<blockquote><h4>How the Public Health tyranny co-opted American politicians, media, scientists, doctors, religious leaders, and trusted influencers over a multi-decade campaign of infiltration and manipulation to convince Americans to embrace Public Health tyranny</h4></blockquote>Since early 2020, the Wall Street Journal has been pushing voices that claim that the only way to effectively deal with the public health "crisis" is to mimic Chinese Communist methods. Now we don't really know what happens in Communist China, but these are the methods that the Chinese Communists portray to the West as being used. Videos coming out to the West are all to be presumed as staged for Western consumption. Even if the activities recorded in the video are actually happening, they should be presumed to be released to shape your thinking.Examples of articles in the Wall Street Journal include articles that promoted stronger lockdowns, decried state by state difference which prevent an 'effect' nationwide totalitarian response, and so forth.Where does the Wall Street Journal get these ideas from?'Experts.'Which 'experts'?Public Health and infectious disease ‘experts.’&nbsp;<h4 style="margin-left:0;">Chinese Communists manage US public health 'experts' quoted by the Wall Street Journal as why Chinese tyranny is needed in the US</h4>Experts who amazingly all have the same thing to say. Rapid, total responses are urgently needed. China is a model on an effective response. The US will suffer so long as it does not mimic China. Give the federal government the power of nationwide public health controls. Etc. Etc.Some of these 'experts' are Americans. But some of those quoted by the Wall Street Journal actually receive money from the Communist Chinese government as part of their campaign to acquire assets in US academia and laboratories.I wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal in March 2020 decrying the use of the Wall Street Journal to promote tyranny as an obvious and effective idea to Americans.<a href="https://rabbismith.substack.com/p/shocking-how-the-chinese-communists?sd=pf#footnote-1">1</a>It was never printed, but you can read it right <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1666713525/734170a6_23a4_4d97_97f4_6e61bf95d7cf_pdf_693eb1c89d.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-west-is-misinterpreting-wuhans-coronavirus-progressand-drawing-the-wrong-lessons-11585074966">Here is the original WSJ article that prompted my letter.</a> The quoted "US based public health expert" mentioned in my letter is Ian Lipkin, a promoter of public health tyranny à la Chinese Communism.Notice how WSJ writer Jeremy Page pushes the idea that merely locking people down is not enough. What really works, he says, is that people have to be removed from their families to "makeshift hospitals and temporary quarantine centers."Notice this is not an 'opinion' piece but presented as 'news.' And, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jeremy-page">Jeremy Page</a> is not sitting in New York. He writing from China! He has been since 1997 - China and other communist countries. That's a quarter century of presenting Chinese Communist propaganda to the West, first through Reuters, then the Times of London, and now the Wall Street Journal.<a href="https://rabbismith.substack.com/p/shocking-how-the-chinese-communists?sd=pf#footnote-2">2</a>Notice he conjures up "many doctors and experts" creating the appearance of consensus. He quotes Chinese Communist doctors right out of Wuhan to increase the fear. He quotes the WHO as calling for the Chinese "comprehensive strategy."And, then he quotes American "Ian Lipkin, an infectious disease expert at Columbia University who visited China in January and has been advising health officials there."<a href="https://rabbismith.substack.com/p/shocking-how-the-chinese-communists?sd=pf#footnote-3">3</a> Meaning he is on the payroll of the Chinese Communists. Not surprisingly he "says the U.S. should immediately implement a nationwide stay-at-home policy and then move to a “stratified isolation system” until a vaccine is ready."I since cancelled my subscription to the Wall Street Journal.But, dear reader, Ian Lipkin is still at Columbia University.And Lipkin has deep Chinese Communist ties. Of course, since it involves 'public health' few pay attention.Let's see what's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/columbia-professor-lipkin-fauci-wuhan-lab-china">reported here</a> (emphasis added):<blockquote>Walter Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, who is known as a "virus hunter," thanked Fauci last year for publicly dismissing notions that the virus could have originated and leaked from the Wuhan lab."We deeply appreciate your efforts in steering and messaging," Lipkin wrote to Fauci on May 5, 2020, a day after he cast doubt on the lab leak theory.&nbsp;The "we" referenced in Lipkin's email to Fauci appears to include a Chinese government figure. As part of the message, Lipkin forwarded an email from Chen Zhu, China's former Minister of Health, who is currently a <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20210317">vice-chairperson</a> of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China. Li Zhanshu, a prominent figure in the Chinese Communist Party and a top advisor to China President Xi Jinping, chairs that governmental body.&nbsp;The entire contents of Zhu's message are unknown due to redactions made before the email's release to Buzzfeed News, which obtained Fauci's coronavirus communications through a Freedom of Information Act request. [My note: The US Government is redacting Chinese Communist correspondence to protect who?] The publication received and made public <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561-leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails">3,200 pages</a> of Fauci's email correspondence. (Lipkin's email begins on page 706).In addition to his government ties, Zhu also acts as president of the Red Cross Society of China, an entity that claims it is independent of state control. China's Red Cross, however, is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/world/asia/coronavirus-china-red-cross.html">funded</a> and directed by the Chinese government. The honorary president of China's Red Cross, Wang Qishan, is also a member of the Chinese Communist Party and assists President Xi Jinping on foreign issues.&nbsp;Lipkin and Zhu's relationship dates back to at least the early 2000s, when the pair had worked together on the SARS outbreak. At the time, Lipkin had <a href="https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/w-ian-lipkin-md-named-board-editors-american-society-microbiology-journal">served</a> as an intermediary between the World Health Organization and the Chinese government.&nbsp;In late January 2020, Lipkin <a href="http://chinaplus.cri.cn/recommended/1661/414773">traveled</a> back to China to study the coronavirus outbreak. As part of the effort, he <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-04-29/Chinese-U-S-scientists-join-hands-in-hunt-for-COVID-19-origins-Q513fTolIQ/index.html">partnered</a> with a Chinese research crew spearheaded by Lu Jiahai, a public health professor at Sun Yat-sen University. [My note: All professors are members of the Chinese Communist Party] This institution is <a href="http://en.moe.gov.cn/subordinate_universities/">subordinate</a> to China's Ministry of Education. Luo Jun, a Chinese Communist Party member, steers the university.Before returning to China, Lipkin's extensive history with prominent Chinese researchers and government officials had earned him several accolades from the communist body.In 2016, the Chinese government <a href="https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/ian-lipkin-receives-top-science-honor-china">presented</a> Lipkin with the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, the country's highest honor to foreign scientists. The ceremony was presided by President Xinping."I am deeply honored by this award," Lipkin said at the time. "It solidifies my relationship with dear friends and colleagues in the Chinese Academy of Science, Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health, and with the people of China." [My note: Meaning the oppressors of the people of China.]In early January of this year, Lipkin was presented with a medal at the Chinese Consulate of New York. China's Central Government, Central Military Commission, and State Council <a href="https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/china-honors-ian-lipkin">provided</a> the award.&nbsp;Lipkin has also <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1178317.shtml">praised</a> China's response and transparency early on in the coronavirus pandemic, despite indications that the Chinese government <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chinas-massive-cover-up-on-covid-still-happening-who-advisory-board-member">engaged in a cover-up</a>. &nbsp;Lipkin did not respond to a request for comment.&nbsp;</blockquote>So LIpkin is a deep Chinese Communist agent. He is at the center of the public health tyranny. He works with them, he is part of them. He promotes Chinese Communist ideas. He has been involved in promoting nearly every public health 'crisis' - AIDS, West Nile, MERS, SARS and COVID. And he trains generations of public health 'experts' at Columbia University in using public health to transform America into a public health dictatorship.And, Jeremy Page and the Wall Street Journal promote Lipkin as an expert and his agenda as 'news' and 'necessary.'<a href="https://rabbismith.substack.com/p/shocking-how-the-chinese-communists?sd=pf#footnote-4">4</a>Now we can understand why they want you debating Wuhan lab theories and whether Dr. F should be fired. Those are tiny superficial issues. Instead, the entire system needs to be dismantled, regardless of where their panic of choice is alleged to come from and regardless of who they put up in front as their poster boy.COVID has been the 'crisis' to move them far ahead in the tyranny. Lipkin and his many colleagues are still active laying the groundwork for the next 'crisis,' a variant, a new virus, a chemical/biological leak or attack, overpopulation, to further solidify the public health tyranny.While COVID may wane from the public spotlight temporarily, the psychological warfare terror infrastructure described in this article is much more developed now than it was in early 2020 working incessantly to prepare the American people for health care rationing and greater tyranny, may G-d Al-mighty save us.How long will Americans tolerate this?<figure class="image image-style-align-center"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1666715005/058c82a8_4f76_4f44_b391_7a6f1f321ef4_1024x608_aba3cc4822.png"></figure><a href="https://rabbismith.substack.com/p/shocking-how-the-chinese-communists?sd=pf#footnote-anchor-1">1</a> One challenge with the Wall Street Journal is that the same article will have a different headline in print and online.<a href="https://rabbismith.substack.com/p/shocking-how-the-chinese-communists?sd=pf#footnote-anchor-2">2</a> We don't have enough information from this research to know if Jeremy Page is an actual Chinese agent, but like all reporters in and about China, he is a tool in the disinformation campaign of the Chinese Communists. Not only did Page use as his resources for his article Chinese Communist doctors and scientists but the US 'expert' he quoted was someone in the Chinese Communist's employ. Obviously he did not get Lipkin's number randomly. It was the US counterpart needed for the article to promote the Chinese Communist public health solution. The other non-Chinese expert quoted by Page is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi_Sridhar">Devi Sridhar</a>. Sridhar is a Rhodes Scholar, whose first book was promoted by the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs publication as a 'must read book.' She wrote a book with Chelsea Clinton called Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? According to Wikipedia, "in the book, Sridhar and Clinton argue that health governance is global and that global institutions are necessary to protect citizens and improve health outcomes on a broad scale. In addition, global health governance is changing, with increasing recognition of the need for intergovernmental cooperation to combat health problems." She has worked with the Harvard Global Health Institute and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Hygiene_%26_Tropical_Medicine">London School of Hygiene &amp; Tropical Medicine</a> two leading public health tyranny operations. Sridhar serves on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum">World Economic Forum</a> Global Agenda Council on the Health Industry and does work with Wellcome Trust. In 2018 she 'predicted' a virus of animal origin would travel from China to the UK. She advocated for stronger UK lockdown measures and promotes testing as the way to "preserve your economy." For example, in a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7833051/">propaganda piece published in a 'scientific' journal devoted to public health ideology co-written with Chinese Communist public health colleagues</a>, she writes: "Early implementation of intense and sustained control measures is key to achieving a near normal social and economic life." She also opposes the idea of natural herd immunity. There appears to be some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Devi_Sridhar#RfC_Twitter_Posting_(mk2)">controversy about the content of her Wikipedia page</a> with attempts to keep out her more controversial statements. She is a militant for "Zero-COVID," tried to have that adopted as UK policy, called for "blanket international quarantine" and claimed that "the vaccines are 100% safe for children." How did Jeremy Page end up with her as a source when she is an anthropologist and her Wikipedia page shows no medicine, virology or immunology training? Because Jeremy Page is sticking with the 'experts' who will support the public health tyranny.<a href="https://rabbismith.substack.com/p/shocking-how-the-chinese-communists?sd=pf#footnote-anchor-3">3</a> Lipkin is also the same Lipkin referred to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/columbia-professor-lipkin-fauci-wuhan-lab-china">in this news piece</a>: "Walter Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, who is known as a "virus hunter," thanked Fauci last year for publicly dismissing notions that the virus could have originated and leaked from the Wuhan lab." See more further in this article.<a href="https://rabbismith.substack.com/p/shocking-how-the-chinese-communists?sd=pf#footnote-anchor-4">4</a> We reached out to the Wall Street Journal for comment on the issues raised in this article. The only response was that Jeremy Page no longer works for the Wall Street Journal and we should contact someone else at the Asia desk. That person also did not respond. While we don't know why Jeremy Page is no longer at the Wall Street Journal, the Wall Street Journal has not retracted nor apologized for his propaganda work in reshaping America.

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The Chinese Communist System is the Real Model of Public Health subverting religion and liberty

How the Chinese Communists used allied doctors and the Wall Street Journal to build tyranny in America

This Wednesday, the senior editor of NPR, Uri Berliner, announced that he would be resigning from the organization for which he has worked for the past 25 years.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">My resignation letter to NPR CEO <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@krmaher</a> <a href="https://t.co/0hafVbcZAK">pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK</a>— Uri Berliner (@uberliner) <a href="https://twitter.com/uberliner/status/1780610524411048183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>The day before he tendered his resignation, Berliner had been suspended from NPR for five days without pay, due to the criticism of his colleagues regarding a piece he wrote for The Free Press, excoriating NPR for its progressive bias.&nbsp;&nbsp;The apology as a weaponInstead of resigning, Berliner could have apologized, recanted, and moved on — as many have done before him, especially when they cannot afford to lose their source of income. The more people take this route, the harder it is to be the outlier, especially as that outlier can be ostracized not only at work but also in his entire social circle, and perhaps even among family and relatives.In an environment where backing down and repenting one's “unwoke” ideas is increasingly idolized, groupthink becomes swiftly embedded and harder to resist.According to Dr. James Lindsay, embedding groupthink is part of the plan, and the plan was hatched not in the United States but in China, where its finer points were tested on the native population before being exported in order to destabilize and weaken China's main rival on the world stage.<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe width="681" height="383" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MjQp-ZLu0oI" title="James Lindsay on Struggle Sessions: Have Chinese Political Warfare Tactics Influenced American DEI?" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Dr. Lindsay explains that the “crimes” of the DEI age are intentionally vague.<blockquote>They're training you to recognize your crimes on a predetermined set of terms … and their goal is to pressure you psychologically into figuring out in their terms how you harmed other people.</blockquote>He notes the extensive use of the word “harm," a typically vague term that is essentially impossible to prove or refute.When a person is accused by someone in the workplace or any other setting of having “harmed” someone, he continues, what happens is that the person's social milieu is “weaponized” against them. The person comes under tremendous psychological pressure to “just apologize” and restore the good name of the company, social group, family etc.<blockquote>This is psychological torture that's effected through manipulating the social environment around you to create psychological struggle so that you recognize crimes that are ill-defined in reality…It ends with you selling yourself out.</blockquote>&nbsp;DEI or DIE?Berliner is a prominent example of what is happening in workplaces in many places around the world, where those who dare to resist the prevailing worldview of the institution (even, or perhaps especially, if said institution is supposedly practicing even-handed, <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3950550-the-truth-about-nprs-funding-and-its-possible-future/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">government-sponsored</a> journalism) are aggressively weeded out.According to a recent representative <a href="https://freespeechunion.org/the-edi-tax-how-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-is-hobbling-british-businesses/?mc_cid=1c18d61fed&amp;mc_eid=33114c8522&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">survey</a> conducted in the U.K., training in DEI (referred to in Britain as EDIC—Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Climate) is endemic in the British workplace. 65% of those surveyed said that they had been obliged to undergo some form of diversity training by an employer.Among those who underwent DEI training, the majority reported that they had felt compelled to hide their true opinions of the content. Over one in five said they had “said what they ought to say rather than what they thought.” Among Black and Asian respondents, this proportion rose to almost one in three. Apparently, their caution was well-founded, as 36 percent of those surveyed said that they had witnessed staff being penalized for challenging DEI training and 12 percent said they had seen staff fired.Almost half of those surveyed who went through training said that what they were forced to learn conflicted with their values, and almost a third of respondents said that they had left a job because their employer adopted “woke” ideology. Here, too, the proportion was higher among minority groups and also among those who identify as LGBT.&nbsp;The survey did not examine the reasons why those identifying as LGBT should object to woke ideas, but recent activity on the part of organizations such as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/14/lie-of-gender-identity-spurred-founding-of-lgb-alliance-court-told" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LGB Alliance </a>against trans-promoting groups perhaps gives a clue to where they are coming from. While woke-trans is an ideology, many who call themselves L, G, or B do not allow their form of intimate attraction to define their entire identity and object to giving it so much prominence.The report's authors concluded that DEI is operating,<blockquote>… in effect, as a tax … Many ambitious employees and senior managers are leaving companies because of the excessive time they're expected to spend on these courses … Genuine diversity of thought is required for any business to thrive, but much EDIC training is having the opposite effect and embedding a new form of groupthink.</blockquote>According to Dr. Lindsay, this is exactly the plan being implemented by influential elements who have succeeded in permeating virtually all U.S. institutions, from the armed forces to the universities, corporations to smaller businesses, government local and federal — essentially, everywhere. Whether or not the United States will be next to adopt draconian thought-police laws like those now in place in Scotland remains to be seen.

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New survey shows DEI destroying workforce caliber, creating 'groupthink'

Made in China: How Mao's minions weaponize DEI to subvert America

By Alex NewmanAs the global war on educational liberty heats up, Johns Hopkins School of Education is launching a new “<a href="https://education.jhu.edu/edpolicy/policy-research-initiatives/homeschool-hub/">Homeschool Hub</a>” that has experts and advocates deeply concerned. Many say it is part of the escalating effort to bring homeschooling families under government control.&nbsp;The new entity is funded by advocates of taxpayer funding for private and home education. The United Nations education agency in recent years has called on governments to fund “non-state education providers” with tax money in order to impose “equity” goals, national testing regimes, “non-discrimination” schemes, and more.&nbsp;Leaders in the homeschooling movement and Christian education told The Newman Report that this scheme by Johns Hopkins posed a “clear and present danger” to home educators. From the information that is publicly available so far, those concerns do not appear unreasonable.&nbsp;Virtually the entire leadership of prominent national and state homeschooling organizations have been opposed to government funding of home education. In fact, homeschooling families and advocacy organizations have been a constant thorn in the side of “school choice” advocates seeking to get home educators hooked on tax funds.&nbsp;The reason why leaders of the homeschooling movement have been largely united on the issue is simple. They believe control and regulation by government will be the inevitable result of taxpayer money — especially since this is what the historical record shows. Concerns about dependency and expanding the size and scope of government exist, too.However, by bringing a new player into homeschooling world — a powerful voice backed by academic credentials and big money seeking “school choice” funding — critics are concerned about possible nefarious intentions. The goal seems to be, in part, to sideline and displace existing voices in the movement. &nbsp; &nbsp;On its website, the new “Homeschool Hub” styles itself the “one-stop shop for current information on homeschooling data, regulations, and research across the United States.” Supposedly, in-depth data and information on all fifty states will be made available on the site, though it has not been fully fleshed out yet.&nbsp;“As homeschooling continues to expand and evolve, we need a better understanding of this growing and diversifying education sector,” argued Dr. Angela Watson, Homeschool Hub creator and assistant professor of education. “We need policy based on facts, not historical stereotypes. My hope is that the Homeschool Hub will help fill these needs.”There are already multiple established and credible services offering exactly that kind of information online. These include the <a href="https://hslda.org/">Home School Legal Defense Association</a> (HSLDA), a powerhouse with detailed insights on the legal environment serving hundreds of thousands of member families that opposes government funding and control of homeschooling.&nbsp;Another major resource on homeschooling data and research is the <a href="https://www.nheri.org/">National Home Education Research Institute</a> (NHERI). Widely recognized as the top repository for research on homeschooling in the world, NHERI and its leader, Dr. Brain Ray, have long been seen as the “one-stop shop” for the latest news, data, research, and insight into homeschooling. Dr. Ray also opposes government funding and control of homeschooling.&nbsp;On its website, the Hub suggests that it will seek to displace those sources to help inform future regulation and policy on home education. “Our goal is to remove barriers to rigorous research, increase transparency, and expand awareness to encourage evidence-driven policy,” the site says without explaining what barriers it believes may exist to research or “evidence-driven policy.”&nbsp;As the far-left Washington Post strategically targets existing homeschooling leaders and institutions, the new hub aims to become “the leader” in the field of homeschooling research. “As homeschooling grows, the Homeschool Hub will serve as the leader in promoting rigorous homeschool research and responding to the need for more transparency from this growing sector,” the site added.&nbsp;When the establishment speaks of “transparency,” that is generally a dog whistle for increasing surveillance, control, data-gathering, and intrusions on privacy.The new hub’s website, citing unnamed supposed “critics,” also cites the alleged risks that “unregulated” home education might feature, including “indoctrination” or even that parents with “conservative Christian values” may seek to “isolate” their children. &nbsp;On April 25, the new Homeschool Hub, hosted at Johns Hopkins “Institute for Education Policy” and its “School of Education,” will be holding a major event on home education. Headlined “Beyond the Traditional Classroom: The Rise of Homeschooling and Its Impact on Education in America,” the event will formally launch the new hub, according to the announcement.Numerous high-profile panelists with no real ties to the homeschooling movement will participate. These include various university officials and faculty members, an adviser to the scandal-plagued World Bank, an “education reporter” at the viciously anti-homeschooling Washington Post, and a senior U.S. Department of Education official.&nbsp;Johns Hopkins, notable for pioneering transgender mutilation of children and other barbarism, is open about the fact that it is partnering with <a href="https://www.edchoice.org/">EdChoice</a>, a well-known and well-funded group seeking what it calls “school choice.” The movement, launched by legendary economist Milton Friedman, is among the leading advocates of tax funding for home education and private schools. &nbsp;Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins is based in Baltimore, Maryland, the first state that sought to create a state-run homeschooling “council” to supposedly speak for homeschooling families and advise authorities. The controversial plan, which became a lightning rod of criticism among home educators, was widely seen as a ploy to bring in regulation and control.&nbsp;<img class="image_resized" style="width:332px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.freedomproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3364780_1225x377_2500.jpg?resize=696%2C214&amp;ssl=1" alt="">With homeschooling becoming a major threat to the government’s “education” narrative and monopoly, it is no surprise to see the establishment work to crush it, co-opt it, or both. Tyrants across the United States and around the world are openly waging war on home education. As such, homeschool leaders and families are right to take the threat seriously.&nbsp;Originally published at <a href="https://www.freedomproject.com/2024/04/17/tnr20240417/">FreedomProject Media</a>.<a href="https://libertysentinel.org/author/admin/">Alex Newman</a> is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, and consultant who co-wrote the book “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.” He writes for diverse publications in the United States and abroad.

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University launching new 'Homeschool Hub;' experts and advocates deeply concerned

Johns Hopkins Homeschooling: Big Ed Seeking to Control Next Generation of Home Educators

<h2>Genetic engineering puts the natural world at risk</h2>Genetic engineering going from the lab, to the field, to the wildYou may have heard about the genetically modified mosquitos <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01070-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">released</a> in Florida to mitigate a Florida invasive species spreading zika and dengue, yet that is only one aspect of how synthetic biology (synbio) can affect nature. Jim Thomas of ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration) <a href="https://www.etcgroup.org/content/video-lab-field-forest" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spoke</a> about the potential dangers synbio may have on biodiversity and how we look after, conserve, share, and use the natural world.The video below, in which Thomas discusses the threats and new trends we'll have to start dealing with, gives us a window into a world that most of us may not be aware of, but should. His talk results from a discussion held by the Convention on Biological Diversity's Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group.&nbsp;Thomas brought forward the following three issues associated with the technology and nature:1. Tools of genetic engineering are being put out into the field. Previously, genetically engineered organisms would have been created in the lab. Now they can release genetically engineered viruses or organisms into the field that can genetically engineer other organisms out in the field. Examples he called "crazy" include a “project by the US defense establishment called ‘insect allies to genetically engineer plants’.” He expressed “worry about it being a potential bioweapon but also a big shift in terms of doing the genetic engineering in an uncontrolled environment and changing nature.”2. &nbsp;Synbio is being used for conservation applications. Previously, biodiversity and conservation were about protecting the natural world. Now synbio is being used for such projects as eradicating invasive species by releasing synthetic organisms or genetically engineering corals to withstand climate change. “The idea that conservation could be done by making synthetic ecosystems is a really big shift” he said.. . . . [N]ow you've got these proposals of turning the natural world into a kind of synthetic version of itself and that could really upturn how we protect the wild and natural world.&nbsp;3. Machines and algorithms, artificial intelligence, and robots are taking over genetic engineering.&nbsp;<blockquote>Large automated genetic engineering foundries called biofoundries that use artificial intelligence to make tens of thousands of organisms at a time, not from a human's mind but to design them using artificial intelligence, . . . &nbsp;and one day to go out into the environment. And, it raises a real safety question because, if you have something go wrong, you potentially don't understnd why it went wrong. With artificial intelligence, it's a bit of a black box. . . . If you're asking artificial intelligence to redesign nature and release that into the environment then you've got a big problem in terms of trying to understand safety and if something goes wrong understanding what went wrong.&nbsp;</blockquote>The group of experts, Thomas said, all “felt that there needs to be a process for scanning the horizon and monitoring and assessing new developments in genetic engineering. We began to set out what that should be . . .”<div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e7ES6ZYNTjA" title="From the lab to the field to the forest: synthetic biology" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>

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'The idea that conservation could be done by making synthetic ecosystems is a really big shift'

Danger ahead! Changing the natural world with genetic engineering and artificial intelligence

21 shades of…The University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) has unveiled not just one but twenty-one flags, in order to demonstrate “inclusion.”<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">In support of Pride Month, University Hospitals of North Midlands unveiled a new LGBTQ+ inclusion banner at Royal Stoke. The banner shows 21 different flags representing that everyone is welcome here at UHNM. Read more <a href="https://t.co/A541Z9pbRV">https://t.co/A541Z9pbRV</a> <a href="https://t.co/FCPGK7gEsI">pic.twitter.com/FCPGK7gEsI</a>— UHNM NHS Trust (@UHNM_NHS) <a href="https://twitter.com/UHNM_NHS/status/1668959772266168321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;For those who need to be brought up-to-date, here is a short guide to the flags:<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;"><li>Rainbow: Gay “pride” flag</li><li>Progress: “Pride” flag with the addition of stripes for trans, black, and brown people</li><li>Bisexual: Attracted to both sexes/genders</li><li>Pansexual: Attracted to “all genders”</li><li>Nonbinary: People who don't identify as either male or female</li><li>Transgender: People who identify as the opposite sex</li><li>Asexual: Those who feel no sexual attraction to anyone</li><li>Intersex: A genuine biological (and extremely rare) condition where someone has physical traits from both sexes</li><li>Gay</li><li>Lesbian</li><li>Polysexual: Attracted to “more than one gender”</li><li>Agender: Those who reject gender identity and “have none at all”</li><li>Androgyne: Those who don't look either masculine or feminine</li><li>Genderfluid: Unstable identity, veering between genders, multiple identities, and no identity at all</li><li>Genderqueer: Not following “gender norms”</li><li>Neutrosis: Lacking specific “gender identity”</li><li>Aromantic: Having little or no romantic feeling for others</li><li>Demisexual: Having sexual attraction to another only after becoming emotionally attached</li><li>Demiromantic: Having romantic attraction to another only after becoming emotionally attached</li><li>Polyamorous: Having relationships with multiple people simultaneously</li><li>Straight ally: None of the above, but “supports” them all</li></ol>&nbsp;Where's my flag?Commenting on UHNM's post, one X user wondered where “his” flag was.&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Which flag represents straight people?— Noah Matter (@matter_noah) <a href="https://twitter.com/matter_noah/status/1779823700235186397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Although the goal is “inclusion” and “making everyone feel welcome,” this apparently does not extend to those who are “straight” (i.e., heterosexual) and do not support the legitimization of traditionally non-standard lifestyles and practices.&nbsp;Fiddling while the hospitals burnOther X users wondered whether the money invested in this expression of “inclusion” might not have been better spent by the government, given the dire state of the UK's National Health Service.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Unbelievable. And in the city of my birth too. How much money was wasted on this? You should be treating the ill, not pushing this crazy activist rubbish.— Will C (@wjec77) <a href="https://twitter.com/wjec77/status/1780001702269128872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Let's hoist these flags everywhere!Lisa Thomson is the Director of Communications and Charity and Executive Sponsor of the LGBTQ+ Staff Network (earning around $100,000 per year as an NHS “Director of People"). She <a href="https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk/latest-uhnm-news/posts/2023/june/uhnm-unveil-lgbtqplus-inclusion-banner-at-royal-stoke/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stressed </a>that she was delighted at the initiative and hoped that others would adopt its message:<blockquote>It is fantastic to see our message “Everyone is Welcome Here” proudly displayed in the main entrance at Royal Stoke Hospital. Unveiling it in Pride month is really important as we need to actively show our support for colleagues from LGBTQ+ communities.&nbsp;Both the colleagues we work with and the people we care for come from a wide range of background [sic.] and represent many different communities. It is important we celebrate our differences and work together to ensure everyone is made to feel welcome. I the [sic.] look forward to seeing the banner up at County Hospital.</blockquote>&nbsp;Years of “gender oppression”?Other outraged X users focused their ire on UHNM's “gender” policy:<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">You stop chemically castrating gay boys yet?— Chris {∜} (@ChrisFourOhFour) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisFourOhFour/status/1780003381316141090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>In its <a href="https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk/media/9035/20230929-c64-supporting-transgender-individuals-foi-ref-196-2324-2-of-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Policy Document</a> “Supporting Transgender Individuals,” UHNM sets out its commitment to “promoting an inclusive, diverse workforce … supporting human rights … to ensure that people are not discriminated against or disadvantaged…"UHNM's attitude toward woke ideology is perhaps best encapsulated in clause 1.4 which states:<blockquote>When a person transitions as an adult, sometimes in middle age or later, the years of oppression of the person’s gender identity at any age may have contributed to a deteriorating mental state. The treatment is therefore life enhancing and even lifesaving and is not taken lightly; it is not a lifestyle choice.</blockquote>&nbsp;Is “Demi” code-language for “moral”?According to <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-demisexual-5082519" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">verywellmind</a>, the word “demisexuality” became more mainstream as far back as 2008. They describe a demisexual person as someone who,<blockquote>experiences sexual attraction only when they feel a true emotional bond with another person.</blockquote><a href="https://www.webmd.com/sex/what-demiromanticism-means" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WebMD</a> defines a “demiromantic” person as,<blockquote>someone who only develops romantic feelings for another person when they have a strong emotional connection to them.</blockquote>Whatever one's views on the other 19 items on the list, it is possible that the inclusion of two terms that signify a move toward traditional morality is a step in the right direction, if only to give young (and older) people a "woke" option of refusing close physical contact outside the bounds of marriage.

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