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12-2 Danny Sheehan - CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 2020
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Daniel Sheehan is a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School–trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. For close to five decades, Danny’s work as a Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and College and Law School Professor has helped expose the structural sources of injustice in our country and around the world.
Daniel has protected the fundamental and inalienable rights of our world’s citizens and has elucidated a compelling and inspiring vision for the future direction of our human family. Dan’s dedication to this vision and his work have placed him at the center of many of the most important legal cases and social movements of our generation.
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In 2016, LPLP began organizing around the Dakota Access Pipeline. Our Lakota staff were on the ground at Oceti Sakowin camp from its inception in April 2016 to the final days in February, 2017. Daniel represented Chase Iron Eyes who faced felony charges related to the #NoDAPL movement. Although Chase’s case did not go to trial, we are building an online archive to make public the strategy and details of our necessity and treaty defenses. To learn more about the work of Lakota People’s Law Project, visit lakotalaw.org
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2-3:30 Cynthia Kneen, "Shambhala Warrior Training" Parts 9 and 10 of 12
'How to Manifest Courage, Authenticity & Gentleness in Every Situation of Your Life'
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TUESDAY NIGHT, APRIL 28
12-12:30 David Quammen: ‘Shaking the Viral Tree’
By Maria April 21, 2020
An Interview by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
In his 2012 book Spillover, ‘Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic’
the science writer David Quammen predicted another Corona Virus outbreak. At the end of March 2020 the editor of Emergence Magazine, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee talked with Quammen who was sheltering in place in his Bozeman, Montana, home.
Their conversation explored the ways in which viruses are embedded in the same systems of ecology and evolutionary biology that we humans are. As we disrupt wild ecosystems and shake these viruses free, and experience the consequences, COVID-19 offers an opportunity to re-imagine our relationship with the natural world.
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is a filmmaker, musician and executive editor of Emergence Magazine. David Quammen is an award winning science writer, explorer and author of four books of fiction and eight of non-fiction, including ‘Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic;’ and ‘The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life.’
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12:30-1:30 The Gary Null Show – PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION: The case against our federal health agencies and its handling of COVID19 pandemic – 04.24.20
Kent Heckenlively is an attorney with a jurist doctoral degree, a science teacher and a founding contributing editor of Age of Autism, a daily web newsletter about the autism epidemic that investigates autism as an environmentally induced and treatable illness. In the past he has worked for US Senator Pete Wilson from California and the US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco. His daughter Jacqueline has severe autism due to a vaccine injury. Kent is the co-author with Dr. Judy Mikovits of the recent book “Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science” — which recounts Dr. Mikovits’ career over the past four decades working with the cutting edge of viral research both within and outside of government. Earlier Kent authored “Inoculated: How Science Lost its Soul in Autism,” which tells the story of how vaccines have become a 30 year disaster since the passage of Ronald Reagan’s 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that gave vaccine makers immunity from vaccine injuries.
Dr. Judy Mikovits has been research scientists for almost four decades specializing in immunology and virology, drug development and epigenetics. Her dedication saw her rise to become the director of the National Cancer Institute’s laboratory for Antiviral Drug Mechanisms. Later she went into private industry to direct the cancer biology program at EpiGenX Pharmaceuticals in California and was drawn to investigate the molecular causation of autism, chronic fatigue syndrome and immunological inflammation in disease. She holds a BA from the University of Virginia and received her doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from George Washington University. Judy’s and Kent’s website is plaguethebook.com
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1:30-2:30 The Gary Null Show – The Empty Celebration of Earth Day – 04.22.20
Fifty years ago I and other conservationists and public health advocates were thrilled with the idea of an annual Earth Day celebration to honor our planet. At that time, I had more requests from television and radio to speak about health, nutrition and the early natural food movement. I had never received before any requests to speak about the environment, although I was an organic farmer and taught organic and sustainable agricultural methods at my Fertile Earth Farm outside of New Paltz in the Hudson Valley.
Despite the success of the early Earth Day events, there seemed to be very little national interest in deeper environmental issues. Even in those days, I largely spoke to deaf ears. Unlike the worldwide consciousness growing around civil and women’s rights, activism advocating for stewardship of the Earth, its resources and wildlife was still in its infancy. I was hoping these various efforts might join together. That included going vegetarian, live through the principle of being in harmony with the natural world and conscientiously simplifying our lives. Rather than focus on a future to purchase and hoard more stuff, explore what other cultures do to connect with our human faculties that foster compassion, kindness, and a shared commons. I believed we should be oracles of peace rather than ambassadors of political hegemony, oppression and power.
Yet how foolish, naive and delusional I was! Now jumping forward fifty years, where does humanity linger today? Last year was the year of Greta Thunberg, a teenager who raised hell, got into the faces of the world’s leaders and demanded environmental priority over profits. Despite her sincerity and her activism’s success in mobilizing the global youth, it turned out to be a rather futile gesture. We are still faced with powerful laissez faire opportunists behind Green capitalism exemplified by the elite such as Al Gore. With very few exceptions, I no longer believe the world governments, and certainly not private industry nor the mainstream media, will effectively cause anything to change to the degree necessary to reach a realistic level of ecological sustainability…
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, APRIL 29
12-2 Dave Emory, 'For the Record #1111 and FTR #1112 Update on the Alleged “Suicide” of Iris Chang and the Destabilization of China and “BioWarfare-Psy-Op” Against China?'
This description encompasses material for two programs. Following up on FTR #‘s 1107 and 1108, we highlight a San Francisco Chronicle article about the alleged suicide of Iris Chang, a suggestive, important detail was noticed by a sharp-eyed listener/reader. A detail about the physical circumstances surrounding Iris’s “suicide” suggests–strongly–that she did not pull the trigger herself. Her body was discovered by a Santa Clara County Water District Employee. Someone who had fired a .45 caliber black powder weapon into her mouth would be unlikely to have her hands crossed in her lap and with the revolver on her left leg. This sounds like it may well an arranged crime scene. “. . . . He noticed condensation on the windows, peered inside and saw Iris in the driver’s seat with her hands crossed in her lap. The revolver lay on her left leg. . . .” Someone who had fired a.45 caliber black powder weaponinto her mouth would be unlikely to have her hands crossed in her lap and with the revolver on her left leg. This sounds like it may well an arranged crime scene.
Transitioning to discussion about biological warfare, we discuss Unit 731–a Japanese chemical and biological warfare unit that committed egregious atrocities in China during World War II. We note: ” . . . . the U.S. Government secretly absorbed Unit 731, moving most of its scientists, personnel, and documents to U.S. military research centers like Fort Dietrick in the Maryland countryside. All information about its activities, including biological warfare atrocities, and horrific experiments on fully conscious victims, was withheld by Washington from the American and Japanese public, and from the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals. All Unit 731’s records held by the U.S. Government are still top secret. . . .”
In connection with the coronavirus, we note that U.S. scientists had synthesized a virus of that type in a laboratory by 2008–an virus that infected mice, as well as human tissues. The synthetic coronavirus was described, in part, as follows: ” . . . . Here, we report the design, synthesis, and recovery of the largest synthetic replicating life form, a 29.7‑kb bat severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronavirus (Bat-SCoV), a likely progenitor to the SARS-CoV epidemic. Synthetic recombinant bat SARS-like coronavirus is infectious in cultured cells and in mice. . . .”
Altogether curious in the context of the stridently alarmist coverage of the coronavirus outbreak is the fact that Thai doctors have apparently successfully treated the virus with a drug cocktail involving some common anti-virals. “. . . . A Chinese woman infected with the new coronavirus showed a dramatic improvement after she was treated with a cocktail of anti-virals used to treat flu and HIV, Thailand’s health ministry said Sunday. The 71-year-old patient tested negative for the virus 48 hours after Thai doctors administered the combination, doctor Kriengsak Attipornwanich said during the ministry’s daily press briefing. ‘The lab result of positive on the coronavirus turned negative in 48 hours,’ Kriengsak said. . . . The doctors combined the anti-flu drug oseltamivir with lopinavir and ritonavir, anti-virals used to treat HIV, Kriengsak said, adding the ministry was awaiting research results to prove the findings. . . .”
Reported by both Agence France Presse and Reuters–two major wire services–this (apparently successful) therapeutic regime has gone unreported in U.S. media, so far.
The lifting of a moratorium on the testing of viruses such as the SARS and MERS coronaviruses was lifted at the end of December of 2017, a little more than two years before the outbreak occurred. A number of key points of inquiry in a post by Dr. Joseph Mercola should be scrutinized:
1.–As mentioned the moratorium on the testing of this virus was lifted a little less than two years after the outbreak. ” . . . . For starters, a 2014 NPR article32 was rather prophetic. It discusses the October 2014 U.S. moratorium on experiments on coronaviruses like SARS and MERS, as well as influenza virus, that might make the viruses more pathogenic and/or easy to spread among humans. The ban came on the heels of ‘high-profile lab mishaps’ at the CDC and ‘extremely controversial flu experiments’ in which the bird flu virus was engineered to become more lethal and contagious between ferrets. The goal was to see if it could mutate and become more lethal and contagious between humans, causing future pandemics. . . . ”
2.–Note that as the ban was lifted, it was known that a virus of the type now infecting China had been developed in a U.S. lab. This appears to be the same virus mentioned in the 2008 post mentioned above. That link had been temporarily broken, as mentioned in FTR #1112. It has since been restored. ” . . . . The federal moratorium on lethal virus experiments in the U.S. was lifted at the end of December 2017,38 even though researchers announced in 2015 they had created a lab-created hybrid coronavirus similar to that of SARS that was capable of infecting both human airway cells and mice. . . .”
3.–China had opened a level 4 laboratory to study the world’s most dangerous pathogens in January of 2018 (one month after the U.S. resumed testing of lethal viruses.) ” . . . . In January 2018, China’s first maximum security virology laboratory (biosecurity level 4) designed for the study of the world’s most dangerous pathogens opened its doors — in Wuhan.41,42 . . . .”
4.–A couple of months before the outbreak in China, there was a (frankly suspicious) exercise in New York that was not only a harbinger of what was about to happen but may have been used to journalistically frame coverage of the Wuhan virus. The significance of this, in our opinion, is the “psychological warfare” component–the utter hysteria gripping the world (and driving down markets) may be driven, in part, by the suggestion placed in people’s minds by this exercise. Given that roughly nine hundred Chinese have succumbed to the coronavirus and almost ten times that number have died from the flu in the U.S. (a country with a population roughly one fifth the size of China’s) it would make more sense for people to be beside themselves over the flu and/or the prospects of traveling to, or receiving travelers from, the U.S. that is not the case. We also note, in this context, that the demographic of people succumbing to the coronavirus is similar to the demographic of most flu fatalities: older people with other infections and/or chronically ill patients. In other words, people with weakened immune systems. ” . . . . Equally curious is the fact that Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored a novel coronavirus pandemic preparedness exercise October 18, 2019, in New York called ‘Event 201.’46 The simulation predicted a global death toll of 65 million people within a span of 18 months.47 As reported by Forbes December 12, 2019:48 ‘The experts ran through a carefully designed, detailed simulation of a new (fictional) viral illness called CAPS or coronavirus acute pulmonary syndrome. This was modeled after previous epidemics like SARS and MERS.’ Sounds exactly like NCIP, doesn’t it? Yet the new coronavirus responsible for NCIP had not yet been identified at the time of the simulation, and the first case wasn’t reported until two months later. . . . ”
5.–As noted above, press coverage of the Chinese outbreak suggests that media outlets may well have been briefed about “Event 201.” ” . . . . Forbes also refers to the fictional pandemic as “Disease X” — the same designation used by The Telegraph in its January 24, 2020, video report, “Could This Coronavirus be Disease X?“49 which suggests that media outlets were briefed and there was coordination ahead of time with regard to use of certain keywords and catchphrases in news reports and opinion articles. . . .”
6.–Also of significance is the fact that Johns Hopkins–the co-sponsor of “Event 201,” is at the epicenter of national security related biomedical research. FOIA requests on such information are shielded: ” . . . . Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is the biggest recipient of research grants from federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Department of Defense and has received millions of dollars in research grants from the Gates Foundation.50 In 2016, Johns Hopkins spent more than $2 billion on research projects, leading all U.S. universities in research spending for the 38th year in a row.51 If research funded by federal agencies, such as the DOD or HHS is classified as being performed ‘in the interest of national security,’ it is exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.52 Research conducted under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is completely shielded from FOIA requests by the public.53 Additionally, agencies may deny FOIA requests and withhold information if government officials conclude that shielding it from public view ‘protects trade secrets and commercial or financial information which could harm the competitive posture or business interests of a company.’ . . .”
Next, we note that Steve Bannon–at the epicenter of the anti-China movement–is professionally aligned with an exiled Chinese billionaire and a wealthy Texas hedge fund manager positioned to make a great deal of money from a downturn in China’s markets.
Bannon is also very close to the accomplished investor billionaire Robert Mercer, of Cambridge Analytica fame. In our next program, we will discuss Mercer’s Reinaissance Technologies hedge fund and its investment position with regard to a pharmaceutical giant that may profit from the coronavirus outbreak.
Supplement to FTR #1111: Is Coronavirus A “Biological Warfare Psy-Op?”
In FTR #1111, we covered disturbing evidence that the coronavirus outbreak in China is a “biological warfare psy-op,” part of the destabilization of China. When we recorded the program, articles were coming in as the broadcast was being prepared. In our haste we neglected to include a very important section of a post by Joseph Mercola. Other key features of the post are in FTR #1111: Dr. Mercola noted that: ” . . . . As mentioned, a number of reports raise questions about the source of the 2019-nCoV [The Chinese coronavirus–D.E.]. For starters, a 2014 NPR article32 was rather prophetic. It discusses the October 2014 U.S. moratorium on experiments on coronaviruses like SARS and MERS, as well as influenza virus, that might make the viruses more pathogenic and/or easy to spread among humans. The ban came on the heels of ‘high-profile lab mishaps’ at the CDC and ‘extremely controversial flu experiments’ in which the bird flu virus was engineered to become more lethal and contagious between ferrets. The goal was to see if it could mutate and become more lethal and contagious between humans, causing future pandemics. . . . However, for the past decade there have been red flags raised in the scientific community about biosecurity breaches in high containment biological labs in the U.S. . . . The federal moratorium on lethal virus experiments in the U.S. was lifted at the end of December 2017, 38 even though researchers announced in 2015 they had created a lab-created hybrid coronavirus similar to that of SARS that was capable of infecting both human airway cells and mice. . . .”
In our haste we neglected to include a very important section of a post by Joseph Mercola. Other key features of the post are in FTR #1111:
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2-2:30 Chris Hedges, "On Contact"
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THURSDAY NIGHT, APRIL 30
12-1 Alan Watts, "The Power of Space" #2 of 4
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1-2 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey.
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2-3:30 Arundhati Roy, "The Pandemic is a Portal"
(Streamed live on April 23, 2020)
An online teach-in with Arundhati Roy. Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. http://www.haymarketbooks.org
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In her latest essay, “The Pandemic Is a Portal” — from her forthcoming Haymarket Books publication ‘Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.‘ — Arundhati Roy writes: What is this thing that has happened to us? It’s a virus, yes. In and of itself it holds no moral brief. But it is definitely more than a virus. Some believe it’s God’s way of bringing us to our senses. Others that it’s a Chinese conspiracy to take over the world. Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality,” trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. Join the acclaimed author to discuss this essay and her recent writings on the existential threat posed to Indian democracy by an emboldened Hindu nationalism, India’s new citizenship laws that discriminate against Muslims and marginalized communities and could create a crisis of statelessness on a scale previously unknown, and the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism.
Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels ‘The God of Small Things,’ for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.’ A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, ‘My Seditious Heart,’ was recently published by Haymarket Books. Her next book from Haymarket books, ‘Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.’ will be published September 1.
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she also teaches in the Programs in Law and Public Affairs, and in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, and spent much of her youth in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago. She is the author of several books, including ‘Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry’ and ‘Breathe: A Letter to My Sons.’ She lives outside Philadelphia with her two sons, Freeman Diallo Perry Rabb and Issa Garner
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