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2025-02-25 WHO DECIDES THE FUTURE? Dire consequences of secretive biotech regulation: Response to Asilomar. From CBAN. Related to Ostriches and Health Canada (CFIA).

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Feb 252025

We are fast hitting a turning point.

Biotechnology is big at the University of Saskatchewan. Not only in the Dept of Agriculture.

The National Research Council (NRC) at the U of S also does biotechnology. https://www.canada.ca/en/government/dept.html

In 2007 at a meeting on-campus I spoke with a whipper snapper who was excited by his field of study. It was just so cool and fun what you can do in biotechnology! I have no words to challenge the hubris and ignorance.

2004 We are TIPPED OFF! SUPERB documentary re-done in English, Bertram Verhaag, Life Running Out of Control. No, I think it’s human beings running out of control.

The warning below from CBAN and groups from around the world is helpful. And then, on to “Related to Ostriches and Health Canada (CFIA)” in another posting. I try to make light, but without us, it looks pretty dark.

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Who Decides the Future?

Today, CBAN and groups from around the world are issuing a warning about the serious consequences of scientists determining the future of biotechnology and regulating their own research. Our warning comes as hundreds of scientist-entrepreneurs gather in California to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Asilomar conference. The concern underlying today’s Global Civil Society Statement is that, under the false guise of open discussion, this week’s “The Spirit of Asilomar and the Future of Biotechnology” conference will be used to give a green light to unfettered biotech research.

In the joint statement, groups are rejecting this closed-door event of screened participants, arguing that the meeting is geared towards those who stand to gain from biotechnology.

The outcome of the original Asilomar conference was a conclusion that scientists should guide the future of biotechnology. The conference 50 years ago was, largely, a meeting of molecular biologists, sparked by the possibility that their dangerous genetic research would trigger a demand for government regulation. The meeting was invitation-only and held behind closed doors, and it deliberately excluded broader ethical discussions and public participation. The conference reinforced the idea that scientists should be the primary arbiters of their own research boundaries and concluded that they could oversee their own research. The legacy of Asilomar is a dangerous system of self-regulation. Read more analysis and history from A Bigger Conversation.

Today’s statement of protest calls for true democratic control over biotechnology: “We are at a point in human history when technological developments, including genetic engineering, bioweapons, virological research, synthetic biology and other technologies, carry existential threats to health, the environment, the economy and human society. Questions about how to regulate, restrict, or prohibit, these technologies to reduce risk require broad-based, open, transparent and honest debate involving all sectors of society.”

The statement warns that “enormous harms can derive from biotechnology and these can arise by many routes, both directly and indirectly and from commercial products or laboratory experiments equally” and that, “irrespective of a technology’s specifics, whoever controls it inevitably determines whether good or ill ultimately results.”

The statement also says that, “biotechnologists have shown, for example through hostility to the precautionary principle, cultural unwillingness to study or learn from past mistakes.”

While the groups stress the need for public regulation of biotechnology, they argue that current regulation and regulatory culture is woefully inadequate to the task: “regulation of biotechnology should ultimately be by governments acting in the best interests of society as a whole and using the precautionary principle; but this requires the regulator to have: the necessary political authority, financial independence and clearly defined responsibilities. Regulators who become cheerleaders for a technology, as commonly happens, have lost their way.” Recent decisions by the Canadian government departments to remove government safety assessments for most gene-edited plants and foods provide a dangerous example that needs to be reversed.

Our statement ends with the warning that, if society does not regulate biotechnology, biotechnology is regulating society. Read the full statement here.

“Let us celebrate this 50th anniversary of Asilomar by relegating it to the past where it belongs and embracing the hard task of democratic renewal that lies before us.” – Prof Ben Hurlbut from the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and co-director of the Global Observatory on Genome Editing. Read more in his article in Science magazine, Taking responsibility: Asilomar and its legacy – A reappraisal of the constitutional position of science in American democracy is needed.

Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator

coordinator@cban.ca

www.cban.ca

The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) brings together 15 organizations to research, monitor and raise awareness about issues relating to genetic engineering in food and farming. CBAN members include farmer associations, environmental and social justice organizations, and regional coalitions of grassroots groups. CBAN is a project of MakeWay’s shared platform.

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2025-02-24 Watch: How Pesticides Destroyed a Small Town (Ethanol production & neonicotinoid pesticide waste spread over land)

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Feb 242025

Many industrial processes create toxic waste by-products. Getting rid of the toxic wastes can bankrupt the enterprise. Better to invent a new use. Re-brand and Spread the poison. The fluoride example.

Remember the controversial promotion of ethanol as an alternative fuel?

1. Watch: How Pesticides Destroyed a Small Town (short)

. . . the consequences of a system that failed them? Or . . . as Pogo says,

Incommunion We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us – Incommunion

Some things can’t be fixed after the fact, not in my lifetime. Not in the lifetime of the farmer in the video. Mobilizations in the U.S. are thankfully fighting hard to change the path we’re on. I hope we Canadians are fighting as hard with the Americans and People around the Earth who will make “better” happen.

The documentary is co-published with FERN (The Food and Environment Reporting Network).

“Farm to Fuel,” a short documentary exposes how neonicotinoid pesticides generated by an ethanol plant poisoned Mead, Nebraska’s soil, water and air — and how the town is still fighting for justice.

by The New Lede

February 24, 2025

runoff from chemicals with neonicotinoide sign on top

For decades, Mead, Nebraska, was a peaceful rural town — until toxins generated by the area ethanol plant poisoned Mead’s land, water and air.

“Farm to Fuel,” a short documentary, builds on investigative reporting by The New Lede, co-published with The Guardian, which exposed how the plant’s reckless disposal of pesticide-laced waste created an environmental disaster.

At the heart of the crisis are neonicotinoid pesticides, still widely used across the U.S. despite mounting evidence of their harm.

The New Lede’s Alex Hinton traveled to Mead, where he met with farmer Stan Keiser and his family, who shared their story of environmental devastation, previously reported by The New Lede.

Hinton spoke with Judy Wu-Smart, Ph.D., of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, whose groundbreaking research has been crucial in exposing the dangers of neonicotinoid pesticides, and former state Sen. Carol Blood, who has been leading the fight for stronger regulations to prevent tragedies like this from happening again.

Mead’s fight for justice is far from over. Despite the plant’s shutdown, its toxic legacy lingers, raising urgent questions about corporate negligence, environmental responsibility and the safety of rural communities across America.

Meanwhile, neonicotinoids continue to be used on millions of acres of farmland, seeping into ecosystems and threatening pollinators, wildlife and human health.

Today, the residents of Mead are still demanding answers, still seeking accountability and still living with the consequences of a system that failed them.

with the consequences of a system that failed them.

The documentary is co-published with FERN (The Food and Environment Reporting Network).

Originally published by The New Lede.

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2. State approved the use of pesticide-coated seed corn for ethanol plant a decade ago

(why am I posting this? . . . to remind ourselves how much we lose when we let things go. Gotta stay on top of what’s happening. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in North Dakota or across the border in Canada. )

Critics of slow cleanup at AltEn plant express surprise that it was called a ‘minor’ change

By: Paul Hammel – February 8, 2022

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2022/02/08/state-approved-use-of-pesticide-coated-seed-corn-for-ethanol-plant-a-decade-ago/

(“how did it happen?” – It should not have.)

2025-02-24 Utah Set to Become First State to End Water Fluoridation for All Residents, Brenda Baletti, CHD

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Feb 242025

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If Gov. Spencer Cox signs a bill passed late last week, the state will end community water fluoridation. The new law also will give pharmacists new authority to prescribe fluoride supplement pills.

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Utah lawmakers last week voted to pass the first U.S. statewide ban on adding fluoride to public water systems. The Utah Senate voted 18-8 in favor of the measure after it passed in the House.

If Gov. Spencer Cox signs the bill into law, it will end community water fluoridation. The new law also will give pharmacists new authority to prescribe fluoride supplement pills. Typically, such pills can be prescribed only by a dentist or physician.

Rep. Stephanie Gricius, who sponsored the bill, told The Defender she was thrilled the legislature voted to pass the bill. “Utah leads the nation in so many things and this is just one more example.”

Gricius emphasized that the law allows people to make their own decisions about whether and how to take supplemental fluoride.

“I am a firm believer that the proper role of government is to provide safe, clean drinking water, not medicate the public on a mass scale,” Gricius said. “Because I also believe in medical freedom, I wanted fluoride to remain available to anyone who wanted it for either themselves or their children — which is why we made the prescription easier to obtain through a pharmacy.”

The bill’s Senate sponsor, Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore, said during his presentation on the Senate floor that the bill is “about protecting our water, reducing unnecessary costs, and ensuring people have the right to decide what they consume.”

Rick North, board member of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), one of the plaintiffs who last year won a landmark lawsuit over water fluoridation against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said, “Utah’s fluoridation ban bill enjoyed wide support in both the House and Senate, reflecting both concerns over health risks and the firm opposition to adding any drug to drinking water, taking away people’s right to informed consent.”

North added, “If the governor signs the bill, it would be historic, and could be a catalyst for other states and cities doing the same.”

Opposition to water fluoridation has been growing across the country, particularly since a California federal judge ruled in the case brought by FAN, Mothers Against Fluoridation and others against the EPA that water fluoridation at current U.S. levels poses an “unreasonable risk” to children’s health and that the agency must regulate it.

Judge Edward Chen’s 80-page decision outlined the overwhelming scientific evidence that exposure to fluoride is linked to reduced IQ in children. The EPA recently announced it plans to appeal the ruling.

Chen’s ruling followed the publication in August of a key report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program (NTP) that concluded higher levels of fluoride exposure in drinking water are consistently linked to lower IQ in kids.

Other studies making similar findings have also been published in major scientific journals this year.

Fluoride a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production

Gricius started working on the issue last year after a resident approached her about “having individual choice when it comes to what prescriptions she and her children took.”

Local water conservancy districts also reached out to Cullimore to ask the state to ban water fluoridation citing claims of employee safety and the decision in the landmark case against the EPA, Gricius said.

Proponents of water fluoridation argue it protects children’s oral health. However, in October, an updated Cochrane Review concluded that adding fluoride to drinking water provides very limited, if any, dental benefits, especially compared with 50 years ago.

Proponents also underscore that fluoride is a naturally occurring chemical in water, earth and rocks. It can occur naturally in drinking water supplies, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions.

But most surface water contains very low levels of fluoride and roughly three-quarters of Americans have fluoride added to their drinking water. The fluoride added to water systems, typically in the form of fluorosilicic acid, is a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production — as documents from the fluoride lawsuit confirmed.

Cullimore also emphasized that many Utah citizens don’t want the chemical added to their water. “This bill does not prohibit anybody from taking fluoride in whatever fashion they want,” he said. It just disallows people who do not want fluoride from having to consume fluoride in their water.”

Cullimore’s district includes the city of Sandy, where a malfunctioning pump in the water fluoridation system released undiluted hydrofluorosilicic acid into the water in 2019, affecting 1,500 households, institutions and businesses and sickening over 200 people.

An investigation revealed that officials failed to notify the public for 10 days and that fluoride was detected in the drinking water at 40 times the recommended levels.

The 18-8 vote to pass the bill in the Republican-dominated Utah Senate on Friday was largely along party lines, with two Republican senators voting against it and one Democratic senator voting for it.

If signed, the bill is set to take effect on May 7. The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Cox plans to sign it.

‘We’re watching water fluoridation unravel globally in real time’

Since the September court ruling, many U.S. cities and towns have moved to pause or stop fluoridating their water, signaling that the long-term and largely unquestioned practice in the U.S. is facing heightened scrutiny by the public.

FAN Executive Director Stuart Cooper said the Utah vote is a marker of how significantly public opinion is shifting.

Cooper said:

“This is another significant victory for the public, who didn’t sign up to have a developmental neurotoxin and endocrine disruptor to their drinking water. The NIH-funded science showing neurotoxicity, the NTP report confirming that neurotoxicity and the federal ruling that fluoridation poses an unreasonable risk to human health have all pushed this topic over the tipping point. We’re watching water fluoridation unravel globally in real time.”

Cooper pointed out that 95% of the world and 98% of Europe do not fluoridate, and many countries passed resolutions banning the practice decades ago.

He said states and towns that continue to add fluoridation chemicals to the public water supply “are the extreme outliers and radicals in this situation.”

Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo in December advised governments across the state to stop adding fluoride to their water. Ladapo cited the neuropsychiatric risks — particularly for pregnant women and children — associated with the practice.

Lawmakers in at least three other states have also introduced legislation that would outlaw adding fluoride to community water systems, and four other states are considering bills to make fluoride optional or limit its concentration.

In addition to Utah, lawmakers in North Dakota, New Hampshire and Tennessee are seeking a ban on the practice. Bills in Arkansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and South Dakota would either repeal statewide fluoridation programs or set limits on the amount of fluoride added to water, Bloomberg Law reported.

Last week, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller also called on Gov. Greg Abbott and the state lawmakers to institute a statewide ban on water fluoridation.

Hawaii is the only state that does not offer water fluoridation for most residents. However, the military bases there are mandated by the federal government to fluoridate their water.

Bucking national trends, Democratic senators in Connecticut are introducing legislation to make the current levels of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter, recommended by the public health agencies, state law. They are drafting a bill, Senate Bill No. 7, that would continue water fluoridation at current levels in the state even if federal policy were to change.

The state senate democratic webpage reports they are drafting the bill out of concerns that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., recently confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services, suggested on social media that the Trump administration would advise all American water systems to remove it from drinking water.

Related stories in The Defender

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., is a senior reporter for The Defender. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s from the University of Texas at Austin.

2025-02-19 Latest Measles Outbreaks a Result of Failed Vaccines — Not Failure to Vaccinate. By Sayer Ji, on CHD

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Feb 202025

As measles outbreaks continue to surface, the mainstream media is pointing the blame at HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “anti-vaccine rhetoric.” But measles outbreaks have repeatedly occurred in communities exceeding 95% vaccine coverage, proving the vaccine itself does not provide durable immunity.

by Sayer Ji

measles on a person's back in the shape of the US map and bottle of MMR vaccine

As measles outbreaks continue to surface, the mainstream media is now using them as a political weapon, attempting to blame our new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for so-called “anti-vaccine rhetoric.”

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an opinion piece insinuating that his advocacy for vaccine safety is responsible for rising measles cases.

This narrative is not only baseless but ignores decades of documented measles vaccine failures — failures that have occurred in highly vaccinated populations all over the world.

Read the CNN article here.

The real issue is not a failure to vaccinate but a failing vaccine. As this article will demonstrate, measles outbreaks have repeatedly occurred in communities with exceeding 95% vaccine coverage, proving that the vaccine itself does not provide durable immunity.

The ongoing effort to scapegoat RFK Jr. is simply a distraction from the deeper scientific and historical evidence that challenges the mainstream vaccine narrative.

A long history of measles vaccine failures

For over 25 years, outbreaks have been reported in populations with vaccination rates exceeding 95%, undermining the mainstream assumption that vaccines are the singular solution to measles control. Here is a documented historical record of such vaccine failures:

1985, Texas, U.S.: A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1987 analyzed a measles outbreak in Corpus Christi, Texas, where 99% of students were vaccinated and more than 95% were immune. The researchers concluded: “Outbreaks of measles can occur in secondary schools, even when more than 99 percent of the students have been vaccinated and more than 95 percent are immune.”
1985, Montana, U.S.: An article in the American Journal of Epidemiology examined an outbreak of 137 measles cases in Montana, despite a 98.7% vaccination rate. The researchers stated: “This outbreak suggests that measles transmission may persist in some settings despite appropriate implementation of the current measles elimination strategy.”
1988, Colorado, U.S.: A measles outbreak at a Colorado college infected 84 students, even though over 98% had documented immunity due to strict vaccination policies. Researchers concluded that “measles outbreaks can occur among highly vaccinated college populations.”
1989, Quebec, Canada: Initially blamed on low vaccine coverage, a study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health concluded: “Incomplete vaccination coverage is not a valid explanation for the Quebec City measles outbreak.”
1991-1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A study published in the Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical found that 76.4% of measles cases in this outbreak had been vaccinated before their first birthday.
1992, Cape Town, South Africa: A study in the South African Medical Journal documented an outbreak where 91% of children were vaccinated, and vaccine efficacy was only 79%. The researchers concluded that primary and secondary vaccine failure contributed to the outbreak.

These are just a handful of examples from an extensive body of literature documenting measles outbreaks occurring in highly vaccinated populations — clear evidence that vaccine-induced immunity is neither lifelong nor consistently effective.

Ignoring history won’t make vaccine failures disappear

Public health officials continue to ignore these well-documented failures while insisting that stricter vaccine mandates are the only way to prevent measles. However, history shows that vaccination does not equal immunization.

The widespread belief that vaccines alone can eliminate measles is more faith-based than evidence-based, as seen in the knee-jerk blame placed on the unvaccinated whenever outbreaks occur.

Ironically, those who highlight peer-reviewed evidence of vaccine failures are dismissed as “anti-vaccine,” even though they are merely pro-truth and pro-vaccine awareness.

The global health agenda, led by organizations such as UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, continues to push mass vaccination campaigns while ignoring the real issues: poor sanitation, malnutrition and compromised immune health.

The media’s attempt to pin measles outbreaks on RFK Jr. is not based on science but on political opportunism. RFK Jr. has consistently advocated for vaccine safety and medical choice — principles that are far from “anti-vaccine.”

If anything, his warnings about vaccine-induced injuries and failures are validated by the very outbreaks being reported today.

Measles: A disease with real risks — and real benefits

Measles is a real disease, and while it can have serious complications, it is largely determined by an individual’s immune status. Before widespread vaccination campaigns, measles was a common childhood illness that conferred lifelong immunity.

Now, due to waning vaccine-induced immunity, adults — who are at higher risk for complications — are increasingly affected by outbreaks.

However, what mainstream medicine rarely acknowledges is that measles is not just a disease to be feared — it also has long-documented health benefits.

Emerging research shows that natural measles infection plays a critical role in immune system development and may help protect against chronic diseases, certain cancers and autoimmune disorders.

Additionally, while the measles vaccine is heavily promoted as safe, a growing body of evidence reveals dozens of serious adverse events associated with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.

According to adverse event data compiled on GreenMedInfo, these include:

Encephalitis (brain inflammation)
Seizures and febrile convulsions
Autoimmune disorders such as Guillain-Barré syndrome
Chronic arthritis and joint pain
Thrombocytopenia (low platelet count leading to bleeding disorders)
Anaphylactic shock and severe allergic reactions
Increased risk of Type 1 diabetes

These well-documented risks raise critical questions about the one-size-fits-all vaccination policy being enforced through mandates.

The notion that every child must be vaccinated without consideration for individual risk factors ignores the reality that vaccines — like any medical intervention — carry risks that must be weighed against their benefits.

Instead of blindly pursuing a strategy of endless boosters and mandates, public health should take an honest, science-based approach that considers both the risks and benefits of natural measles infection.

Learn about the underreported downside of vaccination

If history teaches us anything, it is that the measles vaccine alone is not the solution. To explore the scientific literature on the unintended, adverse effects of vaccinations, visit our Vaccine Research Database.

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Originally published on Sayer Ji’s Substack page.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.

Sayer Ji

Sayer Ji is an author, activist, speaker, and widely recognized thought leader in the natural health and wellness space.

2025-02-18 USDA Has Spent $1.25 Billion on Mass Culling for H5N1 Bird Flu – With Disastrous Consequences

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USDA Has Spent $1.25 Billion on Mass Culling for H5N1 Bird Flu—With Disastrous Consequences

The failed biosecurity strategy has driven egg prices to a 45-year high while wasting billions in taxpayer funds on indemnity payments.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Feb 18

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by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

According to a recent USDA document titled, Payment of Indemnity and Compensation for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza:

As of November 2024, the costs associated with the ongoing [H5N1] outbreak have exceeded $1.4 billion, including $1.25 billion in indemnity and compensation payments. Of this, APHIS has spent approximately $227 million on indemnity payments to premises that have been infected multiple times with HPAI.

The strikingly large sum of indemnity payments not only incentivizes farmers to comply with state-run mass killing of their animals but also represents a serious misuse of taxpayer money, as mass culling triggers a cascade of severe downstream consequences. Here are four key reasons why the mass culling of poultry for H5N1 bird flu must end immediately:

Mass Culling Has Failed

Despite routinely killing the entire flock over an H5N1 bird flu PCR detection (41.4 million domesticated birds were culled in December 2024 and January 2025 alone), H5N1 continues to widely propagate among poultry:

Mass Culling Causes Egg Prices to Skyrocket

The monthly average price of a dozen large Grade A eggs hit a 45-year high in January 2025, making food less affordable for millions.

Mass Culling Results in Chicken-to-Human Transmission

According to a recent study by Garg et al, 100% of poultry-linked human H5N1 cases have been traced to reckless mass depopulation efforts:

Mass Culling is Not Necessary

Three studies demonstrate that a substantial number of chickens survive H5N1 infection and will thus obtain natural immunity against the virus, helping to limit future spread:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control et al:

Pantin-Jackwood et al:

Kayali et al:

This was outlined in the McCullough Foundation production, Bird Flu: Separating Fact from Fiction and True Danger from Fear-mongering.

Current biosecurity strategies aimed at ‘eradicating’ bird flu are clearly failing, as mallard ducks continually reinfect farms with the mild H5N1 virus. The USDA must disclose the real-time RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) values used for H5N1 detection, end the unnecessary culling of healthy birds, and allow natural immunity to develop.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation

www.mcculloughfnd.org

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2025-02-17 The Mother of All Frauds?

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Feb 182025

I needed this written account – – thanks.

I have been hearing it in passing, in video. Along with other stuff.

I think, for a number of reasons, that it’s true.

From: “John Leake from FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse)” <petermcculloughmd@substack.com>
Date: February 17, 2025 Subject: The Mother of All Frauds?

If confirmed, these govt stats reveal enormous fraud. …….

Social Security database contains millions of apparent recipients over the age of 110. Are payments really being sent out to these people? ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

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The Mother of All Frauds?

Social Security database contains millions of apparent recipients over the age of 110. Are payments really being sent out to these people?

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Feb 17

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This morning I read a story posted by Jeff Childers on his marvelous Coffee & Covid 2025 Substack that I am struggling to interpret. On the one hand, the story is so stupendously preposterous that I find it extremely hard to believe. On the other hand, I suppose that at this point, no story about U.S. government insanity, no matter how outlandish, should be dismissed out of hand.

Indeed, in recent years, the U.S. government’s conduct has reminded me of a friend on Cape Cod in the early nineties who owned a Cigarette Boat called the TOTAL INSANITY. He boasted that the Total Insanity could traverse the 29 miles between Hyannis and Nantucket in less than 20 minutes.

After hearing this boast several time, I asked him to show me. A minute after embarking from Hyannis, I profoundly regretted my request. The boat’s ramping off of every swell in Nantucket Sound felt like being repeatedly picked up and dropped 30 feet in an elevator shaft, and I soon doubted that I would survive the ferocious and relentless pounding with my spine and organs intact. Truly this was TOTAL INSANITY. Over the deafening roar of the 1000 horsepower engine, I yelled at the sadomasochistic lunatic pilot to slow down and take me back to Hyannis at once.

Can the following tale of total insanity—told by Jeff Childers—possibly be true?

A full decade ago in 2015, the Social Security Administration’s Inspector General reported that 6.5 million active Social Security numbers were assigned to people aged 112 or older, despite there being only 35 such individuals known to be living worldwide. (Robert Kennedy should be happy to hear about this.) That was alarming enough, but in 2023, an expanded audit looked at SSNs aged 100 and up. This time, 18.9 million active SSNs with birthdates of 1920 or earlier lacked a date of death, meaning they are still active.

But last year (2024), PEW Research reported there are only 80,000 living Americans aged 100+, leaving a shocking discrepancy of 18.8 million mysterious perennial people still receiving social security and possibly disability as well, not to mention generous credits from phantom tax returns, and of course, blue state and local benefits.

And of course, these immortal individuals are probably also voting. Voting Democrat.

The IG’s 2023 follow-up report detailed all the Agency’s terrific progress in resolving the problems identified since the earlier 2015 report. In short, the Social Security Administration’s diligent, alert, and apolitical permanent career civil servants grabbed hold of the IG’s 2015 report with both hands and shoved it into the basement furnace.

I, for one, thank the gods of bureaucrats for all the hardworking, non-biased, non-partisan federal workers in the Social Security Administration who concluded, probably right after their 3-mimosa-lunch (held by Zoom), that it was just too hard and too expensive to stop 18.9 million fraudulent social security records by putting a presumed date of death into the date field. It’s no use.

It’s not like it might have made any difference in the 2020 election or anything.

🔥 I’m sure this will (not) shock you. Both times, 2015 and 2023, the media ignored or downplayed the story. A sane person living in pre-Millennial America might assume that the tireless watchdog media, upon learning about the vast numbers of impossibly fake Social Security accounts and the trillions of dollars of attendant waste and fraud would never give the government a moment’s peace until it was fixed.

But no.

We are not surprised. We are scarred veterans of the post-Millennial period, and we understand the media’s main job is not to expose, but to cover up government incompetence — and especially bury any news at all that might fuel legitimate concerns about election integrity.

Not to mention upholding corporate media’s timeless narrative chestnut that entitlement fraud is rare and overhyped and only a right-wing conspiracy theory. That narrative, after all, is as timeless as the millions of zombified centenarian recipients.

In 2015, apart from one-offs in some conservative media (Breitbart, Washington Times, Fox), I could only find a single AP story about the 6.5 million fraudulent Social Security records aged 112+. In 2023, after the SSA’s OIG published its report finding 19 million digitally breathing people over 100 still “alive” in the system, once again, there was mostly media silence. It should have been a five-alarm fire, but only a handful of “far-right” sites mentioned the news (Federalist, Washington Examiner). The usually reliable New York Post only briefly mentioned the OIG report, but even that was buried in a bigger article about government waste generally.

But CNN, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the other major outlets? Crickets. My searches came up empty. It just wasn’t important enough to report.

In the latest electrifying development that will also probably not shock you, DOGE —for the last week slogging through the SSA’s septic systems of archaic paper and antique Cobol software — is beginning to report that the OIG canaries in the SSA mineshaft were, if anything, woefully underreporting the problem.

🔥 Yesterday, apparent DOGE mouthpiece Elon Musk posted a simple database count of active Social Security Numbers by age range. The dumbfounding chart was a political hydrogen bomb, and it speaks for itself:

Apparently, we’ve been operating on the honor system this whole time. We normal, non-civil-service Americans were the only ones who didn’t know. It’s just the latest reason they sneer at us and think we’re stupid and gullible. Those neanderthal conservatives will believe anything. They’re right. We’re the biggest suckers in human history.

I added up the numbers for our cherished, specially abled readers in Portland. Based on Elon’s chart, the total count of active SSNs is 398 million. That means there are +64 million more active SSNs than the entire population of the United States (334 million).

Let me say it again: sixty-four million zombies. Needless to say, it’s totally impossible, at least under our current scientific understanding of human mortality. The diligent, hardworking, apolitical employees in the federal government appear to have diligently preserved a shadow army of dead or nonexistent “Americans” on the books — zombies — with tens of millions of them potentially still receiving benefits, filing tax returns, and “voting” Democrat.

This appears to be a scandal of unfathomable, indescribable, revolutionary proportions. Since I have a very strong feeling that we will not be receiving tax refunds for our cataclysmically misspent entitlements lavished on millions of career criminals, including those inside the government, I say burn it all down.

There is no fixing this. There is no audit big enough. There is no reform package meaningful enough. It is a soul-crushing abomination. It boils the blood. It is enraging beyond explanation. Just napalm the whole Kafkaesque apparatus and start over from scratch.

This scandal will be the Deep State’s Waterloo.

Thank you Jeff for researching and writing this marvelous piece. To me it raises many questions:

1). Is the Social Security administration really issuing checks to all of these people?

2). Could it somehow be that millions of names remain in the database, but are nevertheless NOT issued payments?

3). If payments are being sent to these certainly dead people, who are the living people who are receiving the payments?

4). How can all of the above be verified?

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2025-02-16 Words that reach the heart from Tamara Lich to Canadians. Beside the ‘Powerful’ Mark Carney and the CFIA Operation Chief Command Officer – – Kill the ostriches! THE TRAGEDY & THE COMEDY.

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Feb 172025

it’s hours later – 3AM. In the midst of the furor world.

Mike Benz is downloading 8 years of investigations from his head to Joe Rogan. All the corruption.

Thoughts are sorting themselves out. And then Laughter bubbles up.

Set the stage

Tamara Lich @LichTamara

After my arrest Feb 17, 2022 I was put into solitary confinement at the detention center. I called it the dungeon as that’s exactly what it looked and felt like. It was a few days before I was given a pencil or paper. I passed my time praying, working out, meditating and spent two full days cleaning some awful graffiti off the walls in my cell and bunk. I figured if I was going to be there for awhile I needed to make it my own space. Once that was completed I took my little pencil and wrote out the lyrics to O Canada and drew the Canadian Flag beside it on the inside of my bunk so that every morning when I opened my eyes it was the first thing I saw.

It was a reminder of why I was there and what we were fighting for.

Every single day was worth it.

Now, if only the Sillies could see themselves!

a. Mark Carney’s words on the topic of Power. 2025-02-17 Mark Carney, hopeful to be prime minister. All the Power he sees. Sedition.

what MY Government is going to do is use ALL the powers of the Federal Government . . . (Sedition . . .)

And

b. To the ostriches and the mother-daughter farmer ladies: 2025-01-31 The cull (400 ostriches) is to proceed (Kelowna area farm). Pandemonium. As directed by Cortnie Fotheringham – CFIA (get a load of her title) Operation Chief Command Officer is the POWERFUL one who directs 400 birds whoo hoo – – -“TO THE GUILLOTINE!! “

Sorry, I can’t stop laughing! Those ladies and ostrich supporters are a determined lot. With nonsensical covid mandates in recent memory, ALSO from Health Canada. Can you imagine 400 ostriches being chased around the pasture by a gaggle of CFIAers wielding axes? Or maybe it’ll be ostriches chasing CFIAers? I want to see the video so I can laugh some more! Swans have large wings that can take you out – – OSTRICHES are a couple leagues above swans!

Health Canada. Some of these people . . . I don’t think they are immune to the house-cleaning that is happening in the U.S. ?? We’ve been fighting them for a couple decades at least. It would be so sweet if they would just do their job. They might not remember what that is!

/ Sandra.

Words that reach the heart from Tamara Lich to Canadians:

Sent: February 16, 2025
To: Sandra Finley

PS again, just wanted to share this post by Tamara. It went so much deeper than the ‘fake’ patriotism that seems to be the new ‘thing’.

https://x.com/LichTamara/status/1890785042709753906

2025-02-17 Mark Carney, hopeful to be prime minister. All the Power he sees. Sedition.

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Feb 172025

Mark Carney in Kelowna, B.C. Feb 13th. Running for the leadership of the Federal Liberals.

Excerpt from short video clip, Carney addressing Liberal gathering. I transcribed:

Something that MY Government is going to do is use ALL the powers of the Federal Government, including the EMERGENCY POWERS of the Federal Government, to accelerate the major products that we need . . .

The next entry on the X thread: a Globe & Mail ad, Carney and “sedition”. I don’t know from where it came. (Disclosure: I’ve been keeping loose track of Carney since he went from Wall Street (Goldman Sachs, etc) to Governor of Bank of Canada, thence to Gov Bank of England, to WEF, back to Canada and now being insinuated into position of Prime Minister of Canada.)

Carney has a frustrated desire. He wants (the same as was wanted, and is still wanted, under Covid): “People OBEY!”

Under Carney’s Government with all its POWER there will be ONE narrative and only one. The Powers of the Federal Govt will see to that. (it’s the Globalist, the WEF position, the Federal Liberal position, Premier David Eby of B.C.’s position (legislation known as HPOA), etc – it is the position of all of them and more – – the Globalists. Klaus Schwab.).

The covid narrative was launched fast. With confusion. You don’t know the long arc of what’s happened until it’s all over. Or, as it’s happening, and in hindsight.

SEDITION – – what’s that about?

The word “sedition” is seldom used in the streets, in Canada. I looked it up to see if it’s an American word? (it’s not). Sedition (origins in Latin): conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. . . . or

Sedition is a term from law, which is used for people who act and speak openly against the government and those in power, to cause an uprising or a rebellion. In many countries, such behaviour is a criminal offence. (Yes, in Canada. Jail time up to 14 years if you are guilty.).

PLAUSIBLE SCENARIO?

I think it IS plausible; plausible enough that we should discuss it. If it never happens, great!

Mark Carney is a Globalist. He wants to be the Prime Minister of Canada. He told us in the video clip: the Federal Govt has the Powers it needs to do what it needs to do.

They de-briefed after the Freedom Convoy in 2022; how could they have done better than they did (Covid)? The option of CHANGING their Agenda? doesn’t exist.

If the plebeians complain openly under Mark Carney’s Government >>> it will trigger arrest, the charge is sedition (huh? The plebes won’t know what hit them), fast trial and into jail they go. The judges will uphold the Government narrative.

These are Carney’s maniacal words: Something that MY Government is going to do is use ALL the powers of the Federal Government, including the EMERGENCY POWERS of the Federal Government . . .

I pasted together more (below) about sedition.

And I wondered what’s the difference? . . . sedition versus Invocation of the Emergency Act? , , , I think that Invocation of the Emergencies Act carries with it a Requirement of the Government to hold an Inquiry within a limited amount of time after . . . I’m thinking that the Govt would prefer NOT TO. Would charges of Sedition be a lot less messy?

Please peer into Mark Carney’s brain. Not that I think he will get elected by Canadians – – it is prudent to be wary of the delusions created by money and power.

– – – – – – – –

Sedition

Vocabulary.com

https://www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › sedition

Is sedition illegal in the US?

Has anyone been executed for treason in the US?

Of the 40 treason cases charged since the founding of the U.S., only 13 resulted in a conviction, and only three people have been executed for it. Since 1956, only one person indicted for treason—Adam Gadahn, in 2006, executed for making propaganda videos for al-Qaeda.

Sedition is the illegal act of inciting people to resist or rebel against the government in power. It’s what the southern states did at the start of the Civil War. Sedition is the rebellious talk and encouragement that might lead to a mutiny, and can be charged as a crime, like treason.

Is treason a sedition?

Treason is a serious crime in the United States that carries equally serious consequences, up to and including the death penalty. Sedition and subversive activities, while generally less serious than treason, still carry harsh penalties, including hefty fines and prison time.

I see on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition “View History” – – continuous and many changes to the material. Every year, going back through the covid years. A LOT of History – – a lot of activity related to wiki info on Sedition.

There is but one example of the charge of Sedition in Canada (PQ): Camillien Houde, jailed for 4 years. Upon release (1944): cheering crowd of 50,000 Montrealers, . . . won back his job as Montreal mayor in 1944’s civic election

HELP TRANSFORM THE MARK CARNEY INFORMATION INTO ACTION (Pre-emptive): but not today! Personally I can start by developing what I think is in the works. So Canadians can be alerted and prepared.

DRAFT – – this is just a starting point:

Sedition Legislation Criminal Law. Date of the 1^st Act in Canada: 1918

In context of: Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to assemble, Freedom to Peaceful Protest, . . .

And in Context of Inquiry into Invocation of Emergency Act

Canada has used the Sedition legislation ONCE (to be confirmed) and in Quebec.

2025-02-14 Vaccines Breaking: Trump to Strip Federal Funding From Schools That Mandate COVID Vaccines. Brenda Baletti, CHD

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Feb 152025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to defund schools, universities and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. The order directs HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the secretary of Education to create a plan to end the mandates.

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

covid vaccines and stack of books and graduation cap

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order to defund schools, universities and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff.

The order directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the secretary of Education to create a plan to end the mandates and to end federal funding for institutions that don’t comply with their plan, The Hill reported.

During his campaign, Trump said he would end school COVID-19 vaccine mandates, many of which were enacted during his first presidential term.

“I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate.”

Breitbart broke the news Friday afternoon that the order was forthcoming.

“This is such welcome news!” said Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland. “So many students throughout the country have been forced out of their educational programs because of coercive COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and so many more have been injured or have died as a result of coercive medicine.”

“It is wonderful to see the President restoring the cornerstone of medical ethics — informed consent — to U.S. educational institutions.”

Lucia Sinatra, co-founder of No College Mandates which has been fighting to end college mandates since the booster mandates were rolled out in 2021, told The Defender that she and her organization “couldn’t be more thrilled.”

“I think this is another perfect example of promises made, promises kept,” she said. “It is long overdue because college students are still subject to these mandates as a condition of enrollment.”

Fifteen colleges or universities still mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for all or some portion of students, according to the organization.

It is unclear whether the order would affect any grade schools. “The nonprofit Immunize.org said as of May 2024, no state required COVID-19 vaccines for any grade level K-12,” Fox News reported. was permanently and seriously disabled by the vaccine, which he took in order to attend college.

The Hill noted that the vaccines were developed under the Trump administration, and he initially celebrated them. Yet Trump has also been publicly critical of the shots.

The Trump administration already signed an executive order to reinstate service members who were discharged under the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. The U.S. Department of Defense plans to invite those service members back at the same rank they previously held.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Trump also ended the Biden administration requirement that green card applicants show proof of vaccination, according to Breitbart.

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2025-02-13 Covid: Breaking News: U.S. Senate Votes to Confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary. Brenda Baletti, CHD

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Feb 132025

With thanks to CHD:

The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary. Kennedy, founder and former chairman of Children’s Health Defense, has vowed to end the epidemic of chronic disease in children.

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. February 13, 2025

The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., founder and former chairman of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.

At press time, the vote was 51-48, largely along party lines, with almost every Republican supporting Kennedy’s nomination and all Democrats and independents opposing it.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the former longtime GOP leader, was the only Republican who joined the “no” votes.

CHD CEO Mary Holland said:

“Children’s Health Defense is thrilled that our founder Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It has been a long, tough and ultimately successful road.

“Bobby richly deserves this honor, and CHD is confident that he will make great strides toward the goals he has set for HHS: radical transparency, gold-standard science and making America healthy again.

“We look forward to reporting on HHS activity and advancing HHS objectives where appropriate. CHD will continue to focus on our piece of the American health puzzle: ending the epidemic of chronic childhood disease.”

As HHS secretary, Kennedy will oversee the largest budget — $1.8 trillion for fiscal year 2025 — of any federal agency.

HHS oversees 13 public health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The agency, which employs 90,000, is also the largest federal grantmaker.

HHS also manages federally funded health insurance coverage and regulates private insurance. The agency sets policy for public health and disease control; coordinates emergency preparedness and response for natural disasters, health crises and other events; and oversees food and drug safety.

Kennedy suspended his own presidential campaign in August 2024 and agreed to join forces with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to focus on “existential issues” for the American people, including ending the childhood chronic disease epidemic.

Some commentators speculated that Kennedy’s support was likely decisive in Trump’s win. After Trump won the presidential election in November 2024, he tapped Kennedy to lead HHS.

Since then, Kennedy has been one of Trump’s most contentious cabinet nominations, largely because of his positions on vaccine safety, his assertions that the public health agencies — and lead figures like Dr. Anthony Fauci — are captured by industry, and his public criticism of the COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

Kennedy has been heavily censored on social media and relentlessly smeared in the mainstream media, and even by senators.

Before this morning’s vote, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer addressed the Senate, saying, “I’m very proud that every single Democrat will oppose Mr. Kennedy’s nomination because Democrats know better than to elevate a conspiracy theorist to the top healthcare job in the country.”

He implored Republican senators to vote against him.

Kennedy’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Jan. 29 lasted nearly four hours as Democratic senators grilled the lifelong Democrat on his “anti-vaccine” views, legal fees earned by suing drugmakers like Merck for injuries caused by their products, and whether he supported CHD’s sales of onesies imprinted with slogans like “UNVAXXED UNAFRAID.”

Kennedy denied he was anti-vaccine, insisting he was merely pro-safety and wanted to draw attention to the potential risks of vaccines. He focused his message to the committee on his plans to address the chronic disease epidemic — the central mandate of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement that backed his nomination.

He cited statistics showing sharp increases in cancer, diabetes, neurodevelopmental disorders, autoimmune diseases and other conditions since the 1960s. He said more than half of Americans today are chronically ill, calling this a “human tragedy” that is “writing off an entire generation of kids.”

Kennedy pledged to support healthy foods and the removal of harmful additives from the food supply. He also promised to rid HHS of the financial conflicts of interest that lead to compromised science and to restore research at HHS to “honest, unbiased, gold-standard science,” particularly related to vaccines.

Before the Finance Committee voted to advance Kennedy’s nomination, he won the essential support of Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a doctor who had expressed concerns about some of Kennedy’s positions on vaccines.

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Cassidy supported the nomination after he said Kennedy committed to meet or speak with him multiple times monthly, and to include Cassidy in the HHS hiring process.

Cassidy also said Kennedy agreed to maintain statements on the CDC website that vaccines do not cause autism and to maintain the recommendations of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

As secretary, Kennedy will also work closely with the heads of HHS agencies. Trump in November nominated Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., professor of health policy at Stanford’s School of Medicine and vocal critic of COVID-19 lockdowns, to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Martin “Marty” Makary, a pancreatic surgeon at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is Trump’s pick to run the FDA. Makary has been broadly supportive of the childhood vaccine schedule, but has questioned the benefits of certain shots, like the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. He has also criticized vaccine mandates.

Dr. David Weldon, Trump’s pick to lead the CDC, served seven terms in Congress before returning to his Florida practice. He has spoken out about the use of thimerosal — an aluminum adjuvant — in vaccines, citing its link to autism.

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Breaking: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmed as HHS Secretary

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By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., founder and former chairman of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.

At press time, the vote was 51-48, largely along party lines, with almost every Republican supporting Kennedy’s nomination and all Democrats and independents opposing it.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the former longtime GOP leader, was the only Republican to vote “no.”

CHD CEO Mary Holland said:

“Children’s Health Defense is thrilled that our founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It has been a long, tough and ultimately successful road.

As HHS secretary, Kennedy will oversee the largest budget — $1.8 trillion for fiscal year 2025 — of any federal agency.

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