Newsletter, 11/27/24
Holiday wishes, Biomedical, 4IR
[After a two months separation, a father hugs his daughter in Tyre, Lebanon following a cease fire agreement between Israel and Hezbolla, Image by Adnan Abidi, Reuters, via Al Jazeera]
Starting by wishing you all an enjoyable holiday weekend if you live in the US. Unless there is a major development, i will be off till Monday, 12/2/24. I can be thankful for being healthy and indeed alive, as a drunk driver drove his far into our building, damaging my next door neighbor’s front entrance area. He tried driving off, but was confronted by my neighbors and i, though it was almost 2AM (Tuesday morning), My neighbor is displaced while her place is being fixed, needs a new front door and adjacent bedroom wall. My bed’s head is by a window some 20 ft from where the car impacted. Thankful for being physically OK, but shaken up.
Biomedical. Dr Sam Bailey has really good news,as she and her husband Dr Mark Bailey are participating in a book project being put together by famous human rights advocate Vera Sharav, a Holocaust survivor and an alumnus of my alma mater CCNY.
Dr Sam Bailey, 11/25/24 (late), 19 minutes embedded video. First of several episodes on this topic.
In mid-2024, the legendary Vera Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection sent a request. She asked if my husband Mark and I would write an essay concerning the perversion of science for her companion book to the documentary “Never Again is Now Global”.
The task for our chapter was to “unmask the viral paradigm” and bid A Farewell to Virology in non-technical language, while still citing scientific reports. We were more than happy to do so given that we have spent the last five years dismantling all aspects of the COVID-19 Fraud and the wider fraud of germ theory. Our essay provides the overview of how the “pandemic” was staged and in some ways is a summary of part of our latest book, The Final Pandemic.
We have been advised that the manuscript for the new book has 25 chapters penned by 21 contributors. While the book is not yet available, Vera gave her blessing for us to produce an advance video version of our chapter in order to reach as many people as possible. We are pleased to present the essay here for the first time in the public domain…
Show notes and related videos HERE [Link]
Two of the notes are crucial. These reference separate repots by two major world public health entities which basically explicitly states that the only way to distinguish the condition known as “COVID-19” is with a test like the PCR or the rapid antigen tests. When i was in Walgreen’s on Monday i noted several shelves of “COVID-19 tests” right by the checkout stands.
• Struyf, T., et al., “Signs and symptoms to determine if a patient presenting in primary care or hospital outpatient settings has COVID‐19 disease,” Cochrane Library, 7 Jul 2020
• “WHO COVID-19: Case Definitions,” WHO, 7 Aug 2020
My comment at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times, 11/27/24.
Immense thanks, Dr Sam Bailey. Glad to see Vera Sharav boarding the truth train.
"The test defines a case, and a case is defined by a .. positive test." This "logic" wouldn't even get an F on a classroom test, the student would be counseled to drop out of any science filed. And yet this "logic" ruled the world. And continues to do so, for the most part. Last several days i had people on FB get upset with me for pointing out this stuff. One insisted that she and friends got sick, how dare i say there's no proof of the virus. And then stated that "science cannot prove the existence of a bio-weapon" yet wanted us to believe one exists because she was one of its victims. And she is .. a member of the "health freedom truth movement.”
And, a quick followup on the Trump appointment of vaccine information censorship advocate Dr Janette Nesheiwat to by Surgeon General, the top medical official in the US government. :NEPOTISM in the SG pick Nesheiwat family with Waltz married to her sister in homeland security office.
And, Trump picked Great Barrington Statement co-author Jay Bhattachariya to head the National Institute of health. Many in the “ freedom” community are casting this as a win. Here is what Alison McDowell had to say about the Statement four years ago. Still rings true.
Posted on 10/23/20. Here.
I realize Kulldorff, Bhattacharya, and Gupta have been giving interviews for months. For the purposes of this piece, however, I’m asking folks to humor me and set aside things they have heard or read from the primary signers on issues relating to lockdowns, testing, masks, etc. Please concentrate on what is actually laid out in these 518 words. They were carefully chosen, and that’s what they’ve asked people to sign on to.
Here’s the link.[To the Statement]
If you were to sign, these items are among the things you’d be agreeing to:
• We did in fact experience a legitimate global health emergency.
• Using PCR as a diagnostic test for Covid is valid.
• We should seek to constrain targeted groups of healthy people – focused protection.
• It is acceptable to socially isolate elders, including from family members.
• Advancing the current childhood vaccination program is a priority.
These are crucial topics I think should have been discussed, but were left out.
• Tech-based contract tracing undermines civil liberties.
• Biometric health passports used to control population mobility and access to work and education are repressive.
• Vaccine mandates should be opposed.
• Population level bioengineering using mRNA vaccine platforms and biosensors should be opposed.
• Investigations should be made into corrupt public health contracts.
• Mask wearing by healthy individuals damages health and mental health.
• Asymptomatic transmission is rare. [She still believed transmission was a proven thing, a given, at that point]
• The Covid Reset shift to telemedicine has been harmful.
I also have reservations about the term “focused protection,” which feels strangely vague and specific. When I looked into the use of that term in a medical context, several references came up around childhood pneumonia vaccines. Focused protection could mean anyone, and it feels likely a future health event will target children. What would isolation from family members, which was advanced by Gupta for elders for up to three months, look like if “focused protection” targets were children?
4IR. A new situation has arisen in SW Asia over the last 24 hours because of a ceasefire agreement between the state/business entities called Israel and Lebanon, including the Hezbollah militia. US, Israel and western media are portraying this agreement as a win for the US/France/Israel, due to Israel’s being granted the right to enforce this agreement and the decoupling from Gaza. BRICS-favoring media are trying to spin it as a conditional Hezbollah victory because it has survived, but putting forth a major qualification in that the organization has agreed to decouple its war with “Israel” from the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Here are two accounts by such media. There is a third view from such media, Al Arabiya being one (the Saudi state/business entity’s official media outlet), that Iran pressured Hezbollah to agree to this arrangement out of of fear that the Israeli entity was threatening the survival of the organization as a functioning Iranian strategic asset. Left out is that Iran is facing pressures from the other BRICS partners and even Israeli ally Azerbaijan to not create a wider regional war and an enticement to Iran of economic benefits if it goes along.
First, a report from Al Jazeera,
Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire holds as UN chief sees ‘ray of hope’. Thousands of displaced people set out to return to their homes in southern Lebanon, but others heed Israeli warnings to stay out. 11/27/24.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has appeared to hold on its first day as thousands of displaced people set out to return to their homes in southern Lebanon despite Israel’s military announcing restrictions on movement in the area. Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X on Wednesday that residents would be barred from travelling south of the Litani River, about 30km (20 miles) from the Israeli border, from 5pm (15:00 GMT) until 7am (05:00 GMT) on Thursday. He said displaced residents would not be allowed to return to villages the army had ordered them to leave as Israeli forces were still present in the area.
The ceasefire, which was brokered by the United States and came into effect on Wednesday morning, gives Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters 60 days to withdraw from southern Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he instructed the military not to allow residents back into the Lebanese villages near the Israel-Lebanon border. Lebanon’s army, which has been given the responsibility of ensuring the ceasefire lasts and will take control of southern Lebanon as Israel gradually withdraws its forces, said it has begun deploying additional troops south of the Litani.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli military Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Israel’s enforcement of the ceasefire would be determined by whether Hezbollah keeps to the agreement. “Hezbollah operatives who approach our troops, the border area and the villages within the area we have marked will be struck. … We are preparing, getting ready for the possibility that this [ceasefire] approach won’t succeed,” he said.
Hezbollah claims ‘victory’
In its first public statement since the truce came into effect, Hezbollah said it achieved a “victory” over Israel. “Victory from God almighty was the ally of the righteous cause,” the statement from the Iran-algned group said. Hezbollah fighters “will remain in total readiness to deal with the Israeli enemy’s ambitions and its attacks”, the statement added. Earlier, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati called for unity after what he said was the “most cruel phase in Lebanese history”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden that his government had approved the ceasefire and that he appreciated his “understanding that Israel will maintain its freedom of action in enforcing it”, his office said. Biden released a joint statement with French President Emmanuel Macron, emphasising that both countries “will work with Israel and Lebanon to ensure this arrangement is fully implemented and enforced”.
Hezbollah began launching rockets towards Israel on October 8, 2023, in what it said was solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Cross-border attacks persisted for months. Israel’s military escalated the fighting in September, bombarding areas across the country and then launching a ground offensive in October. At least 3,823 people have been killed and 15,859 wounded in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since October 2023, according to Lebanese health authorities. [SNIP]…..
Ending this segment and this edition, Electronic Intifada’s weekly news show, with an update about the agreement added as the opening segment of the otherwise-prerecorded show.
The Electronic Intifada Podcast, 11/27/24. three hours and 35 minutes.
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Discussion and analysis of Lebanon-Israel ceasefire deal with Ali Abunimah, Jon Elmer, Asa Winstanley and Nora Barrows-Friedman
49:19 News report with Nora Barrows-Friedman
01:10:10 Abdaljawad Omar analyzes Israel's genocidal strategies and "shock without awe”
02:01:09 Jon Elmer covers the resistance in northern Gaza, the northern West Bank and southern Lebanon
03:01:02 Group discussion on resistance, International Criminal Court and western reactions
My comments. Some interesting items in the ceasefire deal discussion. The participants point out that Hezbollah managed to prevent an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, and has survived with its weapons intact. On the other hand, it has had to withdraw from its heartland area, south Lebanon where it was born, and has had to decouple itself from the Gaza situation. France was apparently refused by Israel as a participant till it agreed to issue a ruling that it will not enforce the ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu were he to go to France. The excuse given by the French government in its announcement today is that Israel is not a signer of the Rome Convention creation the ICC. No such exception was made when the French government in September called upon Mongolia to arrest Vladimir Putin. Other European nations are expected to follow along with France’s decision. Lots of open questions remain about the implementation of the agreement, and the state of the “axis of resistance,” since Hezbollah has made a major concession regarding its solidarity with other members of the axis. The Netanyahu regime has made it plain it regards the quieting of the Lebanon front as an opportunity to escalate in Gaza and the West Bank, probably moving toward open annexation, at least in the latter. What will this mean, moving forward?
The news report, recorded Monday, reported what have become routine horrors, including the targeting by the IDF of the oxygen supply of one of the few remaining functioning hospitals in Gaza, and horrors all over Lebanon, which has become another Gaza.
Abdaljawad Omar is a writer and lecturer based in Ramallah, Palestine. He is currently teaching in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University, located near Ramallah. He discusses the US election results as well.