Alexandros Marinos (is in Crete)

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Oh look, the person near the root of both the "lab leak is racist" and the "ivm is horse dewormer" memes officially joins the (even) deep(er) state.

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Personal news: I’m leaving my dream team @Nature for a fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org.

Thanks to my amazing editors, I’ve had the privilege to cover a range of stories over the past 5.5 years.

🧵of memories

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Personal news: I’m leaving my dream team @Nature for a fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org.

Thanks to my amazing editors, I’ve had the privilege to cover a range of stories over the past 5.5 years.

🧵of memories

Pre-pando, I admit to being a giddy to cover stories such as this one on duck dicks.

If this is the only story you read in this thread, know that you are not alone.

nature.com/articles/natur…

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Sexual competition among ducks wreaks havoc on penis size - Nature

When forced to compete for mates, some birds develop longer penises and others almost nothing at all.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22648

Also in 2017, I spent hot days & cold nights under the stars in Death Valley with some of the world’s top rat experts, as they compared field notes from early 1900s to field notes now. #climatechange nature.com/articles/55016…

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The ambitious effort to document California’s changing deserts - Nature

Ecologists catalogue bird and mammal populations as warming transforms Death Valley.

https://www.nature.com/articles/550168a

I went to Myanmar & Cambodia to cover drug-resistant malaria.

Memorable moment? Riding motorcycles along dirt paths crossed by elephants in central Myanmar with a team of young medical workers, most of them riding the bikes in long wrap-around skirts.

Malaria’s ticking time bomb

Scientists are racing to stamp out the disease in southeast Asia before unstoppable strains spread.

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-018-05772-z/index.html

In 2019, I traveled with @DrTedros to Congo, to see how a revamped @WHO handled #Ebola in a very unstable part of the world.

Memory? Local descriptions of terrorism, of loved ones left dead from explosives & guns. Lesson? There is no glory in violence.

Exclusive: Behind the front lines of the Ebola wars

How the World Health Organization is battling bullets, politics and a deadly virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02673-7

March 1, 2020. I fly to Seattle & meet researchers at @UW who have been pleading with @CDCgov & @FDA to allow them to test for COVID.

Here I learn (1) Covid is already out of control (2) Our system for handling outbreaks is broken (3) We're in trouble!!!

The race to unravel the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the United States

As cases in Washington state soar, virologists are working around the clock to diagnose cases, reveal routes of transmission and test treatments.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00676-3

Mid-pandemic, I drive to the agricultural heartland of Cali to witness the toll of COVID on communities that are exploited & discriminated against in our unbalanced society.

I ask why so many scientists know about such problems but don't address them.

Will COVID force public health to confront America's epic inequality?

In California's San Joaquin Valley, some researchers are turning political to address the social determinants of health.

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-00943-x/index.html

My parting feature is about the forces that sustain vaccine inequality around the world & a plan to shift the imbalance.

As a science reporter, it’s my duty to ask why health disparities exist, what solutions could be & what prevents them from success.

Unseating big pharma: the radical plan for vaccine equity

Charity failed to provide adequate vaccines for the global south. Now, 15 countries are seeing whether an open-science model can end a dangerous legacy of dependency.

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-01898-3/index.html

PS writing @Nature has been especially gratifying bc the journal is an institution. As a grad student, I literally slept in the lab in order to achieve "Nature paper."

Now, off to @CFR_org to learn new things, to start from zero yet again.

Neuroanatomy of sea spiders implies an appendicular origin of the protocerebral segment - Nature

The arthropod body is made up of distinct body segments plus the head region. The latter causes a problem, known as the ‘arthropod head problem’, which is to explain how modern arthropod heads evolved…

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03984

PSS Dolores & I made the cover! Best parting gift ever.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/welcome-to-gilead

Welcome to Gilead

A scientific scandal with huge implications for women's health is brewing and you weren't going to hear about it - until now.

Welcome to Gilead

A scientific scandal with huge implications for women's health is brewing and you weren't going to hear about it - until now.

Please bear with me because this story will need some explanation. The Handmaid’s tale reference is necessary to understand the significance of any misogynistic malfeasance involved, because if my suspicions are correct the paper that I’m going to discuss shows that women in every developed country are at risk of a tsunami of women’s cancers. It seems, however, that the premature death of a generation of women doesn’t matter to those who, presumably, envisage running the Committee of Gilead in the near future (where dystopia meets reality).

To give you some context of the medical issue at question here is the accomplished and talented Angelina Jolie whose history is relevant. If you weren’t aware Angelina underwent a prophylactic mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer because she has a BRCA gene mutation.

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>>16937958

Some information came to me from a colleague in the last few days that has cemented everything I have come to learn about where science and medicine is going and unless this changes quickly it will end badly for everyone. It involves the discovery late last year that a generation of women exposed to the SARS-CoV2 spike protein could be at significant risk of ovarian & breast cancer - and two bearded PhDs in influential positions went out of their way to make sure that information was buried. Because, who cares about women when you are trying to save the world, right?

The two beardos in question are Eric O Freed of the NIH (National Institutes of Health) - ironically a cancer researcher, and Oliver Shildgen “Head of molecular pathology at the Private University Witten”.

I made a picture of them. Shildgen is the one that looks like Jack-Black-meets-Mr-Potato-Head and Freed the one that looks like the love child of Chuck Norris and Steve Jobs. (Sorry, but it’s true).

You see, the BRCA gene is really important. It is part of the “homologous recombination DNA repair pathway”. Which is one of the mechanisms that the body uses to stop your cells turning cancerous in response to environmental stress, and which is why women with BRCA mutations are at much higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer than those without.

One of the most important components of this pathway is p53 (or TP53) which is commonly called the “guardian of the genome”. If you want to read more about it this is a nice summary or if you want a reverse-lispy Englishman’s cringey explanation go here. Either way, p53 is the king (ahem - queen) of cancer prevention and without it (or BRCA and its buddies) you’re going to get cancer before most other people. In particular, if you’re a woman with a BRCA-related mutation your chance of getting breast or ovarian cancer before the age of 50 shoots up dramatically.

So, if there was a novel therapeutic that interfered with the body’s cells’ ability to produce p53 and make the BRCA pathway work defending our genome - you would think that would be important, wouldn’t you? Well I guess it depends on who is funding the therapeutic and whether they care two hoots whether you (or your mother, wife or daughter) get cancer.

Well, someone cared. Two people actually. Let me introduce a paper on exactly this subject catchily entitled “SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination In Vitro” (otherwise known as the Jiang study after the authors Hui Jiang and Ya-Fang Mei). On the face of it, the study is nothing to do with ovarian cancer or breast cancer, it’s about lymphocytes.

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>>16937963

This is the paper - it’s worth archiving.

For the record, VDJ recombination is one of the coolest things in nature. It is the mechanism behind the body’s creation of immunity (or what we used to call immunity before Tony Fauci and the WHO changed the definition). It’s how T- and B- cells magically create new proteins to neutralise nasty bugs.

It also has something really important in common with our ovarian cancer pathway, in that it relies on DNA strand breakage and repair - it’s essential to the process, and it’s the same process seen in p53-dependent ovarian and breast cancer.

So when Jiang and Mei designed an experiment to look at the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 proteins might impact this pathway in lymphocytes they were doing an experiment that was of vital importance to world’s population.

What did they find? Well, unfortunately something really important. That is, of all the proteins produced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, one of them - the spike protein - obliterated the DNA repair mechanism in lymphocytes. Yeah, that’s really bad. Here is the graph from the paper showing the level of “HR efficiency” (i.e. homologous repair efficiency, i.e. the ability of the cell to repair DNA) seen with the different proteins of the virus. The spike protein was so toxic to this pathway that it knocked 90% of it out. This is an environment that is almost guaranteed to cause cancer.

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>>16937965

So does it matter that some good guys in a Swedish university (that are experts in the field and have been producing papers on this stuff for years, by the way) published a paper showing that the nasty Ecohealth77(™) virus (aka SARS2, COVID, Wuhan-1 and a few other choice names) produced proteins that - if they hung around long enough - would stop your cells’ protection mechanism against cancer? Well, no - provided that the stuff (the protein it makes) didn’t hang around long, didn’t get into the nucleus, and didn’t get to the ovaries. Fortunately, if you get infected with said virus and your immune system is working the spike protein should be rapidly neutralised and so you shouldn’t be at risk of these cancers from a “COVID-19” infection.

But… What you really, really don’t want in this scenario is

(1) the spike protein in the vicinity of the nucleus, where the DNA repair happens

(2) the spike protein to be continually produced

(3) a full length spike artificial protein matching the viral spike, because we don’t know which bit of the spike protein is causing this effect.

Well, guess what?

It just so happens that there is a genetic therapy currently in production that

(1) induces spike protein to be produced in and around the cell nucleus

(2) is produced for at least 60 days and almost certainly longer

(3) produces the full length spike exactly matching (amino acid for amino acid1) the full length of the viral spike protein

But, hold on I hear you say. All those clever commentators on my social media feed keep saying that the spike doesn’t get into the nucleus, don’t they? And they debunked the Jiang story on this basis didn’t they?

Well of course they tried, but they lied. And in fact the Jiang study simply reproduced what Pfizer had already done, proving beyond all doubt that the spike protein gets into the nucleus.

Here is the version of the confocal microscopy study from the Jiang study - blue is the nucleus (the black around is the rest of the cell) and the bright green is the spike protein tagged with a fluorescent marker. As you can see, the spike is completely in the nucleus. There is no doubt. And to reinforce this, the fact that the study showed 90% inhibition of p53 activity means that it had to be active in the nucleus (because that’s where p53 lives).

Yes but those nice government people that lied about all the other stuff said that the spike protein from the vaccine doesn’t get into the nucleus, right? They didn’t lie about that did they?

Well, I hate to let you down here but this next picture is from the TGA’s document referenced above2 from the pre-clinical studies of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. This is the document that the TGA had before they authorised the product. The EMA, MHRA and FDA had the same documents. In the TGA version it’s on page 25 of the “BioNtech BNT162 investigator’s brochure” (which sounds like a holiday brochure from the days we could go on holiday, doesn’t it?).

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>>16937968

Here you are. I’ve put a big red arrow on to show you that there is plenty of spike protein in the nucleus of the cell shown. It’s a slam dunk.

But that’s just a one-off right?

Wrong. Here is the equivalent slide from the TGA “nonclinical evaluation report” 3, showing the spike protein being produced in the ER near the nucleus (as sold in the glossy brochure) but then being located (again) into the nucleus. This picture is a little faint but I suspect that is by design4.

OK so it gets into the nucleus, but it doesn’t hang around does it? They said it only lasts hours or days and then disintegrates. That’s true isn’t it?

No. In fact this was shown in a huge study by one of the most respected molecular biology groups in the world at Stanford university in a mammoth paper. They showed that the RNA was still present and active after 60 days. Other researchers have shown activity beyond 28 days and others even longer, so it’s “a thing”. It doesn’t break down in 2 days, that was a lie.

So now we have the mRNA vaccines producing the same full length spike protein, entering the nucleus where Jiang and Mei proved that the protein stops DNA repair (i.e. induces cancer risk) in lymphocytes.

Well, Jiang did make a mistake. And the mistake he made was to admit in the paper that there was a possibility - or probability - that because the vaccine spike was the same as the virus spike, the vaccine had a real risk of causing cancer-inducing changes in DNA. Well, you see, you are not allowed to do that - because that will upset the pharma companies whose advertising funds nearly every major medical journal.

And once this paper was published it started dawning on people (and mice) what the implications were

Which meant that the Medical Establishment™ had to act, because we can’t allow those pesky mice to let it slip that this novel therapy (making the Medical Establishment™ billions of dollars) is going to put every woman that takes it at risk of cancers that are unique to them, can we?

So, within 2 months of the Jiang paper being published, Freed and Schildgen submitted the most ridiculous expression of concern I have ever seen to the journal. The claim was that they weren’t happy with the study design. But the phrasing was totally bizarre, suggesting that the author of the paper had expressed concerns about his own paper. This was false and it was Freed who had raised the concerns - referred to in the 3rd party as “one of the authors” - i.e. of the expression of concern!

So who is Eric Freed? Well he is a big-wig at NIH. Yes the same NIH that funded Moderna - one of the pharma companies producing covid-19 mRNA vaccines. An obvious conflict of interest. Did he declare his conflict of interest in the letter to MDPI? No, of course not. He just needed the paper gone (because, who cares about women, right?)

And Oliver Shildgen (Mr Potato Head)? Well not only is he listed as the “academic editor” on that same paper but he published in the same year a paper whose co-authors had declared disclosures with nearly every major pharma company including Pfizer. And he sure gets around with lots of fingers in government pies….

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>>16937976

And of course he didn’t really declare his interest in developing gene therapy vectors (which are the same as the vaccine vectors, you’re just not allowed to call those gene therapy, obviously)

And of course he didn’t really declare his interest in developing gene therapy vectors (which are the same as the vaccine vectors, you’re just not allowed to call those gene therapy, obviously)

Nor did he declare here that his funding comes from foundations including the Else-Kroener-Fresenius foundation, whose history is interesting to say the least. In case you didn’t know, Fresenius another huge German pharma corporation.

But the weirdest thing about Prof Dr Schildgen is that he was the actual editor of the journal that accepted the Jiang paper - presumably ensuring that in October it met the high standards of scientific merit and probity required - yet in December it didn’t?

Yes, the same guy that supervised the peer review of this paper then, within 2 months, co-authors an expression of concern about the paper that he approved for publication. Clearly, he needs to resign. That is not good enough for an editor who then makes no commentary about his role in the paper’s publication or its retraction.

So, what was the complaint exactly that made this paper so bad that it needed to be retracted? Remember that scientific papers need to declare valid experimental results objectively following which the authors are expected to make their own subjective commentary about the interpretation of the results. If you don’t agree - tough, write a rebuttal. You can’t retract a paper based on your disagreement with the conclusions. Retractions are almost exclusively for fraud. Well here is the full complaint published at MDPI:

Bearing in mind that the highlighted “first author” refers to Eric Freed of the NIH (not Jiang), here is my translation of Freed’s trumped up claims:

(1) I’m not happy that you used a His-tag to show that the spike protein was in the nucleus, because that gives the game away. Yes, I know His-tagging is a totally appropriate method for this experiment but I didn’t like the result so…

(2) I’m not happy that you used a totally established and standard GFP reporter system for the same reason, even though I’ve written about its extensive use

(3) Although all experimental designs have the possibility of ambiguity in the results, I’m only bothered about this one and haven’t complained about any other paper using the same methods ever

(4) I know that you didn’t state the impact of vaccines on this pathway - merely raised theoretical concerns - but I am going to make out that you did and then ask you to retract the article based on claim that you did

(5) I realise that you stated that you didn’t use the full length spike protein, and that it was Pfizer and Moderna’s responsibility to do exactly these experiments - but I’m going to make out that the fact that no genotoxicity experiments were performed for these vaccines is actually your problem, not theirs

(6) I’m going to frame the whole thing as though your conclusions are not valid and even though conclusions in a scientific paper are solely the domain of the authors of the paper, I’m going to say that your conclusions don’t count and you will have to retract the paper. And I have the NIH behind me so you don’t stand a chance - because, science, you know.

Despite this ridiculous and politically motivated attack on the paper, and no suggestion of fraud, Oliver Schildgen said nothing but joined forces with Freed so that it was not-so-obvious that it was the NIH who didn’t like this paper. This is a massive conflict of interests and it is not only unscientific but arguably unethical for one person to have so much clout that they can order a paper retracted on a whim.

So what happens now?

Well, the spike protein circulating in large quantities, in the direct vicinity of the cell nucleus, for elongated periods of time, has the potential to induce cancer in those cells. Which cells are the most likely to be affected? Any that are known to be affected by p53 and BRCA abnormalities: ovary, pancreas, breast, prostate. lymph nodes. These cancers can take years to develop and so it’s possible that we don’t see much of a safety signal for 5 or 10 years, and then Pfizer and Moderna will claim that it was “COVID” or “lockdowns” that caused the deluge of women’s (and some men’s) cancers.

pt6

>>16937986

By then of course, we might be living under the “new normal” touted by so many of our world leaders and health chiefs, with people like Freed and Schildgen in charge. Imagine what kind of medical dystopia we look forward to when the very people who we rely on to keep us safe (or at least be honest and transparent in their attempts) instead ordain the suffering of a generation of women.

Not too far from Gilead, really.

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The Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines are exact amino acid replicas of the Wuhan-1 SARS-COV-2 spike protein, apart from one dual-proline amino acid change in a part of the protein that isn’t exposed to receptor binding (i.e. makes no functional difference)

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TGA FOI 2389 document 6

Tga Foi 2389 06 Nonclinical Evaluation Report

6.93MB ∙ PDF File

Read now

Read now

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Charlatans will use that picture to claim that what you are seeing is “perinuclear staining” i.e. randomly collected protein that is collecting around the outside of the nucleus. This is false because (a) perinuclear staining doesn’t look like that, it creates a ring around the nucleus and (b) transfection methods (e.g. lipid nanoparticles) are intended by design to get your gene product into the cell all the way to the nucleus. There is no way that they can stop it. Anybody telling you otherwise is lying. If you don’t believe me, look up transfection (preferably in an article predating COVID)

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https://mobile.twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1553310062302691330

Wittgenstein

@backtolife_2023

The German Hospital Society has spoken out in favor of lifting the corona vaccination requirement for nursing and healthcare staff. Nursing vaccination obligation "no longer useful"

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Krankenhausgesellschaft: Pflege-Impfpflicht aufheben

Die Impfpflicht für Pflege- und Gesundheitspersonal ist laut Krankenhausgesellschaft hinfällig und nicht mehr sinnvoll.

4:22 AM · Jul 30, 2022

https://mobile.twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1553310062302691330

https://doorlesscarp953.substack.com/p/autoimmune-disorders-covid-19-spike

Autoimmune disorders: COVID-19, spike protein & homologous epitopes

Abstract

This is a literature review of some of the research and articles investigating the relationship between COVID-19/spike protein and other infections, autoimmune disorders and their contribution to disease severity & long term sequalae.

It begins with warnings made by experts in their field, describes the two categories of autoimmune disorders and explains what pathogenic priming is, along with a review of the paper researching this. A selection of the autoimmune targeted proteins are described, along with pathologies associated with their dysfunction.

Subsequently published papers served to confirm the findings of Lyons-Weiler, and by considering a wider range of potential antigens using different analytical techniques more potential autoimmune targets and disorders were specified. Whether protein folding and structure is a factor in autoimmunity is also considered. Researchers repeatedly made calls for safer vaccines to be developed, lacking any of these homologous epitopes.

It was found that aged mice provided animal models that were most representative of human autoimmune responses, many homologous epitopes were found, and a paper investigating this is reviewed.

Indicative timescales from first testing positive for autoimmune antibodies to the onset of symptomatic disease for various conditions are discussed.

Geanes et al published their findings including that a healthy gut biome correlates to a stronger S2 antibody response on vaccination, and in turn the vaccinal response may be deleterious to the same bacteria.

A recently published paper by Nunez-Castilla et al (28th June ‘22) hypothesises that COVID-19 infection may induce the production of TQLPP-specific antibodies against its epitope that can cross-react with human thrombopoietin (hTPO), a glycoprotein hormone produced by the liver and kidney which regulates the production of platelets.

From September 2022, Kanduc reports on the findings from an in silico study analysing molecular mimicry and the related cross-reactive potential between SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (gp) antigen and human tumor-suppressor proteins. She concludes with warnings of a post COVID-19 “cancer pandemic” and recommends intensification of clinical surveillance in oncology and to undertake rigid cancer prevention actions, including healthy lifestyle, continuous controls and other actions.

Dotan et al published a paper in 2021 with their findings that SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein was found to share 41 minimal immune determinants (pentapeptides) with 27 human proteins that relate to oogenesis, uterine receptivity, decidualization, and placentation. 23 of the 27 shared pentapeptides are also present in SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein-derived epitopes that have been experimentally validated as immunoreactive. They caution this may lead to reproductive dysfunction, recommend increased vigilance and in depth experimental studies.

Research into the association with various conditions such as multiple sclerosis, myocarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome and long-COVID is reviewed, along with a disturbing paper that discusses how anti-spike protein autoantibodies are extremely detrimental to the health of mouse pups unless non-pathogenic antibodies are also present - nearly half the pups died or were sick due to Antibody Dependent Auto-Attack (ADAA). Potential consequences of this for human fertility and the health of the developing child need hardly be stated.

Chen et al published a paper on the many case reports that had been recorded by the end of 2021, confirming that prior warnings of vaccine induced autoimmune disorders were well founded.

The presence of anti-DNA and anti-phosphatidylserine antibodies were found to predict the development of severe COVID-19 in a study by Gomes et al.

A study using a murine model of virus induced autoimmune disorders and the difficulties presented to getting a diagnosis or in specifying the trigger is reviewed. Due to the broad antibody responses found, central tolerance is considered more important than just molecular mimicry.

A 2022 published paper by Labombarde et al found an association between “universal” influenza vaccines with a wide range of non-conserved epitopes and the induction of autoimmune disorders.

A 2018 study by Tang et al discusses gamma interferon induced autoimmunity and bone destruction.

With respect to syndromes like long-COVID, one concerning hypothesis is the generation of antibodies to antibodies (ie anti-idiotype or “Ab2”) that have similar pathogenicity as the original spike protein. An article discussing this is presented.

The review concludes with a discussion on diagnosis and therapeutics.

>>16937488

All is whole. indeed.

>>16937478

https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/pope-francis-says-catholic-church-committed-cultural-genocide-canadas-indigenous

Pope Francis says Catholic Church committed cultural ‘genocide’ of Canada's Indigenous peoples

ON BOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM CANADA — Pope Francis on July 29 said that the Catholic Church’s treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada amounted to a cultural “genocide” and warned against a colonialist mindset that continues to view Native peoples and customs as “inferior.”

Francis said that “taking away the children, changing the culture and mentality” and erasing “an entire culture” was effectively a “genocide.”

The pope’s remarks came during an inflight press conference en route back to Rome after his July 24-29 trip to Canada, where he apologized on multiple occasions for the abuse that Indigenous children suffered at Catholic-run residential schools, as well as for the church's adoption of policies that stripped away Indigenous culture.

The phrase “cultural genocide” was used by the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its final report in 2015. During his first full day in the country on July 25, Francis apologized for the "cultural destruction" resulting from the residential schools, but stopped short of calling it a genocide.

“Genocide is a technical term,” said Francis on his flight home, affirming that while he did not specifically use it during the trip, that what he had described in apologizing for the treatment of Indigenous peoples at residential schools could be characterized as such.

“I asked for forgiveness for this genocidal work,” he added.

Francis was also asked about appeals to rescind the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a policy dating back to the 15th century that offered a theological justification for the colonization of Indigenous lands.

While church officials have maintained that the doctrine no longer has any legal merits, Canada's bishops' have been working with Vatican officials for a formal rescission of the policy, which has been an ongoing demand of many Indigenous advocates.

At various points throughout his time in the country, Francis was met with banners and shouts from protestors calling on him to take action, though he did not comment directly on the doctrine during his visit.

While he avoided discussion of the legal questions surrounding it, the pope told reporters that “this doctrine of colonization is evil and unjust and used today.”

“That mentality,” said Francis, that “we are superior and these Indigenous do not count, that is very serious.”

“Even today, we see the same kind of colonialism,” said Francis, adding that it was necessary to go back and fix “the wrong that was done.”

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>>16938063

Francis answered questions for just over 40 minutes and, for the first time during his 37 international trips as pope, remained seated for the duration of his exchange with journalists, due to his ongoing mobility issues stemming from a fracture in his knee.

For months, the pope has been dogged with questions regarding his health and a possible resignation, but Francis again denied that he had plans to step down any time soon.

At the same time, the 85-year-old pope acknowledged that his papacy has entered into a different phase, describing his six-day trip through Canada as “pretty intense” and an unsustainable pace for future travels.

“I don’t think I will be able to follow the same rhythm as previous trips,” he said, citing both his age and his limited mobility.

“I have to save energy to serve the church,” he said.

Francis confirmed that he would like to travel to Ukraine, which senior Vatican officials have hinted could take place in the coming months, and that he intends to also make a September visit to Kazakhstan to participate in the Congress of World and Traditional Religions.

There, he is likely to hold a meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a key backer of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, who is also set to attend the congress.

The pope also reiterated his desire to travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, where he was scheduled to visit in early July, but was forced to postpone due to complications with his knee.

“I have all the good will,” he told reporters. “Let’s see how my leg goes.”

At the same time, he seemed to admit with ease that there could come a time when he could no longer carry on with the demands of the papacy.

“I have to discern, to understand what the Lord wants,” he said. “And it might be that the Lord wants me to step aside.”

“That wouldn’t be a catastrophe,” he surmised. “You can change the pope; that’s not a problem.”

Francis also discussed several internal matters of church life, saying that the unsigned communication from the Vatican earlier this month on the German “Synodal Path”— which warned that the country could not move ahead with certain propositions ahead of the Vatican and the universal church — was a message that should have been signed by the Secretariat of State.

Francis said the unsigned nature of the communication was a simple clerical error.

To date, some leaders of the “Synodal Path” have expressed an openness towards women deacons and priests, the blessing of same-sex unions and the relaxation of the rule for mandatory celibacy for most Latin-rite Catholic priests.

In responding to the question regarding the situation in Germany, the pope again cited his 2019 letter to German Catholics that emphasized that synodality is a process that requires listening to the Holy Spirit, rather than prioritizing particular issues or outcomes.

Francis also demurred when asked about the possibility of reexamining church teaching against contraception.

While the pope defended the work of theologians who have called for such a change, saying “one cannot do theology with a ‘no’ in front of you,” he said the church’s Magisterium “helps to understand the limits.”

While not addressing the question of contraception directly, Francis went on to note that there are plenty of areas of church teaching that have changed over time, saying that “a church that does not develop its thinking in an ecclesial way is a church that goes backward.”

“That is the problem of many today who claim to be traditionalists. They are not traditionalists, they are backwardists,” said the pope. “Tradition is the root of inspiration in order to go forward in the church."

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https://webtimes.uk/bob-costas-hits-unvaccinated-mlb-players-hurting-your-team/

Bob Costas Hits Unvaccinated MLB Players ‘Hurting Your Team’

Sportscaster Bob Costas told CNN he doesn’t understand why some MLB players refuse to get vaccinated, even when it means being prohibited from playing games in Toronto during a playoff race.

Canada requires travelers to the country to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

Numerous players have been unable to travel with their teams to play the Toronto Blue Jays due to the policy. Moreover, the Blue Jays currently hold the top spot in the American League Wild Card race. If their lead holds, they will host a crucial elimination playoff series in October.

After name-checking the unvaccinated Andrew Benintendi, who was just traded by the Kansas City Royals to the New York Yankees who play in the American League East division with the Blue Jays, Costas cited Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado of the St. Louis Cardinals.

“The St. Louis Cardinals’ two best players – Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt – both unvaccinated, missed the two games just this past week in Toronto,” Costas said. “The Cardinals are in a race with the Brewers in the National Central and in a race for a Wild Card spot. So, leave aside any medical opinion, leave aside the politics of it, this is a team sport.”

Costas later added, “No matter whether you agree or disagree with the mandates or any country’s rules and regulations, you are hurting your own team when you don’t get vaccinated under these circumstances.”

He concluded, “Forget about geopolitics. What do you tell your teammates? You leave them in the lurch. I don’t get it.”

https://twitter.com/StreetFights69/status/1553293017775312896

perfect execution. improper situation to use, however.

SPLC Promotes Explicit Sex Book to Elementary Students, Says 2 Year Old’s Can Know They are Transgender

https://twitter.com/genderidentityk/status/1551658661876879360

https://foreigndesknews.com/us/splc-promotes-explicit-sex-book-to-elementary-students-says-2-year-olds-can-know-they-are-transgender/

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) project, Learning for Justice, promoted an explicit sex education book for elementary school students in a guide to teachers.

The guide was published by Learning for Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and is titled “Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students.” The guide discusses pronouns, sex education, and policies surrounding cross-sex access to sports and bathrooms.

It also promotes a number of books, including one intended for children and written by Cory Silverberg, the founder of a “beginner’s sex store” and a leader in the leftist sex education movement.

Under the section titled “The LGBTQ Library,” the SPLC’s Learning for Justice promotes Silverberg’s book, titled “Sex is a Funny Word,” for elementary school students.

The guide described Silverberg’s book as “less controversial than the title suggests” before praising it as “an essential resource about bodies, gender and sexuality for young children.” Though the guide presents the book as a tame educational resource, it features explicit content not suitable for children.

A Twitter user purchased the book and proceeded to document the mature content featured between the covers. One section of the book is titled “touching yourself.” It even includes an illustration of a girl in a bathtub.

Would anyone like to talk about the fact that @nytimes TheDaily featured this past sunday "Sex is a Funny Word" author, Cory Silverberg…He wants to "see a world with no normative pressures around sex." The book is 7-10yr olds, and has a graphic of a child having an orgasm. pic.twitter.com/qW37p7agb7

— genderidentityk12 (@genderidentityk) July 25, 2022

“Sex is a Funny Word” is just one of the many books promoted by the guide for teachers. The guide also promotes other books for young children, including “I am Jazz,” a story that promotes child transgenderism, and a “Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity.”

Additionally, the guide strives to embed a number of different leftist practices and beliefs in schools. For example, the Learning for Justice guide tells educators that the claim “students are too young to know their gender identity or sexual orientation” is a “myth” and instead argues that “children often know their gender as early as 2 or 3 years old.”

It also advocates for men to be able to compete against women in school sports and use both women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. Teachers are told that they should also “challenge gender norms” and “model inclusive pronoun use.”

The Learning for Justice framework has been used in schools, though it is not usually specified whether or not districts follow the suggestions of this specific guide.

California’s Glendale Unified School District, for example, used Learning for Justice as the basis for its four-day professional development series. Chicago Public Schools also references the project of the Southern Poverty Law Center in their “social justice standards” and “equity toolkit.”

The Learning for Justice guide explains that the aim of the Southern Poverty Law Center is to use a number of tools, including school curriculums, “to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people.”

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WATCH: widowed Vicky Spit

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submitted Freedom of Information Request to UK gov on why vaccine makers have indemnity:

Vicky: “They have literally said…we know things that if we told the public they wouldn't want to get these vaccines so we're NOT GOING TO TELL YOU”

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