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| FDA panel recommends authorizing Moderna, Pfizer shots for youngest kids |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-15-2022, 04:34 PM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Secular]
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FDA panel recommends authorizing Moderna, Pfizer shots for youngest kids
ABC News | June 15, 2022
Parents with young kids are one step closer to getting them vaccinated following a grueling wait for the last remaining group to be authorized for a vaccine.
The process for authorization and recommendation from the regulatory agencies kicked off Wednesday with a meeting of the Food and Drug Administration's committee of independent experts.
The committee voted to recommend the Moderna vaccine for kids under 6, which is a two-dose vaccine, and the Pfizer vaccine for kids under 5, which is a three-dose vaccine. Both votes were unanimous.
MORE: As China seeks 'zero COVID,' Shanghai delays reopenings and orders mass testing
Though kids have generally had less-severe cases of COVID-19 than older adults, there have still been nearly 500 deaths in kids under 5 and over 30,000 hospitalizations in the U.S.
"We are dealing with an issue where I think we have to be careful that we don't become numb to the number of pediatric deaths because of the overwhelming number of older deaths here. Every life is important. And vaccine-preventable deaths are ones that we would like to try to do something about," said Dr. Peter Marks, who runs the vaccine division at the FDA.
"Granted, it's a population that has been much less affected than the older populations, particularly the oldest population, but one nonetheless that has also been affected. And I think for those who have lost children to COVID-19, our hearts go out to them, because these are -- each child that's lost essentially fractures a family," Marks told the committee on Wednesday.
Officials from Pfizer and Moderna stressed Wednesday that their vaccines are safe and effective at protecting young children against COVID-19.
Both companies reported mild reactions to the shots. Among young children, fevers and pain at the injection site were the most common symptoms reported following the shot, with most post-vaccination symptoms resolving in a matter of days.
"These pediatric groups represent a more vulnerable population, so it is particularly important to minimize reactions, including fever, while achieving an immune response likely to provide protection against COVID-19," said Dr. William Gruber, senior vice president of vaccine clinical research and development at Pfizer.
MORE: Study on child hepatitis cases points to prior COVID infection, but experts say too soon to know
Neither Moderna nor Pfizer reported any cases of myocarditis among the youngest children.
And the impact spans wider than the statistics. Parents with kids too young to be vaccinated have dealt with constant child care interruptions from COVID-19 scares and two years of mitigation strategies even after most people in the country dropped their masks.
Once the FDA committee votes on Wednesday, the process moves to FDA leadership to officially authorize the vaccines. If that happens, the administration can start shipping out vaccines to states.
Then, on Friday and Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advisers will meet to review the data on both vaccines.
The final step in the process is a recommendation from CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, after which shots can be administered in doctors' offices, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and other locations.
Vaccines are expected to be available as early as the week of June 21, if the review processes find the vaccines safe and effective.
The Biden administration estimates that 85% of children under the age of 5 live within 5 miles of a potential vaccination site, an administration official said.
But it will be an uphill battle to convince parents to vaccinate their young kids, if polling is any indication. A recent survey from KFF found that just 1 in 5 parents are eager to vaccinate their kids right away.
Federal officials said they plan to lean into existing networks to get vaccine information out to families, like the American Academy of Pediatrics, mom blogs and PTAs, as well as groups specific to communities of color, like the League of United Latin American Citizens.
"We have learned from our previous campaigns, and one of the most important lessons that we've learned is that we know who people listen to when making decisions, and there are trusted people in their lives," a senior administration official said.
What we know about the differences between the two vaccines
Pfizer's vaccine is one-tenth the size of the adult dose, given as a three-shot series.
The company's early data showed it was 80% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. But that protection largely didn't kick in until the third shot -- the data showed very minimal protection after doses one and two.
There was a lot of concern among the members of Wednesday's FDA committee that Pfizer's high efficacy headline would lead parents to think it was more protective than it is, and sooner.
As Dr. Paul Offit, a director at Philadelphia Children's Hospital and member of the panel, warned, "I do support this but I do worry that parents aren't necessarily going to know that after two doses, they may not be protected at all and engage in the kind of activity that would put their child at risk."
Other members expressed concern that kids would not return for the third dose, which would render them unprotected.
"We know it's a struggle to get people in for two, we've already seen with the boosters for adults," said Dr. Jeanette Lee, professor of biostatistics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. "And so my concern is that you have to get the three doses to really get what you need on this."
MORE: If you’re still waiting for herd immunity for COVID-19, it's time to move on: Experts
As for Moderna, its vaccine for young kids is one-quarter of the size of the adult dose, given as only two shots.
Early data showed it was about 40% to 50% effective at preventing mild infections after two shots.
But representatives for Moderna said they expected a third shot, or booster, would be available to kids in the coming months -- either the current vaccine, or the omicron-specific vaccine the company is developing for the fall -- which could increase efficacy.
And overall, experts heavily cautioned that all of the efficacy numbers for both vaccines are based on small samples and could vary greatly as the companies continue to follow the studies for longer.
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| Pope restricts new traditional groups by ordering Vatican approval for associations of the faithful |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-15-2022, 04:28 PM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope restricts new traditional groups by ordering Vatican approval for associations of the faithful
The directive appears to be a move to ‘prevent traditional Catholic Religious communities, such as new Franciscan or Augustinian communities, from acquiring juridic personality...Rome has sent the bishops a very clear message.'
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Pope Francis & Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic LifeShutterstock/Vatican News
Wed Jun 15, 2022
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [adapted]) – Pope Francis has issued a directive limiting the powers of diocesan bishops by ordering them to seek the Vatican’s permission before establishing any groups of the faithful looking to become religious institutes or societies, in a move which has been described as an attempt to prevent any new traditional communities from being formed.
Pope Francis’s directive, or Rescript, was issued June 15, but signed February 7 during an audience he gave to Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, and Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo, the Prefect and Archbishop Secretary respectively of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The Rescript reads:
Quote:The diocesan bishop, before erecting – by decree – a public association of the faithful with a view to becoming an Institute of Consecrated Life or Society of Apostolic Life of diocesan right, must obtain the written license of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The Rescript, issued in Italian, is to be “promulgated by publication in L’Osservatore Romano, entering into force immediately, and then published in the official commentary of the Acta Apostolicae Sedis,” which contains the official documents and actions of the Holy See.
As noted by Vatican journalist Diane Montagna, the Pope’s Rescript thus necessitates a change in Canon Law 312 §1, although the Rescript made no mention of such a change having taken place or being about to occur, suggesting that Cardinal Braz de Aviz might not have realized the contradiction the directive places upon existing Canon Law.
Canon 312 §1 currently defends the right of local bishops to erect public associations of the faithful, stipulating:
Quote:The authority competent to erect public associations is:
1/ the Holy See for universal and international associations;
2/ the conference of bishops in its own territory for national associations, that is, those which from their founding are directed toward activity throughout the whole nation;
3/ the diocesan bishop in his own territory, but not a diocesan administrator, for diocesan associations, except, however, for those associations whose right of erection has been reserved to others by apostolic privilege.
The new restrictions placed upon diocesan bishops will have the practical effect of stifling the growth of new communities or orders, particularly traditional ones, should they not meet with the approval of the staunchly anti-traditionalist Braz de Aviz.
When combined with Traditionis Custodes, Cardinal-elect Arthur Roche’s Responsa ad dubia, and the 2018 document Cor Orans – described as a “cruel and merciless” assault against contemplative orders, motivated by “hatred” – the new Rescript adds to the recent string of stringent Vatican actions attempting to curtail the future of the Traditional Latin Mass and groups who are devoted to it.
Speaking to LifeSiteNews, Brother Martin of the Oblates of St. Augustine – which is itself a de facto association – warned that “the immediate intent of this change in the Code of Canon Law appears to be to prevent traditional Catholic Religious communities, such as new Franciscan or Augustinian communities, from acquiring juridic personality.”
“Although it appears that these communities may still obtain the status of a Private Association with approved statutes, Rome has sent the bishops a very clear message,” said Martin.
He added that while local bishops “have the duty to prevent the erection of communities duplicating charisms of already existing Religious Institutes or Societies of Apostolic Life, many traditional priests and Religious who are members of already existing communities find that they are forbidden by their community to practice the traditional Catholic faith and pray using the Church’s ancient Rite.”
Such priests and religious, after “encountering unchristian behavior and persecution behind the scenes,” end up leaving their communities “to begin an Association of the Faithful, borrowing much of their original charism, but including a specific difference to meet the requirements to obtain juridic personality,” said Martin.
The religious brother added how such a move had been employed by some seminarians from the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, who left to “form a new community to circumvent persecution.”
Traditional and contemplative religious communities have been under increasing pressure from the Vatican, particularly since the publication of Cor Orans and the 2016 document Vultum Dei quaerere. Father Maximilian Mary Dean, a former Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate and the chaplain to the discalced Carmelite nuns of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, warned that under Cardinal Braz de Aviz, the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life was “just going to destroy the vocations and the way of life.”
Commenting on the new Rescript, Mike Parrott, host of the Restoring the Faith Media podcast, wrote that “if Cor Orans was a frontal attack on contemplative cloisters, this is the accompanying assault on all other would-be traditional communities or monasteries.”
Speaking to LifeSiteNews, Parrott said that the Pope’s Rescript, “which comes on the heels of Francis’ cynical comment that we ‘still have 40 more years’ to convince everyone that this disastrous New Springtime really is the way forward, reinforces the perceived contempt this pope has for the ‘rigid restorationists’ he weekly mocks.”
“Notwithstanding the unending and out of touch personal attacks on grandmothers wearing lace, the move contradicts Francis’ stated goal of decentralizing a new ‘Synodal Church,’ in which German Bishops are, for example, free to redefine Catholic Dogma on marriage and sexuality,” added Parrott.
In the Pope’s December 2021 address to the Plenary Assembly of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, he urged those present to “develop collaboration with the diocesan bishops” regarding the formation of new communities. Such “mutual listening” would prevent “the inappropriate creation of institutes without sufficient motivation or adequate vigour perhaps with good will, but with something missing,” said Francis.
However, with “mutual listening” now being replaced by a curtailment of the diocesan bishops’ right to erect associations, Parrott stated that the Rescript “further deprives bishops of their natural governance powers in the same way Traditionis Custodes and Cor Orans have done, ensuring Rome has both the last word, but also the first word too, on restricting the growth of [traditional] Catholicism.”
Contact information for respectful communication:
Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
Cardinal Prefect Joao Braz di Aviz: civcsva.pref@ccscrlife.va,
Archbishop Secretary José Rodríguez Carballo: civcsva.segr@ccscrlife.va,
General email form can be found here.
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| Pope Francis: Traditional Catholicism is Restorationism |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-14-2022, 10:43 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope Francis: There are many ‘restorers’ in the US who do not accept Vatican II
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Pope Francis sat at the front of the congregation in St. Peter's Basilica on the Solemnity of Pentecost on June 5, 2022. Pope Francis sat at the front of the congregation in St. Peter's Basilica on the Solemnity of Pentecost on June 5, 2022. | Vatican Media
(CNA) Vatican City, Jun 14, 2022
There are many “restorers” in the United States who do not accept the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday.
Speaking to the editors of Jesuit journals, he criticized what he called “restorationism” in the Church, which he defined as the failure to accept Vatican II, the ecumenical council held from 1962 to 1965.
He said: “Restorationism has come to gag the Council. The number of groups of ‘restorers’ — for example, in the United States there are many — is significant.”
“An Argentine bishop told me that he had been asked to administer a diocese that had fallen into the hands of these ‘restorers.’ They had never accepted the Council. There are ideas, behaviors that arise from a restorationism that basically did not accept the Council.”
“The problem is precisely this: in some contexts, the Council has not yet been accepted. It is also true that it takes a century for a Council to take root. We still have 40 years to make it take root, then!”
Pope Francis cited opposition to Vatican II when he issued the motu proprio Traditionis custodes in July 2021, limiting celebrations of the Traditional Latin Mass.
In a letter to the world’s bishops, he said he was saddened that the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass was “often characterized by a rejection not only of the liturgical reform, but of the Vatican Council II itself.”
To doubt the Council, he said, is “in the final analysis, to doubt the Holy Spirit himself who guides the Church.”
The pope’s conversation with editors, which also touched on the war in Ukraine and the German “Synodal Way,” was published in La Civiltà Cattolica on June 14 but was conducted on May 19.
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| China uses its vast COVID surveillance infrastructure to stifle protests |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-14-2022, 10:31 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
SHANGHAI, June 14 (Reuters) - A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.
The depositors were planning to travel to the central province of Henan this week from across China to protest against an almost two-month block on accessing at least $178 million of deposits, which has left companies unable to pay workers and individuals unable to access savings. read more
Rights groups have warned China could use its vast COVID surveillance infrastructure to stifle dissent. Without a green code on their smartphone app, citizens lose access to public transport and spaces such as restaurants and malls, as well as the right to travel across the country.
"They are putting digital handcuffs on us," said a depositor from Sichuan province surnamed Chen, who declined to use his full name for fear of government retribution.
The Henan provincial government, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Public Security did not respond to requests for comment.
After recent COVID outbreaks, some regions in China have asked travellers to register their plans online.
A man surnamed Liu, who lives in Hubei province, found that his health code turned red on the morning of June 12 after he registered the day before to travel to Henan.
Liu had planned to travel to a protest planned for Monday in the Henan provincial capital Zhengzhou, where he had hoped to get his money back. The protest would have been the latest among numerous such demonstrations in Henan in recent months.
More than 200 depositors were similarly blocked when their health codes turned red, according to members of a WeChat group.
It could not be ascertained if the change in code was intended to block the protesters or for another reason, but three depositors told Reuters they knew people who had registered to travel to Henan, who were not connected to the frozen funds, whose codes did not turn red.
Yu Zhou Xin Min Sheng Village Bank, Shangcai Huimin Country Bank and Zhecheng Huanghuai Community Bank froze deposits on April 18, with all three telling customers they were upgrading internal systems. read more
Liu, who declined to give his full name for fear of government repercussions, said his child may not be able to go to school if his code does not soon revert to green.
"I can't do anything, I can't go anywhere. You're treated as though you're a criminal. It infringes on my human rights," said Liu.
Wang Qiong, who lives in the central city of Wuhan, found her health code had turned red after she registered to travel to Henan on June 11.
"The police had my identity details from the last time I went to protest in April," said Wang, who said she has lost access to 2.3 million yuan ($341,550).
Other depositors told Reuters they were able to arrive in Zhengzhou by train and car but their codes turned red as soon as they scanned city health codes.
($1 = 6.7340 Chinese yuan renminbi)
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| US Seeks To Expand Monkeypox Testing As Narrative Keeps On Rolling |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-14-2022, 06:14 AM - Forum: Health
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US Seeks To Expand Monkeypox Testing As Narrative Keeps On Rolling
ZH | Jun 13, 2022
The Biden administration is working to expand monkeypox testing capabilities beyond a narrow group of public health labs, as infectious disease experts are now suggesting that testing for the virus needs to become part of routine care.
As the Epoch Times notes, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a conference call on Friday that her agency is working with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand testing capacity to include commercial laboratories.
At present, monkeypox testing is done through a network of 69 public health laboratories, which send results to the CDC for confirmation.
So far, there have been 50 confirmed cases in the US across 16 states, while roughly 300 monkeypox tests have been administered.
"There is not enough testing going on now for monkeypox in the United States," said Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "The commercial labs are used to working with healthcare providers from across the country, moving samples around quickly, reporting results quickly in a way that providers understand and expect."
Meanwhile, as Off-Guardian notes, Monkeypox hysteria continues - with The Atlantic publishing a recent piece suggesting that Monkeypox "Could be nothing," or "Could Be the Next Syphilis."
Nature asks, "can the global outbreaks be contained?"
That said, there has been some pushback to the 'dire' sounding headlines - with the CDC declaring that it was "very unlikely" Monkeypox is airborne (in response to a NYT article claiming it can become so), and the Washington Post noting that "Number of monkeypox cases grows, but U.S. officials say overall risk is low."
And despite monkeypox's relatively low transmission rate, as we noted on Sunday, the Biden administration has ordered 500,000 more doses of monkeypox vaccine.
Denmark-based biotech group Bavarian Nordic, the manufacturer of the vaccines, said that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has placed the order, to be delivered later this year.
“With the previous order from BARDA for 1.4 million doses of liquid-frozen JYNNEOS, awarded in 2020, this order will bring the total U.S. inventory of the vaccine to nearly 2 million doses,” the company announced on Friday. Many of the 1.9 million doses are being held by the company until the U.S. government requests them.
The 500,000 vaccine doses will be manufactured using bulk materials that are owned by the United States under previous contracts with BARDA, and are currently stored with the company.
“The majority of this bulk, however, will be converted to approximately 13 million freeze-dried doses of JYNNEOS during 2023-2025,” Barvarian Nordic said.
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| Canada’s top doctor claims pandemic ‘not over,’ urges preparation for ‘seventh’ COVID wave |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-14-2022, 06:08 AM - Forum: Health
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Canada’s top doctor claims pandemic ‘not over,’ urges preparation for ‘seventh’ COVID wave
'I think the pandemic is not over, and ... given the continuous evolution of the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus,
we think that it’s very likely that we will get some more viral activity in the future,' said Dr. Theresa Tam.
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Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada.CTV News / YouTube
Mon Jun 13, 2022
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s chief public health officer has said that people should “prepare” for a possible seventh wave of COVID come the fall.
“I think the pandemic is not over, and … given the continuous evolution of the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus we think that it’s very likely that we will get some more viral activity in the future,” said Dr. Theresa Tam while speaking before a House of Commons Standing Committee on Health last week. Tam was responding to a question about a possible “seventh” wave of COVID from NDP MP Don Davies.
“We can’t predict exactly how big the next wave is, but I think we need to prepare, we need to prepare for the fall and winter season.”
Quote:Canada’s top doctor Theresa Tam warns of a possible seventh COVID-19 wave in the future. She added that “we need to prepare for the fall and winter season.” Tam also said the pandemic is not over. pic.twitter.com/PsdEa6LRVx
— Élie Cantin-Nantel (@elie_mcn) June 9, 2022
Tam also said that she and her team are “watching out for some very different variants” of COVID mutations, including different sub-variants of omicron.
Tam declared that the COVID injections, when given in three doses, offer a 60 percent protection against omicron, while admitting that two doses of the jab offers only 20 percent protection.
“Omicron was a game-changer, is a game-changer,” said Tam.
“Prior to that, two doses of a vaccine for example, had very high efficacy against infection as well as severe outcomes.”
She then claimed that, as the COVID jabs themselves do not along stop COVID transmission, a layered approach including the use of masks needs to be considered.
The COVID jab trials have never generated evidence that the injections stop infection or transmission of the virus. There is also very strong evidence that those with the COVID jabs are just as likely to carry and transmit the virus as the unvaccinated.
For months both the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau along with provincial governments encouraged Canadians to take the injections, often through coercive means such as threatening to take away their jobs. Those who refused were shown contempt.
Indeed, last year Trudeau called the vaccine-free “extremists who don’t believe in science” who are “often misogynists” and “often racists.”
The Trudeau government still has in place a mandate that all federal employees, even those who work from home, must be “fully vaccinated” with the COVID jabs.
Also in place is a mandate that in effect bans those who have chosen not to get the COVID vaccines from traveling by air, rail, or sea. This measure bans Canadians from flying within Canada as well as out of the country. Very few exceptions are given.
However, cracks in the prime minister’s strategy are showing as just last week a report surfaced that the “massive” majority of MPs within Trudeau’s own party want the COVID travel mandates gone.
Trudeau just today announced he had tested positive for COVID, which is the second time in less than six months.
A recent international study has found that COVID jab mandates have done far more harm than good.
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| Biden administration orders half million more doses of monkeypox vaccine |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-13-2022, 11:40 AM - Forum: Health
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Biden administration orders half million more doses of monkeypox vaccine
U.S. stocks up on vaccines for disease that primarily spreads through homosexual activities.
Mon Jun 13, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews [adapted]) — The Biden administration announced on Friday that it had ordered an additional 500,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine to add to the 372,000 already purchased by federal officials.
“As of Friday, the U.S. had identified 45 cases in 15 states and the District of Columbia,” the Associated Press reported. “More than 1,300 cases have been found in about 30 other countries outside the areas of Africa where the virus is endemic.”
The disease is primarily spread through close contact, often between homosexual men although the AP downplayed that risk in its reporting.
“Last month, cases began emerging in Europe and the United States,” the AP reported. “Many — but not all — of those who contracted the virus had traveled internationally. Most were men who have sex with men, but health officials stress that anyone can get monkeypox.”
The new fear of monkeypox has raised questions about what public health officials knew about the disease before it became public. For example, on April 21 Canadian health officials ordered 500,000 doses of a smallpox vaccine, which reportedly can be used against monkeypox. However, the first monkeypox cases were not announced until May 13.
Attorney Michael Senger wrote an article for the Brownstone Institute in which he noted that the “world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox” is occurring “just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a ‘global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox’ beginning in mid-May 2022.”
“The global Monkeypox outbreak — occurring on the exact timeline predicted by a biosecurity simulation of a global Monkeypox outbreak a year prior — bears a striking resemblance to the outbreak of COVID-19 just months after Event 201, a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic almost exactly like COVID-19,” Senger wrote.
Meanwhile, a historian of infectious diseases says that homosexual men like himself need to be warned about the risk of monkeypox.
“I worry that public-health leaders are not doing enough to directly alert men who have sex with men about monkeypox,” Professor Jim Downs at Gettysburg College wrote on May 28. “Gay men are not the only people at risk, but they do need to know that, right now, the condition appears to be spreading most actively within their community.”
He argued in The Atlantic, a left-leaning magazine, that “public-health agencies should also press gay social-media apps and other online platforms to tell their users that men who have sex with men have been disproportionately infected by the virus.”
“[M[onkeypox doesn’t require sexual contact but is prone to spread in situations where people with exposed skin are together in close quarters,” he wrote.
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| "This is where the ‘Great Reset’ comes in..." |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-13-2022, 11:31 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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US Is "Beyond Bankrupt" - Kim Dotcom Fears "Controlled Demolition" Enabling A "New Dystopian Future"
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ZH | Jun 11, 2022
Authored by Alexandra Bruce via ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net,
New Zealand tech CEO, Kim Dotcom did the math on the United States’ sovereign debt and he tweeted a thread about it, saying it may the most important thread that he may ever make.
Kim explains that US spending and debt have spiraled out of control and the Government can only raise the money it needs by printing more of it, which means that hyperinflation is guaranteed.
He says this has been going on for decades and there’s no way to fix it and that the US got away with this for so long, because US dollar is the world’s reserve currency.
When the US Government prints trillions, it is thereby robbing Americans and the entire world in what he calls the biggest theft in history.
He says the total US debt is at $90 trillion, which together with $169 trillion in US unfunded liabilities totals $259 trillion, which is $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US Taxpayer.
Now, the value of all US assets combined: every piece of land, real estate, all savings, all companies, everything that all citizens, businesses, entities and the state own is worth $193 trillion.
Our total debt, $259 trillion minus our total net worth, $193 trillion equals negative $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off.
So even if the US could sell all assets at the current value, which is impossible, it would still be broke.
This is where the ‘Great Reset’ comes in and he asks, “Is it a controlled demolition of the global markets, economies and the world as we know it? A shift into a new dystopian future where the elites are the masters of the slaves without the cosmetics of democracy?”
He notes how the world has changed so much in recent years and how nothing seems to make sense anymore.
He sees the blatant corruption and the obvious gaslighting propaganda media and the erosion of our rights but he doesn’t know where it’s all going and he finishes the thread asking, “What’s the end game?”
As Harrison Smith from the American Journal says, “It’s a pyramid scheme. The people perpetrating the pyramid scheme are in charge of everything…they’re going to sacrifice humanity in order to maintain their system…
“The world economy is being collapsed, the food supply system is being destroyed, the energy that we rely on to maintain civilization is being curtailed and eliminated and we’ll be forced into the Great Reset where we will own nothing.”
Former BlackRock stockpicker, Ed Dowd believes that the entire COVID sham was created as a cover for the financial collapse and that new lockdowns are coming, to try mitigate the inevitable violence and chaos that we can expect to be witnessing in the streets.
We also saw how Dr Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer VP also believes that COVID and the death shot are an elaborate hoax to engineer a collapse of sovereign currencies to bring in the Great Reset and the introduction of programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), for a wholly-controlled population, in which people will not be able to buy food, etc. unless the algorithms permit and the undesirables can basically be starved to death via artificial intelligence.
Rumble video: Kim Dotcom Breaks Down the Scale of Government Debt
Kim Dotcom June 5, 2022 Thread (emphasis ours)
Quote:This may be the most important thread I ever make. Big picture stuff about the major global collapse that is coming.
I will try to help you understand why the future is not what we’re hoping for. It’s worse than most can imagine.
Our leaders know.
But what are they planning?
The United States did not have a surplus or a balanced budget since 2001. In the last 50 years the US only had 4 years of profit. In fact all the profit the US had would not be enough to pay for 6 months of the current yearly deficit. So how did the US pay for things?
US spending and debt have spiraled out of control and the Govt can only raise the money it needs by printing it. That causes inflation. It’s like taxing you extra because you pay more for the things you need and all your assets decline in value.
See the US money printing frenzy:
The reason why the US got away with it for so long is because USD is the worlds reserve currency. Nations everywhere hold USD as a secure asset. So when the US Govt prints trillions it’s robbing Americans and the entire world. The biggest theft in history.
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— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) June 5, 2022
The problem is that this has been going for decades and there’s now no way to fix it. The reality is that the US has been bankrupt for some time and what’s coming is a nightmare: Mass poverty and a new system of control. Let me explain why this isn’t just doom and gloom talk.
Total US debt is at $90 trillion. US unfunded liabilities are at $169 trillion. Combined that’s $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US tax payer 
Remember, the only way the US Government can operate now is by printing more money. Which means hyperinflation is inevitable.
The total value of ALL companies listed on the US stock market is $53 trillion. The real value is much lower because the US has been printing trillions to provide interest free loans to investment banks to pump up the stock market. It’s a scam.
Most of the $53 trillion is air.
The value of all US assets combined, every piece of land, real estate, all savings, all companies, everything that all citizens, businesses, entities and the state own is worth $193 trillion.
That number is also full of air just like the US stock market.
US total debt: $90 trillion
US unfunded liabilities: $169 trillion
Total: $259 trillion
Minus all US assets: $193 trillion
Balance: – $66 trillion
That’s $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off.
Do you understand?
So even if the US could sell all assets at the current value, which is impossible, it would still be broke.
The US is beyond bankrupt.
This patient is already dead.
This patient is now a zombie.
You probably wonder why are things still going? Why didn’t everything collapse yet.
It’s all perception, denial and dependency.
The perception is that the US has the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. But in reality the US is broke and can’t afford its army.
The denial is that all nations depend on a strong USD or global markets collapse.
The reason why the US zombie keeps going is because the end of the US is the end of western prosperity and an admission that the current system failed as a model for the world. It doesn’t change the reality. The collapse is inevitable and coming.
What are our leaders planning?
You may have heard about the ‘great reset’ or the ‘new world order’. Is it a controlled demolition of the global markets, economies and the world as we know it?
A shift into a new dystopian future where the elites are the masters of the slaves without the cosmetics of democracy?
Without a controlled demolition the world will collapse for all, including the elites. The world has changed so much and nothing seems to make sense anymore, the blatant corruption is out in the open, the obvious propaganda media, the erosion of our rights.
What’s the end game?
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| Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-12-2022, 10:11 AM - Forum: Novenas
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Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
[This powerful prayer was recited every day by Padre Pio for all those who asked for his prayers.
It brought about thousands of miracles and it was Padre Pio’s favorite prayer.]
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I. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…… (here name your request)
Our Father….Hail Mary….Glory Be to the Father….Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
II. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of…….(here name your request)
Our Father…Hail Mary….Glory Be To the Father….Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
III. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.” Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of…..(here name your request)
Our Father….Hail Mary….Glory Be to the Father…Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.
Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.
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| The Athanasian Creed |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-12-2022, 08:29 AM - Forum: Church Doctrine & Teaching
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Excerpt from Dom Prosper Guéranger's The Liturgical Year - Trinity Sunday
For this end, we will unite with holy Church, who in her Office of Prime, recites on this Solemnity, as also on every Sunday not taken up by a Feast, the magnificent Symbol known as the Athanasian Creed. It gives us, in a summary of much majesty and precision, the doctrine of the holy Doctor, Saint Athanasius, regarding the mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation.
It is a psalm or hymn of praise, of confession, and of profound, self-prostrating homage, parallel to the Canticles of the elect in heaven. It appeals to the imagination quite as much as to the intellect. It is the war-song of faith, with which we warn first ourselves, then each other, and then all those who are within its hearing, and the hearing of the Truth, who our God is, and how we must worship Him, and how vast our responsibility will be if we know what to believe, and yet believe not.
The Athanasian Creed
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Quicumque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est ut teneat Catholicam fidem.
Whosoever would be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold that Catholic faith.
Quam nisi quisque integram inviolatamque servaverit, absque dubio inæternum peribit.
Which faith, except every one doth keep entire, and unviolated, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Fides autem Catholica hæc est, ut unum Deum in Trinitate, et Trinitatem in Unitate veneremur;
Now the Catholic Faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;
Neque confundentes personas, neque substantiam separantes.
Neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance.
Alia est enim persona Patria, alia Filii, alia Spiritus sancti.
For one is the person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost.
Sed Patris, et Filii, et spiritus sancti una est divinitas, æqualis gloria, coæterna majestas.
But the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.
Qualis Pater, talis Filius, talis Spiritus sanctus.
Such as the Father is, such is the Son, such is the Holy Ghost.
Increatus Pater, increatus Filius, increatus spiritus sanctus.
The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, the Holy Ghost is uncreated.
Immensus Pater, immensus Filius, immensus Spiritus sanctus.
The Father is incomprehensible, the Son is incomprehensible, the Holy Ghost is incomprehensible.
Æternus Pater, æternus Filius, æternus Spiritus sanctus.
The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, the Holy Ghost is eternal.
Et tamen non tres æterni, sed unus æternus.
And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.
Sicut non tres increati, nec tres immensi, sed unus increatus, et unus immensus.
And also they are not three uncreateds, but one uncreated, and one incomprehensible.
Similiter omnipotens Pater, omnipotens Filius, omnipotens Spiritus sanctus.
In like manner the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, the Holy Ghost is almighty.
Et tamen non tres omnipotentes, sed unus omnipotens.
And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty.
Ita Deus Pater, Deus Filius, Deus Spiritus sanctus.
So, the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God.
Et tamen non tres Dii, sed unus est Deus.
And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
Ita Dominus Pater, Dominus Filius, Dominus Spiritus sanctus.
So, the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, the Holy Ghost is Lord.
Et tamen non tres Domini, sed unus est Dominus.
And yet they are not three Lord, but one Lord.
Quia sicut singillatim unamquamque personam Deum ac Dominum confiteri Christiana veritate compellimur: ita tres Deos aut Dominos dicere, Catholica religione prohibemur.
For, as we are compelled, by the Christian truth, to acknowledge each person, by himself, to be God and Lord: so, are we forbidden, by the Catholic religion, to say there are three Gods, or three Lords.
Pater a nullo est factus, nec creatus, nec genitus.
The Father is made of no one, neither created, nor begotten.
Filius a Patre solo est: non factus, nec creatus, sed genitus.
The Son is from the Father alone; not made, nor created, but begotten.
Spiritus sanctus a Patre et Filio, non factus, nec creatus, nec genitus, sed procedens.
The Holy Ghost is from the Father and the Son; not made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
Unus ergo Pater, non tres Patres; unus Filius, non tres Filii: unus Spiritus sanctus, non tres Spiritus sancti.
There is, then, one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts.
Et in hac Trinitate nihil prius aut posterius, nohil majus aut minus: sed totæ tres personæ coæternæ sibi sunt, et coæquales.
And in this Trinity, there is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less; but the whole three Persons are co-eternal to one another, and co-equal.
Ita ut per omnia, sicut jam supra dictum est, et Unitas in Trinitate, et Trinitas in Unitate veneranda sit.
So that, in all things, as hath been already said above, the Unity is to be worshipped in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity.
Qui vult ergo salvus esse: ita de Trinitate sentiat.
He, therefore, that would be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.
Sed necessarium est ad æternam salutem: ut Incarnationem quoque Domini nostri Jesu Christi fideliter credat.
Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Est ergo fides recta, ut credamus et confiteamur: quia Dominus noster Jesus Christus Dei Filius, Deus et homo est.
Now the right faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is both God and Man.
Deus est ex substantia Patris ante sæcula genitus: et homo est ex substantia matris in sæculo natus.
He is God, of the substance of his Father, begotten before the world; and he is Man, of the substance of his Mother, born in the world.
Perfectus Deus, perfectus homo: ex anima rationali, et humana carne subsistens.
Perfect god, perfect Man: subsisting of a rational soul, and human flesh.
Æqualis Patri secundum divinitatem: minor Patre secundum humanitatem.
Equal to the Father according to his Godhead: lesser than the Father, according to his Manhood.
Qui licet Deus sit, et homo: non duo tamen, sed unus Christus.
Who although he be both God and Man, yet he is not two, but one, Christ.
Unus autem non conversione divinitatis in carnem, sed assumptione humanitatis in Deum.
One, not by the conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by the taking of the Manhood unto God.
Unus omnino, non confusione substantiæ, sed unitate personæ.
One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.
Nam sicut anima rationalis et caro unus est homo, ita Deus et homo unus est Christus.
For, as the rational soul and the flesh is one man, so, God and Man is one Christ.
Qui passus est pro salute nostra, descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis.
Who suffered for our salvation; descended into hell; rose again, the third day, from the dead.
Ascendit ad cœlos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis: inde venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos.
He ascendeth into heaven; he sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead.
Ad cujus adventum omnes homines resurgere habent cum corporibus suis, et reddituri sunt de factis propriis rationem.
At whose coming, all men shall rise again, with their bodies; and shall give an account of their own works.
Et qui bona egerunt, ibunt in vitam æternam; qui vero mala, in ignem æternum.
And they that have done good, shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire.
Hæc est fides Catholica: quam nisi quisque fideliter, firmiterque crediderit, salvus ese non poterit.
This is the Catholic faith: which except every man believe faithfully and steadfastly, he cannot be saved.
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| St. Ignatius of Loyola: God Rewards Those Who Show Zeal for His Glory |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-12-2022, 07:47 AM - Forum: The Saints
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God Rewards Those Who Show Zeal for His Glory
From L'Apostolat de la priere, p. 38, in The Catechism in Examples, by Rev. D. Chisholm, 1919, vol. 5, p. 397
St. Ignatius was so much imbued with charity toward his neighbor that he was accustomed to say: "If I were at the point of death, and the assurance were given me that I would immediately enter into the possession of the eternal happiness of Heaven, and if God should ask me to remain on earth for a few years longer at the risk of my salvation in order that I might gain souls to Him, I would most willingly consent to remain."
On hearing these words one day, a pious critic remarked to him that he considered it to be a most imprudent thing to expose himself to lose his own soul for the sake of saving the souls of others. "For," he added, "in such an important affair, charity to ourselves requires of us to look to our own eternal interests in the first place before those of our neighbor."
The Saint, inspired by his great zeal for the salvation of souls and filled with confidence in God, answered: "Is God perchance a tyrant, or is He so indifferent to the welfare of one whom He sees placing himself in danger for the promotion of His glory by endeavoring to save souls for whom His Divine Son died, that He would condemn such a one to hellfire? Oh, no! Such a thought would be repugnant to the goodness and mercy of God."
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