Chris Pavloski, Rumble's CEO Discusses Taking On Government For The Right For Freedom Of SpeechMedia Matters is out to get Rumble and destroyed by going after advertisers. Youtube is going all in to take down an ever growing audience of free speech on Rumble. The more Big Tech tries the more they fail!
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https://rumble.com/embed/v3wz0d3/?pub=4
Air Force’s Missileer Cancer Study Now Looking at 14 Different Cancers and Environmental Risks at Other Bases
Thomas Novelly, Dec 04, 2023
The Air Force said it is now examining whether 14 different cancers may be more prevalent among its active-duty and veteran missileers and expanding an ongoing study to see if service has put their health at increased risk.
Carcinogens that likely cause cancer such as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs were detected and cleaned up at three Air Force nuclear missile bases in the U.S. over the past year, the service said in an update Friday. But officials said they've only scratched the surface and are examining potential links for those who served at newer and older bases in an even larger health study expected to be finished in June 2024.
The Air Force commissioned a study and environmental testing at the three missile bases after a Space Force Guardian and former missileer created a presentation in December 2022 asking, "Do missileers have increased cancer risk?" according to a slide from a town hall provided by Air Force Global Strike Command.
"We want to reassure people that have served at those prior bases, that we're not just looking at people that served at the three active missile bases," Col. Tory Woodard, the commander of the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, said. "We know that some people that previously were missileers are now serving in other locations, many of them, you know, serve at the Pentagon … Our data set is looking at people that served across the Air Force."
The initial environmental studies conducted throughout this year included the three active-duty Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile bases – Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana; Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota; and F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming.
Other bases will now also be screened for environmental carcinogens.
Air Force officials said Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, which does rocket launches and missile tests, is one of the sites that will receive additional environmental testing and could lead to others being examined.
"We will use the environmental sampling results from Vandenberg, historical documentation and a review of current operations to help us define what, if any, environmental sampling should be done," Woodard told Military.com in a follow-up email.
A third round of environmental sampling is scheduled for next spring, according to service officials. But in addition to examining air, water, soil and surface samples in and around missile alert facilities, a larger health study is also ongoing.
A town hall presentation from Air Force Global Strike Command shared with Military.com on Friday showed the service is also looking at veterans who served at older Titan II and Minuteman II bases, including Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota; Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota; Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri; McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas; and Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.
While the Space Force Guardian's presentation a year ago lookedprimarily at rates of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among missileers who served, primarily, at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Air Force officials now acknowledge the problem could be more widespread than initially thought.
"This is a large multi-phase study pulling from multiple DoD, VA, national and state databases to include electronic medical records, cancer rates, and cancer indexes and death indexes," Woodard said. "
"So, we're really as we do this, we're looking for 14 common cancers, to make sure that we look at all those rates of cancers," he said. In the 36 cancer cases among missileers the Space Force officer detailed in January, 10 were diagnosed as non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Two developed Hodgkin lymphoma, and 24 developed another form of cancer.
Overall, eight of the 36 missileers with cancer diagnoses, themajority of whom served at Malmstrom sometime between 1997 and 2007, have died.
In 2001, the Air Force Institute for Operational Health now called the Defense Institute for Medical Operations did a site evaluation and sampled for potential chemical and biological contaminants at Malmstrom after cases of various cancers from missileers were reported – including cervical, thyroid, Hodgkin lymphoma and two cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in which those patients died, according to a report issued in 2005.
The Air Force said in 2005, following the release of the report, that "there is not sufficient evidenceto consider the possibility of a cancer clustering….
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/04/air-force-expands-study-of-cancer-among-missileers-and-weighs-environmental-testing-vandenberg-space.html
Army Veteran Files Lawsuit Alleging VA Computer System Delayed Cancer Diagnosis
December 05, 2023 at 9:35am ET.
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WASHINGTON — An Eastern Washington veteran and his wife aresuing the federal government and the companies behind a computer system the Department of Veterans Affairs has tested in Spokane, alleging that flaws in the system delayed the diagnosis of cancer that became terminal before it could be treated.
Chewelah resident Charlie Bourg and his wife, Deborah Brinson, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington on Friday. They are seeking unspecified monetary damages from the government and thecompanies that have developed the electronic health record system — including Cerner, to which the VA awarded a $10 billion contract in 2018, and Oracle, which acquired Cerner for $28.3 billion in 2022. (Obama wanted the flawed system so ACA could kill millions, with the destruction of US healthcare. This is well known.)
Bourg, a vocal critic of the system who went to the U.S. Capitol in December 2022 to ask Congress to scrap it, saidhe blames the government and the companies that brought the system to Spokane's Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center, not the doctors and nurses who use the system to track patient data and coordinate care. Bourg has been told his prostate cancer has spread and is no longer treatable.
"Everybody at the hospital has been good to me, except for the administration," he said. "They tried to do everything right — whether the urologists, the primary care, the oncologists — and they've all suffered from this program, too, along with the rest of the staff there."
After the Obama administration gave Cerner a $4.3 billion contract in 2015 to adopt the company's system in military hospitals, the Trump administration did the same for VA hospitals in 2018 despite the VA's existing system being popular among health care workers. Officials in both the Trump and Biden administrations have maintained that using the same system will help the two departments coordinate care more effectively.
ThePentagon and the VA chose Spokane as the pilot sitefor both rollouts, launching the system at Fairchild Air Force Base in February 2017 and at Mann-Grandstaff in October 2020.
Soon after the system arrived at the Spokane VA hospital, according to the lawsuit, Bourg had a routine blood test in December 2020 that showed signs of possible prostate cancer. His primary care provider sent a message through the new system to a urology specialist, who opened the message a day later and placed a "return to clinic" order to schedule a follow-up appointment.
The lawsuit alleges that a "system defect" caused the order to "route to a massive unorganized queue and essentially disappear," so the urology clinic didn't schedule a follow-up. The next time Bourg saw his primary care provider, in April 2021, they realized what had happened and the provider sent another order to schedule an appointment in early May.
While that order went to the correct recipient, a different system defect allegedly changed the date of the appointment to September 2021 — four months later than ordered, Bourg later learned when he asked his provider what happened. When he saw a urologist and had a biopsy in October 2021, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
After a surgery to remove his prostate in January 2022, doctors told Bourg the cancer had spread to other parts of his body and was no longer treatable. A year ago, he said, doctors told him he likely had between one and two years to live.
Bourg's and Brinson's attorney, Mark Kamitomo, said he expects the case to take more than a year, and Bourg said he understands he may not live to see its conclusion. He hopes the court will award damages that he could leave to his wife, children and grandchildren and to a local veterans' group.
"I'm just playing it by ear," Bourg said. "There's not much I can do. Just keep fighting for veterans' care and for my family."
The facts of Bourg's case were described in a June 2022 letter from Mann-Grandstaff Director Robert Fischer to Sen. Patty Murray, D- Wash., whose office had requested an investigation on Bourg's behalf.….
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/05/army-veteran-files-lawsuit-alleging-va-computer-system-delayed-cancer-diagnosis.html
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After the system was rolled out at five hospitals in the Northwest and Ohio, the VA delayed planned launches at larger facilities in Seattle, Portland, Boise and elsewhere when The Spokesman-Review reported in June 2022 that the system had contributed to nearly 150 cases of harm that senior VA officials had not disclosed to Congress or the public.
As of July, the system had contributed to more than 4,400 cases of patient harm, according to data obtained by The Spokesman-Review via the Freedom of Information Act. While the VA classifies most of those cases as "minor," they also include 885 cases of "moderate" harm, 44 cases of "major" harm and nine cases of "catastrophic" harm.
The VA defines minor harm as not causing injury or requiring additional care and moderate harm as increasing the length of stay or level of care needed for one or two patients. Major harm entails permanent loss of bodily function, disfigurement, a problem that requires surgical intervention, or that requires a longer hospital stay or higher level of care for at least three patients.
Death or major permanent loss of function constitute catastrophic harm by the VA's definition. In March, the department acknowledged that the system had contributed to the deaths of four veterans.
Bourg and Brinson each filed a tort claim with the VA in December 2022 and are eligible to sue the government under the Federal Tort Claims Act because the department didn't resolve that claim within six months, according to court documents.
The tort claims asked for $15 million in damages. Kamitomo, an attorney with the Seattle- and Spokane-based Luvera Law Firm, said a court could award higher damages from the companies named as defendants.
After its acquisition by Oracle, Cerner was known as Oracle Cerner and was recently rebranded as Oracle Health. The lawsuit names several Cerner subsidiaries and "unknown John Does" as defendants, partly to account for those name changes.
In their complaint, Bourg and Brinson accuse the U.S. government of negligence and failing "to exercise reasonable care" in the implementation of the new system. They allege that the companies that developed the system failed to design and manufacture a "reasonably safe" product, and failed to adequately train users how to safely use it.
"The medical providers in this case were doing the right thing," Kamitomo said. "They were doing what they were supposed to do. And they put their faith in a system that Cerner and the VA rushed to get out without adequately testing, and that's why we're going after Cerner and the VA."
Kamitomo said he expects Oracle to argue that it is not liable for how the system affected Bourg's care, because the tech giant finalized its deal to acquire Cerner in June 2022.
In September 2022, an Oracle spokesman told The Spokesman-Review the company had looked into what happened in Bourg's case and concluded that its system was not responsible, while calling the situation "tragic."
"Our findings show that nothing related to the EHR's functionality or performance had anything to do with the care this veteran received and was unrelated to their diagnosis or treatment," Oracle spokesman Michael Egbert said in a statement at the time, using the acronym for electronic health record. "The Oracle Cerner EHR is successfully in use at many thousands of health care facilities across the United States without incident."
Oracle Cerner — now Oracle Health — controls roughly 25% of the electronic health record market=, according to the market research firm KLAS. But in the wake of layoffs following the acquisition, some large hospital systems have announced plans to switch to a different system.
That didn't stop Oracle Health chairman David Feinberg — who called the acquisition "a wild success story" — from buying a $19 million Los Angeles penthouse from pop star The Weeknd in August, shortly after the layoffs were reported.
In May, the VA and Oracle agreed on a modified contract with added accountability measuresto continue developing the system, which is scheduled to launch at a joint VA-Defense Department hospital in Chicago in March.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/05/army-veteran-files-lawsuit-alleging-va-computer-system-delayed-cancer-diagnosis.html
(Bullshit) Army Warns Recruiting Efforts Could Take a Hit if Congress Doesn't Pass Ukraine and Israel Funding
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – If Congress does not approve extra funding to cover the bulked-up U.S. troop presence in Europe and the Middle East, the Army could have to dip into funding meant for recruitment to cover costs of the deployments, a top service official warned this weekend.
Speaking at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday, Army Under Secretary Gabe Camarillo said efforts to solve the military recruiting crisis are "absolutely … hamstrung" by funding fights in Congress.
(They think we are stupid! They will find out the truth. The military are not apolitical they are mouthpiece for Lobbyists,)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/04/army-warns-recruiting-efforts-could-take-hit-if-congress-doesnt-pass-ukraine-and-israel-funding.html
Former US Ambassador Arrested in Florida, Accused of Serving as an Agent of Cuba, Source Says
December 04, 2023
MIAMI — A former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government, The Associated Press has learned.
Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday on a criminal complaint and more details about the case are expected to be made public at a court appearance Monday, said two people who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing federal investigation.
(This sounds sketchy as hell)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/04/former-us-ambassador-arrested-florida-accused-of-serving-agent-of-cuba-source-says.html
Ex-US ambassador Victor Manuel Rocha charged over spying for Cuba
4th December 2023, 08:02 EST
A former US diplomat who served as ambassador to Bolivia has been charged withworking as an agent of the Cuban government for more than 40 years.Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, is accused of helping Cuba gather intelligence against the US since 1981. Mr Rocha referred to the US as "the enemy" and claimed his work as a secret agent "strengthened the Revolution", according to court papers.
It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
The former diplomat was arrested last Friday in Miami after an undercover sting operation that lasted more than a year, according to the US Department of Justice.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the case was "one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations" of the US government by a foreign agent.
"For over 40 years, Victor Manuel Rocha served as an agent of the Cuban government and sought out and obtained positions within the United States government that would provide him with access to non-public information and the ability to affect US foreign policy," Mr Garland said.
Born in Colombia, Mr Rocha was raised in New York City and obtained degrees from Yale, Harvard and Georgetown.He worked as US ambassador to Bolivia from 1999 to 2002, according to prosecutors, andserved in several government roles - including at the National Security Council - for 25 years. In addition to Bolivia, he has also served in postings in Argentina, Honduras, Mexico and the Dominican Republican. (No one suspected him over 40 years?)
The US and Cuba have had a fraught relationship since Fidel Castro overthrew a US-backed government over 60 years ago. The US imposed a trade embargo against Cuba in the 1960s. Former President Barack Obama and former Cuban President Raul Castro took steps to normalise relations in 2015, though former US President Donald Trump later reversed many of these actions.
Court documents unsealed on Monday allege that Mr Rocha made several trips to Cuba, where he helped to advance the interests of Cuban officials from 1981 to the present.The documents provide few detailson the information Mr Rocha allegedly shared, but outline the undercover FBI operation that led to his arrest.
In November 2022, an undercover FBI agent contacted Mr Rocha via WhatsApp, claiming to be a representative of Cuban Intelligence Services delivering a message from"your friends from Havana", the charging document stated. (WTF?)
Mr Rocha allegedly agreed to meet the agent several times, including once at a food court, because there was "no possibility for anyone to see me" there, he said, according to court documents.
During three meetings with the undercover FBI agent, Rocha began to divulge details about his time working as a secret agent for the Cuban government, the charging document alleged.
"I knew exactly how to do it and obviously the Dirección [Cuba's intelligence agency] accompanied me … lt's a long process and it wasn't easy," Mr Rocha allegedly told the FBI agent.
He repeatedly "described and celebrated his activity" working as an agent for Cuban intelligence services, prosecutors said.
Mr Rocha allegedly used the term "we" to describe Cuba and himself, and said he wanted to "protect … what we have done".
When the agent, posing as a Cuban spy, asked him "are you still with us?" Mr Rocha responded that he was "angry" to have his loyalty questioned.
"It's like questioning my manhood," he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67619011
It’s pretty bad, they are only hiring trans, gays, woke and creeps that hate America. Can you imagine going to war with that hodgepodge of freaks?
DOD has an 880 billion dollar budget, take it from all the tracking and censoring, propaganda systems they are running on the US.
I really hope there are still some patriots in the military, if not, then “the military is the only way”, is shit
Thx, I like the fairy tales…really
Everything is, it’s kinda depressing when you know it. Its gaining steam though because even normies are believing it. I was talking to a 21 year old and he said “you know everything us a psyop right?”
So he is CIA?
I’m convinced the New Age has to keep the hopes and dreams of people up, so they have gone to intergalactic Masters. Its ridiculous