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Biden DOJ asks supreme court to toss abortion pill restrictions

Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women's Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, N.M., on June 15, 2022.
© Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty ImagesMifepristone (Mifeprex), one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women's Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, N.M., on June 15, 2022.
The argument comes as the court prepares to hear the most significant abortion-related case since it overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling that reversed regulations that made abortion pill mifepristone easier to obtain.

The case, to be heard on March 26, is the Supreme Court's most important abortion-related case since its decision in June 2022 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) and found that there was no right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution. The ruling returned the regulation of abortion to the states.

A medication abortion generally involves the use of mifepristone, which blocks the hormone progesterone, and misoprostol, which induces contractions. Mifepristone is also known as mifeprex and RU-486. Misoprostol, which is widely available because it has many medical uses, isn't an issue in the current litigation.

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Phoenix

Best of the Web: 'Deep genetic and cellular changes relating to detoxification' found in tissue of tobacco smokers

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It's no secret that smoking is extremely detrimental to health. Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemicals, including carcinogens, increasing the risk of cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.

A new study from the University of Chicago analyzed data from more than 900 samples of nine different human tissue types to understand just how deep the cellular and genetic damage from smoking goes. The research team generated epigenetic data to assess the effects of smoking on DNA methylation, or genetic locations where a handful of atoms can attach to DNA and turn off gene expression.

They found several new regions associated with smoking, including some that are shared across tissue types, suggesting that DNA methylation is part of the body's attempts to defend itself from the damaging effects of tobacco smoke.


Comment: Vaccines work by stimulating the body to protect itself against dead viruses, and yet they're considered to be a revolution in medicine; exercise 'damages' the muscle tissue creating a healthier physiology overall - the point being that perhaps there's more than one way to look at what's happening here.


Comment: For further insight into the potential health benefits of tobacco smoking, see: Also check out SOTT radio's:


Cupcake Pink

Global cancer phenomenon: UK, Japan, South Africa, among dozens of countries suffering 'mystery' spikes of tumors

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The above graph shows the change in cancer case rates around the world
Doctors across the world are sounding the alarm over a surging epidemic of young people being diagnosed with cancers more commonly associated with the elderly.

Between 1990 and 2019, cases of cancer in young people across the globe have increased by 79 percent and deaths have risen 28 percent.

Studies project diagnoses will continue to rise by 31 percent and deaths will rise by 21 percent in 2030.

Nearly every continent is experiencing an increase of various types of cancer in people under 50 years old, which is particularly problematic as the disease tends to be caught in later stages in this population because most doctors aren't trained to look for it in young people.

Comment: What with the experimental covid vaccines, lockdowns, as well as the overall worsening of living conditions for people - that is accelerating at a pace unseen for decades - it's likely that the appearance of 'turbo cancers', deaths of despair, and unusual outbreaks, is just the beginning: Leprosy cases surge in US, deaths from rabies double in Vietnam


Caduceus

Aussie health agency says no such thing as 'long COVID'

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© Nicholas Felix/peopleimages.comExperts said the term came into use after high volumes of people struggled to recover from COVID at once, saying the longer recovery period some experience after a viral illness would normally go unnoticed.
Follow the science — right out the door.

The term "long COVID" should be tossed aside like a stack of expired N95 masks — that's according to health experts in one country, who found that symptoms of those reportedly suffering a year on weren't any different than your typical virus, such as the flu.

Government-backed medical researchers in Australia say it's time to stop using the fear-inducing phrase, which became popular after high volumes of people testing positive for COVID-19 led to a surge in generally non-severe "virus fatigue symptoms" that would normally have gone unnoticed, South West News Service reported.

"We believe it is time to stop using terms like 'long COVID,'" said Dr. John Gerrard, Queensland's chief health officer, who oversaw the newly released study.

Comment: That is not to say the whole covid event was not without danger and damage. What is being obfuscated is the source of the damage.


Biohazard

Leprosy cases surge in US, deaths from rabies double in Vietnam

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What is leprosy and why is it resurfacing in the US?

Leprosy is caused by two different but similar bacteria - Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis - the latter having just been identified in 2008. Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is avoidable.

Transmission among the most vulnerable in society, including migrant and impoverished populations, remains a pressing issue.

This age-old neglected tropical disease, which is still present in more than 120 countries, is now a growing challenge in parts of North America.

Leprosy is beginning to occur regularly within parts of the southeastern United States. Most recently, Florida has seen a heightened incidence of leprosy, accounting for many of the newly diagnosed cases in the US.

Comment: Xinhua reports:
Vietnam records surging number of deaths from rabies

Vietnam recorded 22 rabies-related deaths in the first two months of this year, two times higher than the same period last year, the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Health Ministry said on Thursday.

The Central Highlands region remains a hot spot with five deaths in Dak Lak and Gia Lai provinces.

According to the department, the recent infection cases had a short incubation period of 10-15 days.

Many patients were children under five years old who were bitten by dogs and cats in the head and face areas, causing serious injuries around the central nervous system.

The health ministry has issued a warning about the increased risk of animal-to-human rabies infection because of the poor vaccination rate among dogs and cats.

The rate of vaccination against rabies has only reached almost 50 percent of the total dog and cat population. Some places reported only 10 percent, according to the ministry.


That may be so, but this has likely been the case for a while, so why the increase in infections? There have been more animal attacks? Children are more vulnerable?

Note that back in 2021: 3 children DEAD & 120 hospitalized in just 1 week due to Pfizer jab, Vietnam province suspends batch but 'may use it later on adults'


The ministry has advised people who raise dogs and cats to be fully vaccinated against rabies and re-vaccinated annually as recommended by the veterinary sector.

Those bitten by dogs and cats must visit medical facilities for examination, consultation and injection of rabies vaccine and anti-rabies serum, the ministry said.
As you can read below, the reasons for the outbreaks are varied, but there certainly seems to be a concerted effort by the establishment to create the conditions for some of them:


Bandaid

"Major Measles outbreak" reported in US as migrant shelters become infectious disease breeding grounds

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The radical progressives in the Biden administration are responsible for the greatest migrant invasion this nation has ever seen but also an emerging public health crisis, as millions of unvaccinated and undocumented illegals (some with infectious diseases) are being piled into migrant shelters nationwide like cattle.

Daily Mail reports the US is on the verge of a "major measles outbreak," with cases in the first two months of the year nearly eclipsing those in the previous year.
" ... as doctors warn many young physicians have never even seen a patient infected with the virus. Hundreds of people are already feared to be infected in California and Arizona after cases were confirmed in people in the states who visited local hospitals," the media outlet said.

Ambulance

Study finds covid patients who received ivermectin were better off

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Ivermectin recipients recovered faster than others.

People who tested positive for COVID-19 and took ivermectin as a treatment recovered faster than a comparison group, a new study found.

The time to self-reported recovery was a median of two days faster among the ivermectin recipients, according to the large UK study.

The quicker recovery period was statistically significant.

People who received ivermectin were also less likely to be hospitalized or die, with 1.6 percent of ivermectin recipients being hospitalized or dying versus 4 percent of the comparison group, which received typical care, which in the UK is largely focused on managing symptoms.

Comment: Dr. Pierre Kory's essay, referenced above, is worth reading in full. A small sample:
One year follow-up for a trial studying a treatment for an acute viral syndrome? In the middle of a viral pandemic which was supposedly a major global public health emergency? Why not publish the early treatment results and then the longer term follow-up later? Whatever.

Further, if they had found ivermectin to be effective (which they did, more on this below), they were morally and professionally and ethically obligated to alert the world immediately. Just as Oxford had done via press release when the analysis of their trial on corticosteroids was completed in June of 2020. At that time, Oxford alerted the world immediately via press release such that corticosteroids became the standard of care overnight (something which me and the FLCCC had earlier advocated for in Senator Ron Johnson's U.S Senate hearing in early May 2020).

Conversely, if ivermectin was not effective, I am sure Butler would have been overjoyed to please his paymasters by blasting that finding. It simply would have made PRINCIPLE the 7th "Big RCT" which supposedly found that ivermectin was ineffective. It would have served as "the final nail in the coffin" of ivermectin advocates like myself.

So why the silence, secrecy, and delay around making the results of their ivermectin trial more widely known?

My hypothesis (and really the only rationale that makes sense) was that they obtained an immensely positive result for ivermectin and thus they needed a lot more time to "cook the books" (i.e. manipulate the data or its presentation) so that they could conclude ivermectin was ineffective.

Another contributing reason for the long delay was likely due to the amount of attention and controversy around ivermectin at the time they first completed the study, so they instead "laid low" and allowed a huge amount of time and attention on ivermectin to pass before taking the insane actions which I will now describe below.



Syringe

Study finds majority of patients with long COVID were vaccinated

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Mass vaccination and available antiviral treatments have not prevented vaccinated individuals from experiencing lingering COVID-19 symptoms.

A recent study found that the majority of patients who suffered from long COVID during a time when vaccines and antiviral treatments were widely available were vaccinated.

In the observational study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, researchers interviewed 390 people in Thailand who contracted COVID-19 during the "fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic" when the omicron variant was dominant. Patients were followed by phone from three months after their diagnosis for a year to monitor their physical condition, mental health, sleep disturbances, and quality of life.

Comment: Trying to tease out what's going on with Long Covid is a puzzle, but one thing that consistently shown is that it seems to be more correlated with those who got the vaccine rather than those who didn't. If the syndrome is in fact caused by the spike protein, it's easy to see why.

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Covid causes drop in IQ - study

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The cognitive decline could reach up to nine points in some cases, scientists have claimed

The long-term consequences of Covid-19 could include decreased cognitive abilities and memory deficiency, a new large-scale study has found.

According to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, patients who had recovered from coronavirus symptoms had a cognitive deficit equivalent to three IQ points compared with those who had never been diagnosed with it. Meanwhile, study participants with unresolved persistent symptoms had an IQ decline of six points.

Comment:
1) "According to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday" This takes one to Thursday February 29, 2024. The title is; Cognition and Memory after Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample
The same day a communication appeared in the same journal:
Prospective Memory Assessment before and after Covid-19 and they write:
In a group of Norwegian participants assessed between March 2020 and April 2023, participant-reported memory function, as scored on the EMQ [Everyday Memory Questionnaire], was numerically worse at several time points up to 36 months after a positive SARS-CoV-2 test than after a negative test.
2) Other interesting studies:
Hippocampus essential for recognition memory, study shows (2015)
'Spikeopathy': COVID-19 Spike Protein Is Pathogenic, from Both Virus and Vaccine mRNA (Source: National Library of Medicine, August 2023)
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces cognitive deficit and anxiety-like behavior in mouse via non-cell autonomous hippocampal neuronal death (Source: Nature, March 2022)

3) Dr. Michael Nehls: How Changes in Our Brain Make Us More Susceptible to Indoctrination
The German researcher Dr. Michale Nehls explains in the following short clip what the hippocampus is and how it functions:

For the full interview with transcript, see this page from The Epoch Times which discusses the content of his recently published book The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom
For similar interviews se this episode of The Highwire with Del Bigtree, or this episode of The Health Ranger with Mike Adams on Brighteon.com,

4)There have been studies that explore the relationship between hippocampus and various conditions. Below are a few examples:
Psychopathy and the Hippocampus
The degree of subjects' psychopathy was studied using the Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R) and an inverse correlation was found - the smaller the hippocampi, the more severe the degree of psychopathy. The strongest correlations were found in the posterior hippocampus. The posterior hippocampus is know to participate in processes, such as conditioning and forming associations. This is the first study to date to find structure-function (or structure-malfunction) correlation in terms of degree of psychopathy.
Birds in Captivity Lose Hippocampal Mass (Does this also happens for humans?)
Caged birds may still sing, but being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study. The hippocampus is the part of the brain involved in spatial learning and memory tasks.
Study shows recurrent depression shrinks area of brain responsible for forming new memories
A study published in Molecular Psychiatry today has proved once and for all that recurrent depression shrinks the hippocampus - an area of the brain responsible for forming new memories - leading to a loss of emotional and behavioural function.
Hormones, Hysterectomy and the Hippocampus (Why is that no being highlighted when they advertise for gender surgery?)
In the current study, removal of the ovaries and the associated long-term estradiol deprivation made the hippocampus hypersensitive to ischemic stressors and induced a myriad of events leading to significant hippocampal CA3 cell damage and cell death. The long term estradiol deprivation also led to increased amyloid production and associated neurodegeneration. As one might expect, damage and disruption to the hippocampus, the brain's memory center, was associated with the animal's ability to learn, remember and function.
How a Mother's Love Changes a Child's Brain (The attack on the traditional family is hardly a plus?)
Previous animal research showed that early maternal support has a positive effect on a young rat's hippocampal growth, production of brain cells and ability to deal with stress. Studies in human children, on the other hand, found a connection between early social experiences and the volume of the amygdala, which helps regulate the processing and memory of emotional reactions. Numerous studies also have found that children raised in a nurturing environment typically do better in school and are more emotionally developed than their non-nurtured peers.

Brain images have now revealed that a mother's love physically affects the volume of her child's hippocampus. In the study, children of nurturing mothers had hippocampal volumes 10 percent larger than children whose mothers were not as nurturing. Research has suggested a link between a larger hippocampus and better memory.
More than 150 comparative studies and articles on mask ineffectiveness and harms
"The rebreathing of our exhaled air will without a doubt create oxygen deficiency and a flooding of carbon dioxide. We know that the human brain is very sensitive to oxygen depravation. There are nerve cells for example in the hippocampus, that can't be longer than 3 minutes without oxygen - they cannot survive. The acute warning symptoms are headaches, drowsiness, dizziness, issues in concentration, slowing down of the reaction time - reactions of the cognitive system. However, when you have chronic oxygen depravation, all of those symptoms disappear, because you get used to it. But your efficiency will remain impaired and the undersupply of oxygen in your brain continues to progress. We know that neurodegenerative diseases take years to decades to develop. If today you forget your phone number, the breakdown in your brain would have already started 20 or 30 years ago...The child needs the brain to learn, and the brain needs oxygen to function. We don't need a clinical study for that. This is simple, indisputable physiology. Conscious and purposely induced oxygen deficiency is an absolutely deliberate health hazard, and an absolute medical contraindication."
Scientific evidence suggests the vaccine-autism link can no longer be ignored (From 2013, so this is old, but has been ignored nevertheless.)
The studies also show that children from countries with the highest ASD appear to have a much higher exposure to Aluminum from vaccines. The study points out that several prominent milestones of brain development coincide with major vaccination periods for infants. These include the onset of synaptogenesis (birth), maximal growth velocity of the hippocampus and the onset of amygdala maturation.
Did COVID-19 escape Fort Detrick vaccine trial? Evidence that virus originated in US bioweapons lab

5) To maintain or even improve the function of the brain and hippocampus, there are several possibilities as indicated by these articles:


Biohazard

Alaskapox claims 'elderly' man as first known death, virus first discovered in 2015

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© Mark Smith/AlamyFILE: Water vole. The virus recently discovered in Alaska is transmitted from small mammals and symptoms normally include a rash and muscle pain.
An elderly man has died from Alaskapox, the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus, Alaskan state health officials have said.

The man, who lived in the remote Kenai Peninsula, was hospitalised in November last year and died in late January, according to a bulletin issued last week by public health officials.

The man was undergoing cancer treatment and had a suppressed immune system because of the drugs, which may have contributed to the severity of his illness, the bulletin said. It described him as elderly but didn't provide his age.

Comment: Normally such a virus may be of little concern, however in the 'new normal', with over half of Western populations immunocompromised by the experimental covid jabs, concerns over viral interactions and mutations, leaky Western bioweapons labs, and so on, it does give one pause for thought. More so because one can't help but notice how a few of the symptoms are shared with the black death itself, and which is also believed to be connected to smallpox - that said, that's where the similarities appear to end: For reference: New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection

Outbreak News:
On today's show, we'll dive into the ABC's of Alaskapox with Bradley Perkins, MD. Dr. Perkins is the Chief Medical Officer at Karius.

In addition, he is a former top CDC official who led the anthrax bioterrorism investigation. He was also a leading expert in the more recent monkeypox, or mpox outbreak.