines, fi rst developed in 1999 and revised in 2005 and 2009. However, A description versus a defi nition none of these documents contains what April / May April / May 2021

Harvey Fineberg, chairman of a might reasonably be considered a for- WHO-appointed International Health mal defi nition of pandemic infl uenza, Regulations (IHR) Review Committee a fact that may explain why WHO has that evaluated WHO’s response to H1N1 refrained from offering a quotable defi - infl uenza, identifi ed the defi nition of nition despite its repeated assurances pandemic infl uenza as a “critical element that “the defi nition” was never changed. of our review”. In a draft report released The startling and inevitable conclusion in March, the committee faulted WHO is that despite ten years of issuing guide- for “inadequately dispelling confusion lines for pandemic preparedness, WHO about the defi nition of a pandemic” and has never formulated a formal defi nition 8 noted WHO’s “reluctance to acknowl- of pandemic infl uenza.j Covid-19 vaccine concerns We are not being told the truth by Ted Kuntz

anadians are not being told the truth about the or the effect of co-infections may potentially limit the the Pfizer vaccine. The committee members acknowl- COVID vaccine products which have only generalizability of the efficacy conclusions over time. edged the following: been given emergency use authorization. Vaccine effectiveness against asymptomatic infection • The importance of long-term safety data for the Those lining up to participate in this human Data are limited to assess the effect of the vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine as it is made experiment are not given sufficient informa- against asymptomatic infection. using a technology not used in previously licensed Ction to make an informed decision. Vaccine effectiveness against long-term effects of vaccines. COVID-19 disease • The lack of data on how the vaccine impacts asymp- Here are the facts At present it is not possible to assess whether the tomatic infection and viral shedding. On November 20, 2020, Pfizer submitted an Emer- vaccine will have an impact on specific long-term • FDA noted that the vaccine should not be adminis- gency Use Authorization (EUA) request to the US sequelae of COVID-19 disease in individuals who are tered to individuals with known history of a severe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an inves- infected despite vaccination. allergic reaction to any component of the vaccine. tigational product intended to prevent COVID-19. 1 Vaccine effectiveness against mortality (See ingredients list) 2. This information was the basis upon which the FDA A larger number of individuals at high risk of • Appropriate medical treatment used to manage permited emergency use authorization of their product COVID-19 and higher attack rates would be needed to immediate allergic reactions must be immediately in the general population. confirm efficacy of the vaccine against mortality. available in the event an acute anaphylactic reaction The Pfizer vaccine includes ingredients never Vaccine effectiveness against transmission of (an extreme, often life-threatening allergic reaction) before used in licenced vaccines, and functions unlike SARS-CoV-2 • FDA explained that there are insufficient data to any previous vaccine to date. This treatment is more Data are limited to assess the effect of the vaccine inform vaccine-associated risks in pregnancy. accurately a medical device and includes synthetic against transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from individuals • Committee members raised concerns about the lim- genetic technology based on a computer generated who are infected despite vaccination. ited conclusions about the prevention of severe dis- “spike glycoprotein antigen encoded by RNA and for- ease based on the study endpoints. mulated in lipid nanoparticles”. Under Section 6. 3 • Potential benefits that could be further evaluated but The information below is taken directly from the Known Risks are not necessary to support an EUA include: pre- Pfizer Emergency Use Authority request and a meet- The vaccine has been shown to elicit increased vention of COVID-19 in individuals with previous ing of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products local and systemic adverse reactions as compared to SARS-CoV-2 infection, prevention of mortality and Advisory Committee. those in the placebo arm. long-term complications of COVID-19, reduction in Severe adverse reactions occurred in 0.0 - 4.6% of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and reduction Under Section 6.2 participants. of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Unknown Benefits/Data Gaps • Known risks include: common local and systemic Duration of protection Under Section 6.4 adverse reactions, (notably injection site reactions, It is not possible to assess sustained efficacy over a Unknown Risks/Data Gaps headache, fever, chills, myalgia, and fatigue, all of period longer than 2 months. Safety in certain subpopulations which are usually mild to moderate and lasting a Effectiveness in certain populations at high-risk of There are currently insufficient data to make con- few days, with higher frequency in younger vaccine severe COVID-19 clusions about the safety of the vaccine in subpopula- recipients. The subset of certain groups such as immunocom- tions such as children less than 16 years of age, preg- • Potential risks that should be further evaluated promised individuals is too small to evaluate efficacy nant and lactating individuals, and immunocompro- include: uncommon to rare clinically significant outcomes. mised individuals. adverse reactions that may become apparent with Effectiveness in individuals previously infected Adverse reactions that are very uncommon or that more widespread use of the vaccine. with SARS-CoV-2 require longer follow-up to be detected Based on the totality of scientific evidence avail- Available data are insufficient to make conclusions Use in large numbers of individuals may reveal able, the Advisory Committee concluded that it is rea- about benefit in individuals with prior SARS-CoV-2 additional, potentially less frequent and/or more seri- sonable to believe that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID- infection. ous adverse events not detected in the trial safety 19 vaccine may be effective in preventing such serious Effectiveness in pediatric populations population. or life-threatening disease or condition that can be The representation of pediatric participants in the Vaccine-enhanced disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. study population is too limited to adequately evaluate Risk of vaccine-enhanced disease…remains efficacy in pediatric age groups younger than 16 years. unknown and needs to be evaluated further. Limited, Inadequate, Insufficient Future vaccine effectiveness as influenced by char- Notice how often the following terms were used: acteristics of the pandemic, changes in the virus, Under Section 7.0 limited, inadequate, too small, insufficient, lack of and/or potential effects of co-infections VRBPAC Meeting Summary data, insufficient data, limited conclusions, may The evolution of the pandemic characteristics…as The Vaccines and Related Biological Products reveal, remains unknown, and other disclaimers and well as potential changes in the virus infectivity, anti- Advisory Committee convened on December 10, 2020 qualifiers. Also notice the use of vague terms such genically significant mutations to the S protein, and/ to discuss potential implications of authorization of as “reasonable to believe” and continued next page…

EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT “may be effective” to describe vaccine safety and effi cacy. Now compare this information with that available on the Health BC website; information that reads more like marketing propaganda than science: “Vaccines are very safe. It is much safer to get the vac- cine than to get COVID-19. Serious side effects due to the vaccines were not seen in the clinical trials.” 3 The BC Center for Disease Control website similarly reads like a paid PR announcement: “The vaccine will help reduce the spread of COVID-19 in B.C. Vaccines save lives by preventing disease, espe- cially for people most likely to have severe illness or die. If enough people get vaccinated, it makes it diffi cult for the disease to spread.” 4 These statements are not supported by the data, nor the informa- tion provided by Pfi zer and the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. This distortion of the facts raises con- cerns that our regulatory agencies are acting dishonestly.

Fully Informed Consent Every health professional administering a vaccine has a legal and ethical responsibility to ensure fully informed consent prior to treat- ment. The consent must be voluntary and free of any disadvantage or coercion. For consent to be informed, patients must be provided with The right to dissent the following: evidence of the benefi ts of the vaccine; the risks of the vaccine, both known and suspected; the benefi ts and risks of natural by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. immunity; and alternative treatments to vaccination. Specifi cally, with regards to the COVID vaccines currently avail- overnment technocrats, billionaire oli- And who can blame them? Increasing the able to Canadians, it is imperative that those considering taking these garchs, Big Pharma, Big Data, Big wealth and power of the oligarchy is seldom medical devices be made fully aware of: GMedia, the high-fi nance robber barons a potent vessel for populism. Citizens accus- • the experimental status of these products and the military industrial intelligence appara- tomed to voting for their governments are • Phase III safety trials have not been completed tus love pandemics for the same reasons they unlikely to support policies that make the rich • Interim approval was granted based upon only two months of safe- love wars and terrorist attacks. Catastrophic richer, increase political and social control by ty data crises create opportunities of convenience to corporations, diminish democracy and reduce • The Pfi zer and Moderna products are utilizing synthetic genetic increase both power and wealth. their civil rights. technology never before approved for use as a vaccine In her seminal book, “The Shock Doctrine: So demagogues must weaponize fear to • The Pfi zer and Moderna products include ingredients never before The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” Naomi justify their demands for blind obedience and used in a vaccine, making these products highly experimental Klein chronicles how authoritarian dema- to win public acquiescence for the demolition • The risk of vaccine enhanced disease gogues, large corporations and wealthy plu- of civil and economic rights. • Effective prophylactic and treatment options tocrats use mass disruptions to shift wealth Of course, the fi rst casualty must always • COVID vaccine manufacturers have been granted legal immunity upwards, obliterate the middle classes, abol- be freedom of speech. After stoking suffi cient for any injury or death caused by their products ish civil rights, privatize the commons and panic against the hobgoblin du jour, robber Rather than a health care system based on honesty and trans- expand authoritarian controls. barons need to silence protest against their parency, we have a system that has devolved into selling pharma- The methodology is, in fact, formulaic, wealth and power-grabs. In including free ceutical products through marketing propaganda and coercion. It as Hitler’s Luftwaffe commander, Hermann speech in the First Amendment of the U.S. is imperative that health professionals take their code of ethics Göring, explained during the Nazi war Constitution, James Madison argued that all seriously. It is also paramount that Canadians take responsibility crimes trials at Nuremberg: “It is always our other liberties depend on this right. Any to educate themselves fully. The decision of whether or not to vac- a simple matter to drag the people along government that can hide its mischief has cinate is too important to rely on blind faith. whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictator- license to commit atrocities. ship, or a parliament or a communist dicta- The free fl ow of information and self- Ted Kuntz, M.Ed. is a parent, grandparent, medical choice activist, edu- torship. “Voice or no voice, the people can expression are oxygen and sunlight for rep- cator, author, retired psychotherapist and president of Vaccine Choice always be brought to the bidding of the lead- resentative democracy, which functions best Canada. ers. That is easy. All you have to do is tell with policies annealed in the boiling cauldron www.vaccinechoicecanada.com them they are being attacked, and denounce of public debate. It is axiomatic that without Endnotes the pacifi sts for lack of patriotism and expos- free speech, democracy withers. 1) https://www.fda.gov/media/144416/download ing the country to greater danger. It works To consolidate and fortify their power, 2 ) https://covid-vaccine.canada.ca/info/pdf/pfi zer-biontech-covid- the same in any country.” dictatorships aim to replace those vital ingre- 19-vaccine-pm1-en.pdf Now the medical cartel and its billionaire dients of self-rule — debate, self-expression, 3) https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthlinkbc-fi les/covid-19-vaccines Big Tech accomplices have invoked the most dissent and skepticism — with rigid authori- 4) http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/ potent, frightening and enduring enemy of all tarian orthodoxies that function as secular covid-19-vaccine/vaccines-for-covid-19 — the microbe. surrogates for religion. These orthodoxies

EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT perform to abolish critical thinking and regiment popu- entific questions and their opinions can vary in accor- policies that impact the vitality of our economy, pub- lations in blind, unquestioning obedience to undeserv- dance with the demands of politics, power and financial lic health, personal freedoms and constitutional rights. ing authorities. self-interest. Censorship is violence, and this systematic muzzling Instead of citing scientific studies to justify man- Predictably our other constitutional guaran- of debate — which proponents justify as a measure to dates for masks, lockdowns and vaccines, our medi- tees lined up behind free speech at the gibbet. The curtail dangerous polarization — is actually fueling the cal rulers cite WHO, CDC, FDA and NIH — captive imposition censorship has masked this systematic polarization and extremism that the autocrats use to agencies that are groveling sock puppets to the indus- demolition of our Constitution, including attacks clamp down evermore draconian controls. tries they regulate. So it’s unsurprising that, instead of on our freedoms of assembly (through social dis- We might recall, at this strange time in our histo- demanding blue-ribbon safety science and encouraging tancing and lockdown rules), on freedom of wor- ry, my father’s friend, Edward R. Murrow’s warning: honest, open and responsible debate on the science, the ship (including abolishing religious exemptions and “The right to dissent … is surely fundamental to the badly compromised and newly empowered government closing churches, while liquor stores remain open existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that health officials charged with managing the COVID- as “essential service”), private property (the right went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail 19 pandemic response collaborated with mainstream to operate a business), due process (including the to totalitarianism.” and social media to shut down discussion on key public imposition of far-reaching restrictions against free- health and civil rights questions. dom of movement, education and association with- Robert Kennedy Jr. is an American environmental attorney, The high priests of the modern Inquisition are Big out rule making, public hearings, or economic and author, and advocate for children’s health. He is the President Pharma’s network and cable news gasbags who preach environmental impact statements), the 7th Amend- of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group rigid obedience to official diktats including lockdowns, ment right to jury trials (in cases of vaccine inju- that he helped found in 1999. Kennedy is also the Chairman social distancing and the moral rectitude of donning ries caused by corporate negligence), our rights to of Children’s Health Defence. Kennedy is a son of Robert F. masks despite the absence of peer-reviewed science privacy and against illegal searches and seizures Kennedy and nephew of former president John F. Kennedy. To that convincingly shows that masks prevent COVID-19 (warrantless tracking and tracing), and our right to learn more visit https://childrenshealthdefense.org/ transmission. The need for this sort of proof is gratuitous. have governments that don’t spy on us or retain our The text of this article is from the foreword to the new They counsel us to, instead, “trust the experts.” information for mischievous purposes. book “The Truth About COVID-19 — Exposing the Great Such advice is both anti-democratic and anti-science. It’s a bad omen for democracy when citizens can no Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Nor- Science is dynamic. “Experts” frequently differ on sci- longer conduct civil, informed debates about critical mal.” by Dr. Joseph Mercola.

Our freedom depends on us by Ted Kuntz

I freed a thousand slaves. not been scientifically proven to prevent infection or will of a technocracy and pharmaceutical cartel which I could have freed a thousand more transmission, nor has its safety been confirmed. is accountable to no one. if only they knew they were slaves. This enslavement is difficult to discern because When governments, corporations, and the media – Harriet Tubman, American Abolitionist (1822-1913) the prison has no walls. The method of capture uses treat people like chattel and punish those who do not no visible chains. The mandates, coercion and fear- submit, we have slavery. If an institution is given the s I witness the growing tyranny sweeping the mongering are flogged by politicians, public health authority to do whatever it wants against our will, planet, I am struck by the inability of the mass- officials and the mainstream media, as if we have no then we live in a slave system. Aes to recognize the real threat facing human- other option but to obey. The impact of the loss of our We live in very challenging times. The forces ity today. It is not a viral infection that threatens our fundamental rights and freedoms is never acknowl- against us are well-organized, well-financed, and the future. Rather, the greatest threat we face is the loss edged or discussed. control they exercise over our politicians, regulatory of the rights and freedoms that form the very founda- Enslavement has always been the manipulation agencies, and mainstream media is significant. The tion of our society. and domination of human beings for profit. This cur- capture and enslavement of humanity is almost com- rent situation is no different. Imagine the profits if plete. And yet, we can’t allow ourselves to entertain A Prison That Has No Walls every human being on the planet is required to be resignation or despair. We have to persist in our efforts Our challenge in waking up to this growing enslave- injected with this experimental vaccine. to remain free. Our future and freedom depend on us. ment is that it is being marketed under the guise of Forced COVID measures and medical experimen- “the greater good.” The pharmaceutical industry tation is spreading in hospitals, schools, daycares, Ted Kuntz, parent of a vaccine injured child. through patronage to government and the mainstream workplaces, and airports. Soon there will be fewer media has convinced an unsuspecting public that giv- and fewer places where those who do not comply First they came for the socializers and I did not ing up our rights, freedoms and bodily autonomy, and, can go freely. Those in support of personal choice speak out – because I was not social. participating in an uncontrolled genetic experiment, are being pushed to the margins. Soon there will be Then they came for those not wearing masks, and are in the best interests of humanity. nowhere left to go. I did not speak out – because I was not concerned The idea being relentlessly promoted is that we Make no mistake about COVID mandates. We are about masks. should accept face coverings, physical distancing, lock- not talking about quarantining individuals infected Then they came for the people going outdoors, and I downs, and “stay at home” orders without question or by a disease. We are talking about the segregation of did not speak out – because I was not out-going. scientific evidence. Further, that the only possible solu- healthy children and adults from participating in soci- Then they came for me demanding I take their vac- tion to end these severe and unprecedented measures ety. Our transgression is that we do not consent to cine – and there was no one left to speak for me. is an experimental ‘vaccine’; a medical device that has handing over our bodies and our lives to the tyrannical – Inspired by Pastor Martin Niemoller

EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT Support our constitutional challenges hat has become abundantly clear is tional rights and freedoms. This action will be that there is no medical justifi cation fi led shortly. Wfor continuing a state of emergency. The government has provided no evidence to To support these initiatives, please donate to: support masking, physical distancing, lock- www.vaccinechoicecanada.com/donate downs, and the forced closure of businesses www.action4canada.com/donate and churches. These measures are not science- based. They are political and ideological. The imposed measures are disproportionate to the To learn more risk. The collateral damage to our economy, communities and families is greater than the Vaccine Choice Canada virus itself. www.vaccinechoicecanada.com We call for an immediate restoration of our Constitutional Rights Centre civil liberties, livelihoods, and a return to normal www.constitutionalrightscentre.ca democratic governance. Action4Canada - www.action4canada.com Vaccine Choice Canada has initiated actions Stand For Health Freedom to address the following: www.standforhealthfreedom.com/shf-canada • Forced masking, testing and social distancing Librti - www.librti.com of children in Ontario schools Ontario Civil Liberties Association - www.ocla.ca • Protection of Doctors, Nurses, Police and other Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom professionals standing up for truth www.jccf.ca • Vaccine Compliance Passports Police On Guard For Thee • Vaccine Injury Accountability and Compensa- www.policeonguard.ca tion Program Canada Health Alliance • Protecting Employee Rights to Decline www.canadahealthalliance.org COVID Vaccination Canadian Frontline Nurses In British Columbia, Action4Canada has www.canadianfrontlinenurses.ca retained Rocco Galati to defend our Constitu- Vaccine immunity passports ny requirement that Canadians produce not designed to prevent COVID infection, nor a ‘Vaccine Immunity Passport’ or simi- have they been scientifi cally proven to prevent Tell your Federal MP to protect our autonomy Alar documentation to pursue life, liberty transmission of a SARS-CoV-2 virus. www.standforhealthfreedom.com/action/ and happiness is unconstitutional and deeply These shots cannot and do not contribute protect-your-autonomy disturbing. to the protection of the community. This fail- Just as the various governments in Canada ure to contribute to community benefi t renders have failed to provide verifi able medical and invalid any argument that the COVID shot scientifi c evidence to warrant the unprecedent- ought to be mandated for ‘the greater good’. ed lockdowns and other measures instated in The intention of such a passport is to restrict VACCINE response to COVID-19, any requirement to access to travel and services of those individu- produce documentation of COVID vaccine als not partaking in this human experiment. CHOICE compliance is unjustifi ed and without medical Such arbitrary restrictions have no place in a EST 1982 or scientifi c merit. free and democratic society. Vaccine passports CANADA The justifi cation to impose a system of con- clearly function as a mechanism of coercion Our Right Our Choice Our Future trol is that those who have received the prod- rather than as a measure of health. uct are assumed to be rendered immune from Vaccine Choice Canada will leverage all of infection and therefore will not contribute to the its resources to prevent this violation of indi- spread of disease. The scientifi c evidence does vidual rights, medical choice and bodily sov- not support such belief. COVID shot manufac- ereignty. We will not allow the creation of a VACCINE turers openly acknowledge their products are medical apartheid. EST 1982 Our Right Our Choice Our Future CHOICE CANADA For more information: www.vaccinechoicecanada.com/in-the-news/position-paper-vaccine-immunity-passports

EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT Science Matters David Suzuki ENVIRONMENT Nature in your neighbourhood

he late urban visionary Jane Jacobs wrote, The burgeoning interest included growing food – veggies “severe insect declines can potentially have global eco- “Perhaps it will be the city that reawak- and herbs, fruits and berries – and native plants to support logical and economic consequences.” Insects pollinate ens our understanding and appreciation local insects, like bees and butterfl ies. plants, provide food for other life and help naturally of nature, in all its teeming, unpredictable The David Suzuki Foundation’s Butterfl yway Proj- recycle waste. complexity.” ect ballooned, from nine cities with volunteer “Rang- The scientists also stated that it “is vital that people TWhile the built form of towns and cities is often dis- ers” in 2019 to more than 100 communities in 2020. learn how they can take action.” One report offered eight connected from natural systems, urban ecosystems have Despite the uncertain times, these keen volunteers simple things people can do, including converting lawns much to offer for the more than 80 per cent of people in to habitat, growing native plants, reducing use of harmful Canada who live in them. Since the pandemic began, tens Although we can’t predict what chemicals, limiting exterior lighting, increasing aware- of millions of us have been spending more time explor- ness and appreciation of insects and advocating for action. ing our yards, parks and neighbourhoods, underscoring the As author and plant ecologist Robin Wall Kim- immense value of green spaces for health and well-being. “normal” will look like once we emerge merer says in her essential book Braiding Sweetgrass, COVID-19 will long be remembered for upend- “Restoring land without restoring relationship is an ing lives worldwide, but one surprising legacy may be from the pandemic, a daily dose of empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and something more revelatory and, hopefully, lasting: a relationship that will sustain the restored land. There- much-needed reconnection to nearby nature. nature is perhaps one of the best fore, reconnecting people and the landscape is as essen- In the pandemic’s early days, getting out of the house tial as re-establishing proper hydrology or cleaning up often meant wandering through quieted streets and parks, remedies for these trying times. contaminants. It is medicine for the earth.” where wildlife began to emerge. Urban dwellers began to Although we can’t predict what “normal” will look notice the sights and sounds of nature in their neighbour- doubled down on planting native wildfl owers through- like once we emerge from the pandemic, a daily dose of hoods – from a family of foxes under a Toronto board- out their neighbourhoods. The project’s aim is to inspire nature is perhaps one of the best remedies for these trying walk to the calls of birds of prey in cities like Vancouver. people to create pollinator-friendly habitat to support times. That’s the pitch behind the BC Parks Foundation’s As the pace of life slowed, many people began to notice local insects – what renowned naturalist E.O. Wilson new PaRx nature prescription program, which supports the return of migrating birds and the emergence of quirky called “the little things that run the world” – at the heart health-care professionals who want to improve their local insects, like mourning cloak butterfl ies waking from of our food webs and urban ecologies. patients’ health by offering nature prescriptions. their winter slumber. These gold-tipped, orange and black Although urban conservation programs have long As the pandemic’s fi rst anniversary passes, let’s get early risers are often the fi rst butterfl ies to appear in Cana- been viewed as mostly symbolic education exercises, outside and connect with nature nearby. You could even dian cities because they spend colder months tucked into researchers are fi nding that the value of creating habitat connect with one of the over 1,000 newly recruited But- crevices fully grown, waiting for warmer weather. in our yards and communities can be immense. In Janu- terfl yway Rangers and help bring butterfl ies to your Spring inspired an unprecedented interest in tending ary, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences highlighted neighbourhood, one native wildfl ower at a time.j to yards and balconies. Millions of people began plotting that insects are facing “death by a thousand cuts” from what plants they would grow in gardens and on patios pesticides, light pollution, habitat destruction, climate David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co- and windowsills – many for the fi rst time. It was clear we disruption and more. founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contri- would be spending more time at home last summer, and A series of 12 studies pointed out that insects are butions from Senior Strategist Jode Roberts. Learn more at the resulting surge in seed and plant sales was historic. essential to ecosystems and human survival and that www.davidsuzuki.org

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he time-bound mode of consciousness is deeply embedded in the human psyche. But what we are doing here is part of a profound transformation that is taking place in the collective consciousness of the planet and beyond: the awakening of consciousness from the dream of matter, form and separation – the ending of time. TWe are breaking mind patterns that have dominated human life for eons – mind patterns that have created unimaginable suffering on a vast scale. I am not using the word evil. It is more helpful to call it unconsciousness or insanity. “This breaking up of the old mode of consciousness, or rather, unconscious- ness – is it something we have to do or will it happen anyway? I mean, is this change inevitable?” That’s a question of perspective. The doing and the happening are in fact a single process. Because you are one with the totality of consciousness, you can- not separate the two, but there is no absolute guarantee that humans will make it. The process isn’t inevitable or automatic. Your cooperation is an essential part of it. However you look at it, it is a quantum leap in the evolution of conscious- ness, as well as our only chance of survival as a species. To find out if you have allowed yourself to be taken over by psychological time, you can use a simple criterion. Ask yourself: “Is there joy, ease and lightness in what I am doing?” If there isn’t, then time is covering up the present moment and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle. If there is no joy, ease or lightness in what you are doing, it does not neces- sarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the “how.” How is always more important than “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result you want to achieve. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it. As soon as you honour the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dis- solve and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of present- moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care and love, even the simplest action. So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action; just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice. In the Bhagavad-Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful, spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called karma yoga. It is described as the path of “consecrated action.” When the compulsive striving ceases, the joy of Being flows into everything you do. The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction; you don’t look to it for salvation. Neither failure, nor success, has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation. As far as your life situation is concerned, there may be things to be attained or acquired. That’s the world of form, and of gain and loss. Yet on a deeper level, you are already complete, and when you realize that, there is a playful, joyous April / May 2021

energy behind what you do. When your deeper sense of self is derived from Being, neither your happiness, nor your sense of self, depends on the outcome and there is freedom from fear. You don’t seek permanency where it cannot be found. Everything is honoured, but nothing matters. Forms are born and they die, and yet you are aware of the eternal underneath the forms. You know that nothing real can be threatened. When this is your state of Being, how can you not succeed? You have succeeded already. j

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Editor’s note on this special edition by Joseph Roberts It’s personal Before treatment, get the diagnosis right y uncle, an MD, was the top Immu- natural immunity and you will never have the same solution, which is not a solution at all given that it will nization Officer for the Port of disease again. But there was a catch. It would not be not stop you from getting the disease nor, after having Vancouver. He worked his way up a quick fix and take twice as long to heal. Having a the vaccine, does guarantee you will not share it, but through the ranks as a general physi- scratchy throat and feeling ill didn’t really appeal to me give you the weakest assurances that you may – yes, cian who did house calls, then clini- but I had reasoned I would be willing to suffer twice as may – have lighter symptoms, except you are the one- Mcal director of the Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation long if it never came back. Hey, I would do two years in in-forty that has an Adverse Effect (AE) from the anti- Centre for the provincial government, up to working one, and then… freeze or genetically modified particles of never-before- at the Sinclair Centre downtown for Health Canada on I took the challenge at the age of twenty, suffered tested-on-humans mRNA injection. Oh, and they got a wide variety of research and prepared reports for the through it but took extra good care of myself and I was our Health Canada to sign the purchase agreement revolving door of Health Ministers, none of who were impressed. Tonsillitis never returned. I learned from (which the government refuses to allow the public to trained in the field of health nor were medical doctors. observation and experimenting one myself. That was see) that the manufactures cannot be held responsible He had some frustrations about this, but that’s another decades ago. I kept learning how to maintain good for any damage their vaccine or counter measures do story, not this one. health which included changing my diet, eating well, to you or your family. Sketchy deal for recipients, great He wanted me to be a doctor because he loved medi- keeping active and interested in life and others, stopped deal for pharma millionaires. cine. But I had an experience in 1969 that redirected smoking and taking any kinds of drugs, hardly drinking, So dive deep into whether “to be or not to be” a me. I was travelling outside of Canada when annual playing lots of piano and guitar, and became a life-long human guinea pig for big pharma profits. Remember bout of tonsillitis hit. Every year since I was 12 years learner. This magazine is a testament to that. politicians keep secrets, break promises, work for big

old, I had this nasty recurring swelling in my throat I decided to write this during this epidemic of panic business (rather than voters ...except come election 2021 / May April diagnosed as tonsillitis, and freely treated by my uncle and desperation. To stand up and say there is another time), lie to the public either boldface or by omission. with all the free samples of various antibiotics the phar- way. The epi-pan-demic is over-hyped by the pharma Canada had Thalidomide fully licensed and approved macutical sales people left at his office. Being far away elite who want us all to obey their mandates and con- for pregnant women. Now some unquestionably trust from home, he was not there to kill it off and “save” sume their over-priced, poorly tested, questionable vac- these rushed vaccine that do not even have a full offi- me. I looked to other sources and found a book on nat- cines and have us join their cult of covid-faithful cus- cial license, but rather just a temporary interim waver ural healing which had a completely different take on tomers. I coined the term Medical Disaster Marketing allowing it to be used on humans. treating tonsillitis. The book said that if you let a throat for their kind of ruthless behaviour. They have already Mark Twain said “History doesn’t repeat itself, it infection run its full course your body will build up a sucked in the politicians. Who are pimping their final rhymes.” Be careful of what is offered. j 17 31 reasons why I won’t take the vaccine by Chananya Weissman

It’s not a vaccine. A vaccine by definition treatment, despite all the fanfare and assurances. horrible reactions and death shortly after being injected. provides immunity to a disease. This does They are claiming that they would consider it unfair When the establishment is purging good people who # not provide immunity to anything. In a best- to “cut the line”. This is a preposterous excuse, and it risk everything simply to raise concerns about a new case scenario, it merely reduces the chance takes an unbelievable amount of chutzpah to even say medical treatment — even if they don’t outright oppose of getting a severe case of a virus if one such a thing. Such a “line” is a figment of their own it — I will trust these brave people over the establish- catches1 it. Hence, it is a medical treatment, not a vac- imagination; if they hogged a couple of injections for ment every time. I cannot think of a single similar case cine. I do not want to take a medical treatment for an themselves no one would cry foul. In addition, billion- in history when truth and morality turned out to be on illness I do not have. aires with private jets and private islands are not known the side of the establishment. 2. The drug companies, politicians, medical estab- for waiting in line until hundreds of millions of peasants 16. This is the greatest medical experiment in the lishment, and media have joined forces to univer- all over the world go first to receive anything these bil- history of the human race. sally refer to this as a vaccine, when it is not one, lionaires want for themselves. 17. It is purposely not being portrayed as the with the intention of manipulating people into feel- 10. The establishment media have accepted this greatest medical experiment in the history of the ing safer about undergoing a medical treatment. preposterous excuse without question or concern. human race, and the fact that it is a medical experi- Because they are being deceitful, I do not trust them, Moreover, they laud Pfizer’s executives for their sup- ment at all is being severely downplayed. and want nothing to do with their medical treatment. posed self-sacrifice in not taking their own experimen- 18. Were they up front with the masses, very few 3. The presumed benefits of this medical treat- tal treatment until we go first. Since they consider us would agree to participate in such an experiment. ment are minimal and would not last long in any such fools, I do not trust them, and do not want their Manipulating the masses to participate in a medical case. The establishment acknowledges this, and is new treatment. They can have my place in line. I’ll go experiment under false pretenses violates the founda- already talking about additional shots and ever-increas- to the very back of the line. tions of medical ethics and democratic law. I will not ing numbers of new “vaccines” that would be required 11. Three facts that must be put together: allow unethical people who engage in such conduct to on a regular basis. I refuse to turn myself into a chronic • Bill Gates is touting these vaccines as essential to inject me with anything. patient who receives injections of new pharmaceutical the survival of the human race. 19. The medical establishment is not informing products on a regular basis simply to reduce my chances • Bill Gates believes the world has too many people people about any of this. They have become marketing of getting a severe case of a virus that these injections and needs to be “depopulated”. agents for an experimental drug, serving huge compa- do not even prevent. • Bill Gates, perhaps the richest man in the world, nies and politicians who have made deals with them. 4. I can reduce my chances of getting a severe case has also not been injected. No rush. This is a direct conflict with their mandate to concern of a virus by strengthening my immune system nat- Uh, no. I’ll pass on any medical treatments he wants themselves exclusively with the wellbeing of the people urally. In the event I catch a virus, there are vitamins me to take. under their care. Since the medical establishment has and well-established drugs that have had wonderful 12. The establishment has been entirely one- become corrupted, and has become nothing more than results in warding off the illness, without the risks and sided in celebrating this treatment. The politicians a corporate and political tool, I do not trust the experi- unknowns of this medical treatment. and media are urging people to take it as both a moral mental drug they want so badly to inject me with. 5. The establishment insists that this medical and civic duty. The benefits of the treatment are being 20. We are being pressured in various ways to get treatment is safe. They cannot possibly know this greatly exaggerated, the risks are being ignored, and the injected, which violates medical ethics and the foun- because the long-term effects are entirely unknown, and unknowns are being brushed aside. Because they are dations of democratic society. The best way to get me will not be known for many years. They may speculate being deceitful and manipulative, I will not gamble my not to do something is to pressure me to do it. that it is safe, but it is disingenuous for them to make personal wellbeing on their integrity. 21. The government has sealed their protocol relat- such a claim that cannot possibly be known. Because 13. There is an intense propaganda campaign for ed to the virus and treatments for thirty years. This is they are being disingenuous, I do not trust them, and I people to take this treatment. Politicians and celeb- information that the public has a right to know, and the want no part of their treatment. rities are taking selfies of themselves getting injected government has a responsibility to share. What are they 6. The drug companies have zero liability if any- (perhaps in some cases pretending to get injected), covering up? Do they really expect me to believe that thing goes wrong, and cannot be sued. Same for the the media is hyping this as the coolest, smartest, most everything is kosher about all this, and that they are con- politicians who are pushing this treatment. I will not happy and fun thing to do. It is the most widespread cerned first and foremost with my health? The last time inject myself with a new, experimental medical device marketing campaign in history. This is not at all appro- they did this was with the Yemenite Children Affair. If when the people behind it accept no liability or respon- priate for any medical treatment, let alone a brand new you’re not familiar with it, look it up. Now they’re pull- sibility if something goes wrong. I will not risk my one, and it makes me recoil. ing the same shtick. They didn’t fool me the first time, health and my life when they refuse to risk anything. 14. The masses are following in tow, posting pic- and they’re definitely not fooling me now. 7. Israel’s Prime Minister has openly admitted tures of themselves getting injected with a drug, 22. The government can share our personal medical April / May 2021

that the Israeli people are the world’s laboratory feeding the mass peer pressure to do the same. There data with foreign corporations, but they won’t share for this experimental treatment. I am not interested is something very alarming and sick about this, and their own protocol on the matter with us? I’m out. in being a guinea pig or donating my body to science. I want no part of it. I never took drugs just because 23. The establishment has recruited doctors, rab- 8. Israel agreed to share medical data of its citi- “everyone’s doing it” and it’s cool. I’m certainly not bis, the media, and the masses to harangue people zens with a foreign drug company as a fundamen- going to start now. who don’t want to get injected with a new drug. We tal part of their agreement to receive this treatment. 15. Those who raise concerns about this medical are being called the worst sort of names. We are being I never consented for my personal medical data to be treatment are being bullied, slandered, mocked, cen- told that we believe in crazy conspiracies, that we are shared with any such entity, nor was I even asked. I will sored, ostracized, threatened, and fired from their against science, that we are selfish, that we are murder- not contribute to this sleazy enterprise. jobs. This includes medical professionals who have ers, that we don’t care about the elderly, that it’s our 9. The executives and board members at Pfizer science-based concerns about the drug and caregivers fault that the government continues to impose draco- 18 are on record that they have not taken their own who have witnessed people under their charge suffering nian restrictions on the public. It’s all because we don’t Universe Within want to get injected with an experimental treatment, no questions asked. We are even Gwen Randall-Young PSYCHOLOGY being told that we have a religious obligation to do this, and that we are grave sinners if we do not. They say that if we do not agree to get injected, we should be forced to stay inside our homes forever and be ostracized from public life. This is horrifi c, disgusting, a perversion of common sense, morality, and the Torah. It makes me recoil, and only further cements my distrust of these people and my opposition Self as mirror to taking their experimental drug. How dare they? 24. I know of many people who got injected, but none of them studied the science in depth, carefully weighed the potential benefi ts against the risks, compared this option How will you become a clear mirror if you resent being polished? to other alternatives, was truly informed, and decided this medical treatment was the ~ Rumi best option for them. On the contrary, they got injected because of the hype, the propagan- da, the pressure, the fear, blind trust in what “the majority of experts” supposedly believed ife does have a way of revealing to us where we are tarnished. Situ- (assuming THEY all studied everything in depth and were completely objective, which is ations will trigger energetic places within us that do not feel good. highly dubious), blind trust in what certain infl uential rabbis urged them to do (ditto the These places are generally associated with the ego aspect of our above), or hysterical fear that the only option was getting injected or getting seriously ill being. When we feel resentful, competitive, offended, or are being from the virus. When I see mass hysteria and cult-like behavior surrounding a medical manipulative or dishonest, there is a gut feeling that is unpleasant at treatment, I will be extremely suspicious and avoid it. Lbest – toxic at worst. Often our attention is focused on the people or situations that 25. The drug companies have a long and glorious history of causing mass carnage created this feeling in us, which only intensifi es the toxicity. It does so because with wonder drugs they thrust on unsuspecting populations, even after serious prob- this response takes us into a place of polarity. An adversarial stance requires a lems had already become known. Instead of pressing the pause button and halting the judgement about rightness and wrongness. It appears to create winners and losers, marketing of these drugs until these issues could be properly investigated, the drug compa- but in reality, everyone likely loses. nies did everything in their power to suppress the information and keep pushing their prod- Often, we are aware of a lifetime pattern that seems to repeat itself. The same ucts. When companies and people have demonstrated such gross lack of concern for human things keep happening again and again. People keep treating us in the same unsat- life, I will not trust them when they hype a new wonder drug. This isn’t our fi rst rodeo. isfactory way. Friendships or business deals turn bad. People let us down. We may 26. Indeed, the horror stories are already coming in at warp speed, but the politi- not realize that the same things happen again and again because we are the same. cians are not the least bit concerned, the medical establishment is brushing them Imagine we are mirrors. If we are tarnished, we cannot refl ect clarity. Nothing aside as unrelated or negligible, the media is ignoring it, the drug companies are beheld by our mirror will look clear, or as it really is. The world, as refl ected by steaming ahead at full speed, and those who raise a red fl ag continue to be bullied, our mirror, will always be tainted. If only we could polish it up, restore it to its censored, and punished. Clearly my life and my wellbeing are not their primary con- original purity, everything refl ected in it would look so different. So, what is it cern. I will not be their next guinea pig in their laboratory. I will not risk being the next that tarnishes our mirror? The simple answer would be to say anything that is not “coincidence”. love tarnishes it. The worst offenders are attitudes of judgement, criticism, sep- 27. Although many people have died shortly after getting injected – including arateness, seeing things only from our own point of view, and a need to be right. perfectly healthy young people – we are not allowed to imply that the injection had If we have a problem in our lives, it is interesting to take a step back to see anything to do with it. Somehow this is anti-science and will cause more people to die. what is really causing our distress. We will fi nd that it is not the external even I believe that denying any possible link, abusing people who speculate that there might that is distressing us, but rather our response to it. If someone lets us down, we be a link, and demonstrating not the slightest curiosity to even explore if there might be can see it is not the event itself creating our pain. What creates the pain is our a link is what is anti-science and could very well cause more people to die. These same interpretation of what their behavior implies, or our belief that they should have people believe I am obligated to get injected as well. No freaking thanks. acted differently. The distress originates within us, even though the trigger for it 28. I am repulsed by the religious, cult-like worship of a pharmaceutical product, may be external. and will not participate in this ritual. Sadly, for ego, nothing in life is ever all about us. Whenever we are involved 29. My “healthcare” provider keeps badgering me to get injected, yet they have with others, things become infi nitely more complicated for ego. Polishing our provided me no information on this treatment or any possible alternatives. Every- mirror means clearing away the limited perspectives of ego, so there is room for thing I know I learned from others outside the establishment. Informed consent has compassion, understanding and acceptance. It is realizing all of life is a conversa- become conformed consent. I decline. tion, not a soliloquy. 30. I see all the lies, corruption, propaganda, manipulation, censorship, bullying, Imagine that each person’s life is a big jigsaw puzzle, and that each of us is a and violation of medical ethics. I see a lack of integrity in the scientifi c process, sup- piece in the puzzle of all those in our life. Now imagine that the pieces are not pression of inconvenient adverse reactions, dismissal of legitimate concerns, hysteria, fi xed and rigid but can fl ow and adjust themselves infi nitely. If there is an inten- cult-like behavior, ignorance, closed-mindedness, fear, medical and political tyranny, tion to maintain harmony, it is easy to see how things could fi t together nicely concealment of protocols, lack of true concern for human life, lack of respect for basic in any circumstance. Alternatively, the more rigid the pieces, the less likelihood human rights and freedoms, perversion of the Torah and common sense, demonization of a fi t there will be. If one piece believes it has only one shape, and refuses to of good people, the greatest medical experiment of all time being conducted by greedy, consider any alteration to that shape, then in order for it to fi t, all the other pieces untrustworthy, godless people, the lack of liability for those who demand I risk every- must reshape themselves. The chances of everyone reshaping themselves just so thing… I see all this and I have decided they can all have my place in line. I will put my one piece can feel right are remote. Consequently, that one piece will not fi nd any trust in God. I will use the mind He blessed me with and trust my natural instincts. of the other puzzles to be particularly hospitable places.

April / May 2021 / May April Which leads to the fi nal reason which sums up why I will not Polishing our mirrors removes those places of rigidity and allows for more fl u- / May April get “vaccinated.” idity in our perceptions. Whenever we experience confl ict, tension or disharmony, 31. The Whole thing Stinks.j it is likely that we need to look at ourselves as much as the other. Rather than resenting the suggestion from others or from our own higher wisdom that some- Chananya Weissman is the founder of EndTheMadness and the author thing needs polishing, we can learn to welcome those opportunities, knowing we 2021 of seven books, including Go Up Like a Wall and How to Not Get Mar- have nothing to lose but a little tarnish—and a lot to gain in clarity. j ried: Break these rules and you have a chance. He lives in Israel and has produced and directed two documentaries, Single Jewish Male, Gwen Randall-Young is an author and psychotherapist in private practice. To read more arti- and The Shidduch Chronicles, available on YouTube. cles, order books or listen to audio recordings, visit www.gwen.ca, or follow her on Facebook. 19 VIFF organic

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