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This narcissistic man was born into Canadian royalty and never had to work in his life. He could have pursued a few degrees and learned stuff. Instead, he became a drama teacher. He is not intelligent enough to realize that he is hated and scorned all over Canada and the world. We are sick of this petulant fart. Lou
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, JAN 09, 2023
Authored by Professor Josh Guetzkow via Jackanapes Junction (some emphasis ours),
SUMMARY
- CDC’s VAERS safety signal analysis based on reports from Dec. 14, 2020 – July 29, 2022, for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines shows clear safety signals for death and a range of highly concerning thrombo-embolic, cardiac, neurological, hemorrhagic, hematological, immune-system and menstrual adverse events (AEs) among U.S. adults.
- There were 770 different types of adverse events that showed safety signals in ages 18+, of which over 500 (or 2/3) had a larger safety signal than myocarditis/pericarditis.
- The CDC analysis shows that the number of serious adverse events reported in less than two years for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is 5.5 times larger than all serious reports for vaccines given to adults in the US since 2009 (~73,000 vs. ~13,000).
- Twice as many mRNA COVID-19 vaccine reports were classified as serious compared to all other vaccines given to adults (11% vs. 5.5%). This meets the CDC’s definition of a safety signal.
- There are 96 safety signals for 12-17 year-olds, which include: myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell’s Palsy, genital ulcerations, high blood pressure and heart rate, menstrual irregularities, cardiac valve incompetencies, pulmonary embolism, cardiac arrhythmias, thromboses, pericardial and pleural effusion, appendicitis and perforated appendix, immune thrombocytopenia, chest pain, increased troponin levels, being in intensive care, and having anticoagulant therapy.
- There are 66 safety signals for 5-11 year-olds, which include: myocarditis, pericarditis, ventricular dysfunction and cardiac valve incompetencies, pericardial and pleural effusion, chest pain, appendicitis & appendectomies, Kawasaki’s disease, menstrual irregularities, vitiligo, and vaccine breakthrough infection.
- The safety signals cannot be dismissed as due to “stimulated,” exaggerated, fraudulent or otherwise artificially inflated reporting, nor can they be dismissed due to the huge number of COVID vaccines administered. There are several reasons why, but the simplest one is this: the safety signal analysis does not depend on the number of reports, but whether or not some AEs are reported at a higher rate for these vaccines than for other non-COVID vaccines. Other reasons are discussed in the full post below.
- In August 2022, the CDC told the Epoch Times that the results of their safety signal analysis “were generally consistent with EB [Empirical Bayesian] data mining [conducted by the FDA], revealing no additional unexpected safety signals.” So either the FDA’s data mining was consistent with the CDC’s method—meaning they “generally” found the same large number of highly alarming safety signals—or the signals they did find were expected. Or they were lying. We may never know because the FDA has refused to release their data mining results.
INTRODUCTION
Finally! Zachary Stieber at the Epoch Times managed to get the CDC to release the results of its VAERS safety signal monitoring for COVID-19 vaccines, and they paint a very alarming picture (see his reporting and the data files here, or if that is behind a paywall then here). The analyses cover VAERS reports for mRNA COVID vaccines from the period from the vaccine rollout on December 14, 2020 through to the end of July, 2022. The CDC admitted to only having started its safety signal analysis on March 25, 2022 (coincidentally 3 days after a lawyer at Children’s Health Defense wrote to them reminding them about our FOIA request for it).
[UPDATE: T Coddington left a link in comments to a website where he made the data in the Excel files more accessible.]
Like me, you might be wondering why the CDC waited over 15 months before doing its first safety signal analysis of VAERS, despite having said in a document posted to its website that it would begin in early 2021—especially since VAERS is touted as our early warning vaccine safety system. You might also wonder how they could insist all the while that the COVID-19 vaccines are being subjected to the most rigorous safety monitoring the world has ever known. I’ll come back to that later. First I’m going to give a little background information on the analysis they did (which you can skip if you’re up to speed) and then describe what they found.
BACKGROUND ON SAFETY SIGNAL ANALYSIS
Back in June 2022, the CDC replied to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the safety signal monitoring of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS)—the one it had said it was going to do weekly beginning in early 2021. Their response was: we never did it. Then a little later they said they had been doing it from early on. But by August, 2022, they had finally gotten their story straight, saying that they actually did do it, but only from March 25, 2022 through end of July. You can get up to speed on that here.
The analysis they were supposed to do uses what’s called proportional reporting ratios (PRRs). This is a type of disproportionality analysis commonly used in pharmacovigilance (meaning the monitoring of adverse events after drugs/vaccines go to market). The basic idea of disproportionality analysis is to take a new drug and compare it to one or more existing drugs generally considered safe. We look for disproportionality in the number of adverse events (AEs) reported for a specific AE out of the total number of AEs reported (since we generally don’t know how many people take a given drug). We then compare to existing drugs considered safe to see if there is a higher proportion of particular adverse events reported for the new drug compared to existing ones. (In this case they are looking at vaccines, but they still use PRR even though they generally have a much better sense of how many vaccines were administered.)
There are many ways to do disproportionality analysis. The PRR is one of the oldest. Empirical Bayesian data mining, which was supposed to be done on VAERS by the FDA, is another. The PRR is calculated by taking the number of reports for a given adverse event divided by the total number of events reported for the new vaccine or the total number of reports. It then divides that by the same ratio for one or more existing drugs/vaccines considered safe. Here is a simple formula:
So for example, if half of all adverse events reported for COVID-19 vaccines and the comparator vaccine(s) are for myocarditis, then the PRR is 0.5/0.5 = 1. If one quarter of all AEs for the comparator vaccine are for myocarditis, then the PRR is 0.5/0.25 = 2.
Traditionally, for a PRR to count as a safety signal, the PRR has to be 2 or greater, have a Chi-square value of 4 or greater (meaning it is statistically significant) and there has to be at least 3 events reported for a given AE. (This also means that if there are tons of different AEs reported for COVID vaccines that have never been reported for any other vaccine, it will not count as a safety signal. I found over 6,000 of those in my safety signal analysis from 2021.
Of course a safety signal does not necessarily mean there is a problem or that the vaccine caused the adverse event. But it is supposed to set off alarm bells to prompt closer inspection, as in this CDC pamphlet:
Ah yes, shared with the public — after first refusing to share the results and months of foot-dragging following repeated FOIA requests! We will see that the CDC has not done a more focused study on almost any of adverse events with “new patterns” (AKA safety signals).
SO WHAT DID THE CDC ACTUALLY DO?
The Epoch Times obtained 3 weeks of safety signal analyses from the CDC for VAERS data updated on July 15, 22 and 29, 2022. Here I will focus on the last one, since there is very little difference between them and it is more complete. The safety signal analysis compares adverse events1 reported to VAERS for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Dec. 14, 2020 through July 29, 2022 to reports for all non-COVID vaccines from Jan 1, 2009 through July 29, 2022.
PRRs are calculated separately for 5-11 year-olds, 12-15 year-olds and 18+ separately. For each age group, there are separate tables for AEs from all reports, AEs from reports marked serious and AEs from reports not marked as serious.2 Recall that a serious report is one that involves death, a life-threatening event, new or prolonged hospitalization, disability or permanent damage, or a congenital anomaly. I will focus on the reports for all AE’s.
They also have a table that calculates PRRs by comparing reports for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to reports for the Moderna vaccine and vice versa, again for all reports, serious reports only and non-serious reports. There were no remarkable findings in those tables, so I will not discuss them. [Edit: I forgot what Norman Fenton noted in his analysis: the overall proportion of reports with serious adverse events is 9.6% for Modern compared to 12.6% for Pfizer.] This isn’t that surprising since both vaccines are very similar and so should present relatively similar adverse events when compared to each other, and any differences are likely not large enough to be picked up by a PRR analysis. [Though the difference in the overall rate of serious adverse events, which are not specific to a particular type of event only how serious it is, was significant.]
The CDC seems to have calculated PRRs for every different type of adverse event reported for all the COVID vaccines examined – though it’s possible they only analyzed a subset. What seems clear is that, among the AEs they examined, the only ones included in the tables satisfy at least one of two conditions: a PRR value of at least 2 and a Chi-square value of at least 4 (Chi is the Greek letter χ and is pronounced like ‘kai’). When both conditions were met, they highlighted the adverse event in yellow, which appears to indicate a safety signal. There were no COVID vaccine AEs listed with fewer than 3 reported events, though for non-COVID vaccines there were many AEs listed that had only 1 or 2 reported since 2009. The CDC tables still include these and highlight them in yellow when the PRR is greater than 2 and the Chi-square value is great than 4, indicating these events are counted as safety signals.
WHAT SAFETY SIGNALS DID THE CDC FIND?
I’m going to divide this up by age groups and the Pfizer v. Moderna comparison. Let’s start with the 18+ group.
There are 772 AEs that appear on the list. Of these, 770 are marked in yellow and have PRR and Chi-square values that qualify them as safety signals. Some of these are new COVID-19 related codes, and we would expect those to trigger a signal since they didn’t exist in prior years to be reported by other vaccines. So if we take those off, we are left with 758 different types of non-COVID adverse events that showed safety signals.
I grouped these 758 safety signals into different categories. The figure below shows the total number of AEs reported for each of the major categories of safety signals:
Let’s dig into some of these categories to look at what types of AEs generated the most number of reports:3
You can peruse the adverse events using the Excel tables provided by the CDC, which were posted by The Epoch Times and Children’s Health Defense at the links at the top of this post.
What about The Children?
If there is anything that looks remotely like a bright spot in all of this is that the list of safety signals for 12-17 and 5-11 year-olds is much shorter than for 18+. There are 96 AEs that qualify as a safety signal for the 12-17 group and 67 for the 5-11. When we take out the new COVID-era AEs, there are 92 safety signals for 12-17 year-olds and 65 for 5-11 year-olds. Here are the most alarming ones:
I don’t know why the list of AE’s is so much shorter for these age groups. It could be that the list of AE’s for other vaccines for these age groups is much shorter, so in a case where AEs have been reported for the mRNA COVID vaccines but not for other vaccines, it will not be counted as a safety signal by definition.
COMPARISONS TO MYOCARDITIS & PERICARDITIS
We are told that the existence of a safety signal doesn’t necessarily mean the AE is caused by the vaccine, and I accept that premise. But the current practice seems to be to ignore safety signals, dismiss them as noise without any evidence, and stall any investigation into them as long as possible. The precautionary principle, however, dictates we should presume that a safety signal indicates causality, until proven otherwise. Since, it has been acknowledged that the mRNA COVID vaccines can cause myocarditis and pericarditis (often referred to as myo-pericarditis), we can take those AEs as a kind of benchmark, and propose that, at minimum, any AE with a signal of equal or greater size should be considered potentially causal and investigated more thoroughly.4
After dropping the new COVID-era AEs, there are 503 AEs with PRRs larger than myocarditis (PRR=3.09) and 552 with PRRs larger than pericarditis (PRR=2.82).5 This means that 66.4% of the AEs had a bigger safety signal than myocarditis and 77.3% were larger than pericarditis. You can see what those were by use this Excel file provided by the CDC and sorting the 18+ tab by the 12/14-07/29 PRR column (Column E). Then just look at which AEs have PRRs larger than the ones for pericarditis and myocarditis.
For 12-17 year-olds, there is 1 safety signal larger than myocarditis (it’s ‘troponin increased’) and 14 safety signals larger than pericarditis (excluding myocarditis), which include: mitral valve incompetence, bell’s palsy, heavy menstrual bleeding, genital ulceration, vaccine breakthrough infection, and a range of indicators of cardiac abnormalities.
For 5-11 year-olds, the comparison to myo/pericarditis is less germane, as they seem to suffer less from this side effect. But we can still make the comparison: there are 7 safety signals larger than pericarditis, including bell’s palsy, left ventricular dysfunction, mitral valve incompetence, and ‘drug ineffective’ (presumably meaning they still got COVID). There are 16 safety signals larger than myocarditis (excluding pericarditis), which in addition to those listed above also include: pericardial effusion, diastolic blood pressure increase, tricuspid valve incompetence, and vitiligo. Sinus tachycardia (high heart rate), appendicitis, and menstrual disorder come in just below myocarditis.
Now if we think of a safety signal as having both strength and clarity, then the PRR can be thought of as an indicator of how strong the signal is, while the Chi-square is a measure of how clear or unambiguous the signal is, because it gives us a sense of how likely the signal is due to chance alone: the larger the Chi-square value, the less likely the signal is due to chance. A Chi-square of 4 means there is only a 5% chance the observed signal is due to chance. A Chi-square of 8 means there is only a 0.5% chance of it being due to chance.6
For the 18+ group, there are 57 AEs with a Chi-square larger than myocarditis (Chi-square=303.8) and 68 with a Chi-square larger than pericarditis (Chi-square=229.5). Again, you can see what these are by going the Excel file linked above and sorting on Column D.
For the 12-17 group, there are 4 AEs with a larger Chi-square than myocarditis (Chi-square=681.5) and 6 larger than pericarditis (Chi-square=175.4).
For the 5-11 group, there are 22 AEs with a Chi-square larger than myocarditis (Chi-square=30.42) and 34 AEs with a Chi-square larger than pericarditis (Chi-square=18.86).
RESPONDING TO OBJECTIONS
Let’s dispense with some of the criticisms used to dismiss VAERS data, which will undoubtedly be raised if you try to bring the CDC’s analysis to people’s attention.
- Objection: Anybody can report to VAERS. The reports are unreliable. Anti-vaxxers made lots of fraudulent reports. Nobody was aware of VAERS in the past, but now they are. So many people were afraid of the vaccine so they blamed all their health problems on it. Health workers were required by law to report certain adverse events, like deaths and anaphylaxis. Etc. Etc.All of these objections ultimately rely on the notion that VAERS reports for COVID-19 vaccines have been artificially inflated over previous years for one reason or another. The thing of it is, though, that the CDC has a method for distinguishing between artificial inflation and real signal. The idea is simple: if adverse events are artificially inflated, they should be artificially inflated to the same degree. Meaning, the PRRs for all of these safety signals should be about the same. But even a casual glance at the PRRs in the Excel file show they vary widely, from as low at 2 to as high as 105 for vaccine breakthrough infection or 74 for cerebral thrombosis. This method does not on the number of reports, but the rate of reporting for certain events out of all events reported. If anything, this method would tend to hide safety signals in a situation where a new vaccine generates a very large number of reports.The CDC has even done us the favor of calculating upper and lower confidence intervals, meaning that we can be at least 95% confident that two PRRs are truly different if their confidence intervals don’t overlap. So for example the lower confidence interval for pulmonary thrombosis is 19.7, which is higher than the upper confidence interval for 543 other signals. Artificially inflated reporting cannot explain why so many different adverse events have large PRRs that are statistically distinct from one another.
- Objection: The safety signals are due to the huge number of COVID vaccines given out. Never before have we given out so many vaccine doses. By the end of July, the US had administered something like 600 million vaccine doses to people aged 18+. But the CDC analysis compares VAERS reports for these doses to all doses for all other vaccines for this age group since Jan. 1, 2009. But from 2015-2020 there were over 100 million flu doses administered annually to this age group alone. In previous work, I estimated 538 million doses of flu given to people 18+ from July 2015-June 2020. The number of flu and other non-COVID vaccines for this age group administered from Jan 1., 2009 through July 29, 2022 must be well over double this number, meaning VAERS reports for COVID vaccines are being compared to reports for at least double the number of doses for other vaccines. In addition to this, as already noted, the PRR methodology does not depend, strictly speaking, on the number of doses, but rather the rate of reporting of a specific AE out of all AEs for that vaccine.
- Objection: the vaccines are mainly being given to older people who tend to have health problems, whereas other vaccines are given to younger people. This objection is dealt with, since the analyses are stratified by age groups. It might be still be somewhat valid for the 18+ group, except that in the safety signal analysis I did in the fall of 2021, I stratified by smaller age bands and still found safety signals. In any case, this objection is not enough to dismiss the safety signal analysis out of hand, but rather calls for better and more refined research.
- Objection: The VAERS data is not verified and cannot be trusted. I’ll be the first person to agree that VAERS is not high quality data, but if it is completely untrustworthy, then how is it that the CDC uses these data to publish in the best medical journals such as JAMA and The Lancet? If the data were worthless, then these journals shouldn’t accept these papers. In that JAMA paper, they reported that 80% of the myocarditis reports met their definition of myocarditis and were included in the analysis. Many other reports simply needed more details for validation. Furthermore, the CDC has the ability and budget to follow-up on every report VAERS receives to get more details and even medical records to verify the report.So if myocarditis shows a clear signal in the CDC’s analysis, and 80% of those reports were apparently high quality enough to be included in a paper published in one of the world’s top medical journals, how is it possible that all the rest of the reports are junk? That all of the other safety signals are meaningless? Answer: it isn’t.And since we’re on the topic of safety signals that turned out to be real, it’s instructive to find appendicitis turn up as a safety signal in all 3 age groups, since a study published in NEJM based on medical records of over a million adult Israelis found an increased risk of appendicitis in the 42 days following Pfizer vaccination (but not following a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test). That study also found an increase in lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes) after vaccination, but not after positive COVID test. Lymphadenopathy was another safety signal.
- And that brings us to our last objection to be dispensed with: all of these AEs were due to COVID. There was an epidemic and so people were falling ill due to COVID and having all of these problems that were then blamed on the vaccine. Well to begin with, as we just saw, at least two of them (appendicitis and lymphadenopathy) do not appear to have increased risk ratios following a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, and we know that the mRNA vaccines increase risk of myo/pericarditis independent of infections. So how can we assume the rest of these are and dismiss them with the wave of a hand? We can’t. At minimum, they need further investigation. Furthermore, in the safety signal analysis I did in 2021, I dropped all VAERS reports where any sign of a SARS-CoV-2 exposure or infection was indicated on the report, and I still found large, significant safety signals.
PUTTING IT ALL INTO PERSPECTIVE
The Epoch Times article quotes my esteemed colleague and friend, Norman Fenton, Professor of Risk Management and an world-renowned expert in Bayesian statistical analysis: “from a Bayesian perspective, the probability that the true rate of the AE of the COVID-19 vaccines is not higher than that of the non-COVID-19 vaccines is essentially zero…. The onus is on the regulators to come up with some other causal explanation for this difference if they wish to claim that the probability a COVID vaccine AE results in death is not significantly higher than that of other vaccines.” (See his post on the CDC analysis here.) The same is true for all the safety signals they found.
The CDC’s VAERS SOP analysis document lists 18 Adverse Events of Special Interest says they are going to pay close attention to. In their 2021 JAMA paper (and similar presentations to ACIP), the researchers responsible for analyzing the millions of medical records in the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) using the ‘Rapid Cycle Analysis’ only studied 23 outcomes. A Similar analysis in NEJM from Israeli researchers focused on only 25 outcomes. Compare this to over 700 safety signals found by the CDC when they finally decided to look—and that’s not even counting all the adverse events that have never been reported for other vaccines so cannot ever show a safety signal by definition. How can the CDC say that these safety signals are meaningless if almost none of them have been studied any further? And yet we are assured that these vaccines have undergone the most intensive safety monitoring effort in history. It’s complete and utter hogwash!
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Josh Guetzkow is a senior lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Subscribe to his Substack here.
1) To be precise, the ‘adverse events’ are for ‘preferred terms’ (PTs) which is a type/level of classification used in the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA), which is the classification system used by VAERS and in other pharmacovigilance systems and clinical research for coding reported adverse events. Not all preferred terms are a symptom or adverse event per se. Some refer to a specific diagnostic test that was done or a treatment that was given.
2) It’s not entirely clear how they divided these up, since there are clearly AEs that should be considered serious that don’t show up in the serious Excel table — though maybe they don’t come up simply because they are looking within serious reports. I believe that they just filtered the reports to include only serious reports or non-serious reports, then did the safety signal analysis on all the AE’s coded in those reports. The reason I think this is that I used the MedAlerts Wayback Machine, selected just the serious COVID-19 vaccine reports, and the numbers of total reports was very close to the one in the table provided by the CDC (MedAlerts actually had a bit less). The files obtained by the Epoch Times do not include much in the way of a description as to how the analyses were done, so I had to infer some details, which might be incorrect. I will try to note when I am drawing an inference about how the analysis was done.
3) Generally speaking, these figures show the top ten AEs in each category. In some cases I combined AEs that indicated the same thing, such as combining ‘heart rate irregular’ with ‘arrythmia.’ [UPDATE: Note that the charts of all categories, cardiac and thrombo-embolic events were updated on Jan 7, 2023. The reason is that I had previously categorized acute myocardial infarction as a cardiac issue and myocardial infarction as thrombo-embolic. To be consistent, I have now combined myocardial infarction and acute myocardial infarction into one AE category in the thrombo-embolic events (which made the total AEs reported for that category larger than for pulmonary ones) and then added a different cardiac AE to the cardiovascular AE category, ventricular extrasystoles, AKA premature ventricular contraction (PVC), which dependent on frequency and the presence of other cardiomyopathies is associated with sudden cardiac arrest.]
4) Note that using the myo-pericarditis signal as a yardstick doesn’t mean that these are the only signals that matter. To give one example, anaphylactic reactions don’t even show up in the list of safety signals, even though that was one of the very first risk of the vaccine that became apparent from day one of the vaccine rollout.
One potential objection to this benchmark is that it is too low of a bar, since myo-pericarditis appears to disproportionately affect younger men and so a proper safety signal should be stratified by age and gender then compared with myocarditis similarly stratified. I agree, and it is the CDC’s job to do that. But the fact is that any adverse reaction might disproportionately affect some subgroup of people, in which case the safety signal for that group would be similarly faint or diluted when we look at everyone together. So objection overruled.
5) In their Standard Operation Procedures document, the CDC said they would combine these and related codes together to assess a safety signal, but never mind – at least they finally got around to doing something.
6) In this context, the Chi-square is largely driven by the sheer number of adverse events: the more adverse events reported, including for the comparator vaccine, the larger the Chi-square. For example, the PRR for pericarditis and subdural haematoma is the same (2.82), but there were 1,701 incidents of pericarditis reported for mRNA COVID vaccines versus 221for the comparator vaccines, with Chi-square of 229.5. For subdural haematoma, these numbers are 162 verus 21, for a Chi-square of 21.2.
This recording is from the 1986 Continental Indigenous Council. Lee Brown sums up the Hopi prophecies and compares them to other tribes and predictions & the accuracy of major world events predicted by the HOPI Elders is astonishing. Is the third shaking of the world imminent? Are we living through it right now?
Software, movies and music from ‘unfriendly countries’ can now be used in Belarus without the permission of the copyright holder
The new law, set to come into force next week, allows the use of software, films, music, television programs and other “audiovisual works” in the country without consent if the copyright holders hail from countries that have placed sanctions on Belarus.
https://www.rt.com/business/569553-belarus-legalizes-digital-piracy/
Jan 9, 2023
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Belarus has temporarily legalized the use of digital content from ‘unfriendly countries’ without the consent of copyright holders, according to a decree signed by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and published on the country’s official portal of legal information.
The new law, set to come into force next week, allows the use of software, films, music, television programs and other “audiovisual works” in the country without consent if the copyright holders hail from countries that have placed sanctions on Belarus.
The provision specifies that royalties must still be paid for the use of the content to copyright holders, but the funds are to be credited to the account of the Belarusian patent authority, where they can be claimed by copyright owners within three years.
The document also legalizes parallel imports, sometimes called “gray” imports, a practice in which non-counterfeit products are imported without the permission of the intellectual property owners via alternative supply channels. The measure covers imports from any country, not only those that are deemed “unfriendly.” According to the new law, the import of goods without the rights owner’s permission will be considered legal if these goods are included in the list of products “essential” for the domestic market.
READ MORE: Russia’s parallel imports soar – customs data
The law “will give an opportunity to import original goods not only to copyright holders of the object of intellectual property or their official distributors but to any importers. This temporary measure is aimed at preventing a shortage of imported goods and saturating the consumer market,” the Belarusian government explained on its official Telegram channel.
Parallel imports will not be allowed if the copyright holders of the goods continue to cooperate with residents of Belarus, and there is no critical shortage of such goods on the domestic market.
The new legislation will be in force until December 31, 2024.
How can you possibly have overlooked the COVID vaccine as a possible cause of the huge rise in excess deaths? The evidence is in plain sight.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-british-heart
Dear British Heart Foundation,
I just finished reading an article in the Telegraph entitled “Critics claim Covid jabs are causing heart problems – do they have any proof?” where you were quoted as saying:
The British Heart Foundation told The Telegraph: “The scientific consensus is that the benefits of Covid vaccination, including a reduced risk of severe illness or death, far outweigh the very small risk of rare side effects like myocarditis or pericarditis for the vast majority of people, especially as people get older.
I was wondering if your staff would be open to publicly discussing this statement with me and a team of expert cardiologists including Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aseem Malhotra as well as MIT Professor Retsef Levi (the senior author of Increased emergency cardiovascular events among under-40 population in Israel during vaccine rollout and third COVID-19 wave and Dr. Ryan Cole, one of the few pathologists in the US who specializes in COVID vaccine pathology?
The evidence is in plain sight; why are you ignoring it?
There is a large amount of evidence in plain sight that your recent comprehensive report on this subject has completely missed. The evidence shows that the COVID vaccine is, in fact, the most likely cause of all the cardiac issues experienced throughout the world. It is the elephant in the room.
To our utter astonishment, the COVID vaccine wasn’t even listed as a possible cause of cardiac death in the report, even though we can clearly show it is the major driver of the increased number of events.
For example, this analysis by the brilliant UK Professor Norman Fenton shows that the only thing that correlates with the excess deaths is the COVID vaccine. Did he get it wrong? Your comprehensive document never refutes his analysis. In fact, I haven’t seen anyone anywhere in the world show that he got it wrong and provide the correct analysis. Why do you think that is?
After the Schwab paper proved the COVID vaccines can kill people by damaging their hearts, where was the outcry from the British Heart Foundation? Did I miss this?
Where is the call to halt the COVID vaccine program in your report? It appears it was overlooked.
I have more data. Lots more data.
There was a study done on 175 people who got vaccinated in Puerto Rico. Do you know how many were diagnosed with myocarditis after the shot? The number will knock your socks off. I guarantee it. It makes the 29% rate of heart injury post-vaccine in the Thailand study look like a rounding error. I’ll share the data with you when we meet.
I think it is telling that nobody in the world accepted my offer to bet $1M that the vaccines killed more people than they saved. Not even the drug companies were willing to risk money on this.
In short, nobody in the entire world is willing to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to their statements on vaccine safety and efficacy.
That should give you pause… if the vaccine is so safe, why isn’t anyone willing to bet on a “sure thing” bet to get $1M?
Have you talked to any geriatric medical practices?
I am curious… have you ever picked up the phone and called a few large geriatric practices to see what is really going on?
It’s always good to do a “reality check” just to make sure that what you are being told in the medical literature is actually consistent with what is happening on the ground. Trust, but verify is important nowadays if you want to know the truth.
It’s not hard to do. The first large geriatric practice I spoke with has nearly 1,000 patients over 65 and they see around 11 deaths each year. It fluctuates every year with sigma= 3.3, exactly as predicted from Poisson distribution statistics. But in 2022, they had 36 deaths which is a 7.5 sigma event. So that couldn’t have happened by chance. The excess deaths were all attributed to the COVID vaccine by the doctor and nurse in that clinic. They can’t go public for fear of having their medical licenses revoked, but I can supply you with the de-identified patient records and case histories for all the deceased so you can verify this yourself. The 25 excess deaths in 2022 cannot be explained any other way as far as we know. This is highly statistically significant.
How can you ignore evidence like this?
Can you find any geriatric practices anywhere in the world where all-cause mortality dropped after the COVID vaccines rolled out?
I look forward to a public discussion.
It’s important that we get to the truth, isn’t it?
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/human-sacrifice-australian-lives-lost-to-vaccine-profiteering
by Rhoda Wilson
Jan 8, 2023
Michael Darby has highlighted a study on Australian excess deaths since April 2021 and an article relating to the 2009 H1N1 flu vaccines that demonstrate that the so-called vaccines do more harm than good. In a recent article he titled ‘Human Sacrifice’ Darby wrote:
“Every human being whose life is lost or endangered for the benefit of the Power of Pernicious Politicians or the Pelf of Plundering Profiteers is a victim of human sacrifice. One such victim is one too many. Scroll down for the Rancourt, Baudin, Mercier report, which indicates that 31,000 Australian lives were lost in 16 months from mid-April 2021.”
Darby is one of twenty-three eminent writers who combined their skills to defend and uphold values dear to the hearts of family-oriented and freedom-loving Australians in a book published in August 2021 titled ‘Unchain Australia: Trump, Covid and The World, Australian Edition’.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qbq1mag7u-M?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparentPerth Epoch News: Unchain Australia, A New Book You Should Read, 3 September 2021 (4 mins)
In the book beginning on page 235 is a chapter written by Darby titled ‘Human Sacrifice Must Cease’. You can find a copy of the book to read the chapter online HERE.
Rancourt, Baudin, Mercier Report
In his recent article, Darby referred to a 2022 study by Rancourt, Baudin, and Mercier. We briefly mentioned this study in an article last week ‘Covid Vaccine News: How much longer can Covidians keep up appearances?’:
All-cause mortality by week in Australia shows that there was no detectable excess mortality 13 months into the declared pandemic, followed by a step-wise increase in mortality in mid-April 2021, synchronous with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The excess mortality in the vaccination period (mid-April 2021 through August 2022; 14 % larger all-cause mortality than in recent pre-vaccination periods of same time duration; 62 million administered vaccine doses) was 31±1 thousand deaths, which is more than twice the deaths registered as from or with COVID-19.
In addition, a sharp peak in all-cause mortality (mid-January to mid-February 2022; 2,600 deaths) is synchronous with the rapid rollout of the booster (9.4 million booster doses, same time period), and is not due to a climatic heatwave.
Probable causal association between Australia’s new regime of high all-cause mortality and its Covid-19 vaccine rollout, ResearchGate, December 2022
The authors gave 13 numbered points as to why they concluded that the excess mortality in Australia is causally associated with the covid injection. These included:
- There is a clear temporal association between the new regime of heightened all-cause mortality and the vaccine rollout.
- The excess mortality in the vaccination period for Australia (all ages) is more than twice the total number of deaths registered as being from or with covid.
- There is a prominent peak in all-cause mortality synchronous with a large burst in covid “vaccine” dose delivery when the booster, or third dose, was rolled out.
- The step-wise increase in all-cause mortality, into the regime of excess all-cause mortality (mid-April 2021 through August 2022) occurs simultaneously in mid-April 2021 across all of Australia.
- Detailed histopathological and immunohistochemical autopsy studies have demonstrated that the covid injections are causes of death.
- A similar synchronicity between vaccine dose delivery and excess all-cause mortality is observed in connection with the so-called “vaccine equity” campaigns in the USA.
- Both India and Australia had virtually no detectable excess all-cause mortality after a pandemic was declared by the WHO, until their respective COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, which makes the synchronicity association relatively easy to assign.
- Two more examples of synchronicity between a rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout prioritizing elderly and vulnerable residents and large excess all-cause mortality occur in Michigan, USA (Rancourt et al., 2022) and Ontario, Canada.
They determined that the current vaccine injection fatality ratio (vIFR) in Australia is approximately 0.05 %. The authors noted the vIFR is smaller than the estimated vIFR for India (Rancourt, 2022), and several Southern states of the USA (Rancourt et al., 2022) of 1%.
In conclusion, the declared pandemic would have had to entirely spare Australia any detectable deaths for more than a year, while it raged in many other places around the world, before it showed any virulence, suddenly in mid-April 2021, when vaccines coincidentally were being rolled out to the elderly and most vulnerable.
In addition, a sharp peak in all-cause mortality (mid-January to mid-February 2022) would be synchronous with the rapid deployment of the vaccine booster (3rd doses) purely by coincidence, without any explanation (plausible or not) being provided.
On the contrary, our analysis leads us to conclude that the excess mortality in the vaccination period (31±1 thousand deaths, mid-April 2021 through August 2022; 14 % larger all-cause mortality than in recent pre-vaccination periods of same time duration; 62 million administered vaccine doses), which is more than twice the deaths registered as from or with COVID-19, and the sharp peak in all-cause mortality (mid-January to mid-February 2022; 2,600 deaths), which is synchronous with the rapid rollout of the booster (9.4 million booster doses, same time period) are causally associated with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Of course, this is diametrically opposite to the proposal that the COVID-19 vaccine would have saved any lives; a proposal that is not substantiated by extensive study of all-cause mortality data.
Probable causal association between Australia’s new regime of high all-cause mortality and its Covid-19 vaccine rollout, ResearchGate, December 2022
Harm Done by the Pandemrix Vaccine
The cover-up of vaccine harm didn’t suddenly begin with covid injections. Darby also highlighted the harm done in 2009 by the Pandemrix vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline. He pointed to an article published in 2018 by Contagion Live which points out the harm and deaths caused by GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine for the H1N1 “pandemic”:
In 2009, the influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 virus spread throughout the world, marking the most recent influenza pandemic since 1968.
In April 2009, health officials around the world began initiating pandemic responses and rolling out new vaccinations, designed especially for pandemic response.
One such vaccination administered across Europe—Pandemrix—has now been implicated in a new report by Peter Doshi, associate editor of The BMJ, who suggests that the vaccine had serious safety issues that led to an influx of adverse events and that these safety concerns were not communicated to the public.
During the pandemic, an estimated 30 million Europeans were administered the vaccine, after which, more than 1300 individuals who received the vaccine reported onset narcolepsy, according to The BMJ report.
Since then, new information has emerged from documents made available in a lawsuit against health officials in Ireland and GSK. The documents, obtained by a medical epidemiologist who served as a witness in the lawsuit, revealed the adverse events associated with all 3 GSK pandemic vaccines. The odds ratio was 5.39% [95% confidence interval 3.70 to 7.85] for deaths (Pandemrix vs the other vaccines).
High Rates of Adverse Events Linked with 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Vaccine, Contagion Live, 26 September 2018
“The [Contagion Live] article rightly draws attention to the lack of honesty then displayed by Big Pharma and by health authorities. The recent vaccine harm assessed by researchers Rancourt, Baudin, and Mercier is vastly greater than was inflicted, principally upon Europeans and Americans, in 2009,” Darby wrote.
The influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 virus was said to be the cause of the 2009 Swine flu “pandemic.” However, it was proved to be a false pandemic. Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg exposed and was instrumental in bringing to an end the 2009 Swine Flu Scandal. His actions resulted in an investigation by the European Parliament “to look into the issue of ‘falsified pandemic’ that was declared by WHO in June 2009.” Jon Snow of Channel 4 News reported that the Swine flu was one of the greatest medical scandals of the century.
Further reading:
- Déjà vu – NHS staff were told the Swine Flu vaccine was safe, over a decade later they’re still suffering the consequences
- Prediction: If another “pandemic” can result in more power for the power-hungry, there will likely be another “pandemic”
- Death by Covid Injection Is Premeditated and Co-ordinated, Experts Conclude
Brazilian plastics artist Alaim Moreira; Jamaican DJ Raevas Findley; Venezuelan footballer Bryan Ruiz (20); two Brazilian radio hosts (heart attacks); 15 from heart attacks in Mexico; & more
MEXICO
15 “died suddenly” from heart attacks:
Man from Río Blanco dies in Laguna de Nogales spa
January 1, 2023
Surprisingly and instantly, a male lost his life in the area of bars and canteens of the Laguna de Nogales spa. It is presumed that he suffered sudden cardiac arrest, so personnel from the Itinerant Prosecutor’s Office, rescuers from PC and the Municipal Police arrived at the site. The male whose identity was reserved was 55 years old and had a known address in Río Blanco. It is known that around 4:00 p.m. this Sunday, January 1, citizens requested the presence of the emergency and rescue forces because a male had started to feel bad, until he fell unconscious in the canteen area of said recreation center. It is said that after several minutes, local police officers and PC paramedics arrived at the scene, who unfortunately only confirmed the death of the male because he no longer had vital signs.
https://imagendeveracruz.mx/policiaca/muere-hombre-de-rio-blanco-en-la-laguna-de-nogales/50290299
Taxi driver from the capital died on the 57
January 2, 2023
The driver of a taxi lost his life, apparently from cardiac arrest, the events took place on Highway 57, near the community of Palma de Romero, during the first minutes of this Monday. Data obtained in relation to the incident indicated that the driver of the unit was on the highway in the direction of the state capital, at some point he fainted, the one who was co-driver, apparently his son, managed to control the steering wheel and take out the road vehicle. After notifying the emergency number 911, federal road and bridge rescuers (CAPUFE) immediately attended, who only confirmed that the man did not have vital signs, for which he may have died of cardiac arrest.
No age reported.
https://www.elsoldesanjuandelrio.com.mx/policiaca/taxista-de-la-capital-murio-en-la-57-9409003.html
Lady died while touristing in CDMX, she had a cardiac arrest
December 29, 2022
In Mexico City, a 58-year-old woman was traveling with her 28-year-old daughter in a Turibús on the Historic Center route when she fell unconscious, so her daughter called 911 for help. The paramedics arrived and tried to help her but discovered that the woman had died due to cardiorespiratory arrest, so they proceeded to call the police to process the scene. In addition to this, they requested support from the expert services to come to the place and help the police to process the scene, in addition to beginning an investigation of what happened in said place. So far they have not released the identity of the woman who died or her daughter. Authorities are investigating what could have been the cause of death other than cardiac arrest.
http://www.tiempo.com.mx/noticia/cdmx_sufrir_cardiaco_anos_turistear_senora_paro_hija_murio/
Sexagenarian dies of cardiac arrest
December 31, 2022
A sixty-year-old lost his life yesterday afternoon while being transferred to receive medical attention due to cardiac arrest. Investigating authorities learned of the death and ordered the transfer of the body. The events were reported to the authorities shortly after 2:00 p.m. yesterday by the Red Cross social worker, who indicated that she had arrived without vital signs. The identity was not revealed by the authorities, but it is a male person in his 60s, who allegedly began to feel bad very early on and when he was transferred to receive medical attention, he lost his life. After meeting with family members, investigating agents began the corresponding investigation folder, in addition to ordering the transfer of the body to the amphitheater for its legal necropsy. It should be noted that the victim, when examined by both doctors and the authorities, had the characteristics that he died of a myocardial infarction, so they would only carry out the pertinent procedures.
https://www.elmanana.com/policiaca/policiaca/sexagenario-fallece-de-paro/5648153
Shock as man dies suddenly in supermarket car park in San Nicolas
December 28, 2022
Las Puentes – According to reports from Mexico, a man died suddenly while walking to his car in a supermarket car park in the Las Puentes neighbourhood of San Nicolas de los Garza on Wednesday, December 28. Mexican news outlet Milenio reported that the man died at around 10 am. Unconfirmed reports suggest that man died after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest. Ambulance crews arrived at the scene, however, they were unable to help the man, who they pronounced dead at the scene.
No age reported.
Granny dies of heart disease in Tampico casino
January 2, 2023
An elderly woman died tonight, presumably from a cardiac arrest outside a casino where minutes before she was playing with a friend. Paramedics from the Red Cross mobilized to try to help the unfortunate woman, who unfortunately died in the parking area of the business located on the Tampico-Mante highway next to the entrance to Tancol, in the northern area of this port city. Although the identity of the victim is unknown, it was revealed that she was allegedly playing inside the casino with a friend, when she suddenly began to feel bad, for which they decided to retire, but unfortunately she lost consciousness outside. The friend returned to ask for support from the casino and the presence of the paramedics was requested, who unfortunately only arrived to decree her death, informing elements of the Attorney General’s Office to attest to the corpse.
https://www.hoytamaulipas.net/notas/518598/Abuelita-muere-de-cardiacazo-en-casino-de-Tampico.html
Man dies of apparent cardiac arrest in downtown Tampico
December 30, 2022
A man died this Friday night when he entered the ATMs of a bank with a woman, and suddenly suffered an apparent cardiac arrest that in a matter of minutes ended his existence. The unfortunate death occurred inside the Santander Serfin institution, located on Capitán Emilio Carranza street in the downtown area of Tampico. The victim had not been identified, it was only reported that he was accompanied by a woman, and after entering the ATM he suddenly lost consciousness. The Red Cross paramedics went there to try to help him, but unfortunately they could no longer do anything, determining that he suffered an apparent and sudden cardiac arrest.
Custodian of securities truck dies of a heart attack in the Xonaca neighborhood
January 2, 2023
A worker who was returning from vacation died of a heart attack inside a securities company, in the city of Puebla. After completing his rest period for the December holidays, the 54-year-old custodian appeared this Monday morning at the Panamericano facilities located on North 30th Street. After a few minutes of entering, he fainted in front of the gaze of his companions. Due to the above, the rest of the guards helped them, but they saw that he did not respond and they dialed the emergency number. Consequently, the paramedics of unit 184 mobilized to attend to the report. Upon arrival, they checked the guard and indicated that he lost his life as a result of cardiac arrest.
Death surprises watchman at a university in Matamoros
December 31, 2022
The watchman from the University of Matamoros lost his life from a possible cardiac arrest, for which the authorities mobilized towards the place. This is an elderly person who was identified as René, who lived in the Aurora neighborhood and had no relatives in the city, according to information collected on the site. It was his relief who found the employee sitting in a chair, as if he were asleep, according to what he declared. Civil Protection paramedics arrived at the educational institution to pronounce the man lifeless.
No age reported.
Man dies of a heart attack in highway bathrooms
December 28, 2022
A man originally from San Miguel de Allende died of cardiac arrest in the toilets of the Guanajuato to Silao toll booth. At 2:39 p.m., a 911 report was received of an unconscious person in a restroom on the highway. The person who made the call identified himself as the person in charge of the toll booth, who indicated that cleaning personnel found an unconscious man in the toilets. Paramedics from the State Emergency System (SUEG) arrived at the site, who, when assessing the fallen, observed that he did not have vital signs. Apparently the man died of cardiac arrest, so the site was cordoned off while waiting for the SEMEFO unit.
No age reported.
Man loses his life in a supermarket in Saltillo; he suffered a heart attack
December 27, 2022
After suffering a heart attack, the lifeless body of a 66-year-old man was left in the checkout line of a supermarket. Municipal authorities and the State Attorney General’s Office are already aware of the death that occurred shortly after 9 pm, at HEB, San Patricio branch. After suffering a heart attack, the lifeless body of a 66-year-old man was left in the checkout line of a supermarket, located on the corner of Eulalio Gutiérrez and Colosio. Two units of the Municipal Police came to the scene to protect the area of death. Although the initial indications indicate that the death could have been caused by heart failure, the body will be taken to the facilities of the Forensic Medical Service to confirm it.
Irapuato: In the middle of the shopping mall and in front of dozens of people, an elderly man died
December 29, 2022
An elderly man was sitting on a bench in San Roque square, when he suffered a cardiac arrest, “I had already passed and I saw him sitting, he looked fine, I just suddenly heard the blow when he fell,” a security guard mentioned. The unfortunate event occurred around 6:40 in the afternoon, when a man of approximately 70 years of age was accompanied by relatives in San Roque square, located on Enrique Colunga street, near San Roque boulevard, to one side of the colony. According to a security guard of the square, in one of his tours along the main corridor of the square, he managed to see the man sitting on a bench, without showing any symptoms or discomfort. From one moment to the next, the man simply fainted and fell on the ground, in front of the premises of an internet and cable television company. Municipal police officers arrived at the scene, cordoned off the place, met with the relatives present and notified Agents of the State Attorney General’s Office to carry out the corresponding inquiries, and then the staff of the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) removed the body from the scene.
Man suffers heart attack on a public road and dies north of Saltillo
January 2, 2023
He went to a mechanic shop for help, but he collapsed and died instantly. During the afternoon of this Monday, a man lost his life as a result of a heart attack that occurred on the public highway of Saltillo. Around 2:00 p.m., the incident occurred on Carlos Francisco de Croix street, when a man of approximately 30 years of age suffered chest discomfort and had a heart attack. At the moment he felt the discomfort, the man tried to get to a mechanical workshop to ask for help, but it was too late, since at the moment he arrived he blacked out in the presence of the mechanics, who, not knowing what to do, called 911 to ask for help. For this reason, Red Cross paramedics arrived at the scene, but only confirmed the death of the man, for which reason elements of the State Attorney General’s Office were notified to come to learn of these facts.
A woman suffers a heart attack and dies aboard a Turibús in CDMX
December 28, 2022
A woman who was traveling with her daughter in a Turibús unit in Mexico City (CDMX) lost her life due to cardiorespiratory arrest, for which a strong mobilization of agents of the capital’s police and emergency services originated. The event occurred on the afternoon of December 28 when the woman and her daughter were traveling on the second floor of the Turibús, which runs through various parts of the capital, when suddenly the approximately 58-year-old woman suffered cardiorespiratory arrest. After the fact, her 28-year-old companion notified the driver of the vehicle who quickly contacted the emergency services and the authorities. It was on Monte de Piedad street that the ERUM paramedics came to provide first aid to the woman, however, she no longer showed vital signs, for which reason she was reported. to the ministerial authorities and the presence of the personnel of the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office was requested.
https://www.adn40.mx/seguridad/mujer-sufre-infartomuere-turibus-cdmx-lhp
He was going for medicines, he died outside a pharmacy in C. Doria
January 2, 2023
For unknown reasons, this Monday afternoon, January 2, 2023, the death of a person who had gone to a commercial establishment in the Pachuca municipality, in Hidalgo, was reported, for which an investigation was launched to clarify the fact. Well, it was a man who was going to enter a Tus Farmacias brand pharmacy in the Juan C Doria neighborhood of Pachuca, however, he fainted for no apparent reason right at the door, for what that customers and employees issued an emergency call. This to line 911, an instance from which ground elements of the Pachuca Ministry of Public Safety, Transit and Roads (SSPTVP) were deployed, as well as paramedics from the Mexican Red Cross delegation who immediately went to the scene of the incident. However, according to information from the Effetá portal, despite the fact that the relief forces tried to provide medical attention to the man, only his death was confirmed, as well as it being unidentified, for which the presence of the Attorney General’s Office was requested.
No age or cause of death reported.
COSTA RICA
The mother of Joselyn Chacón, Minister of Health, dies
January 2, 2023
The mother of Joselyn Chacón, Minister of Health, passed away on the night of this Sunday, January 1. The news was confirmed by the Presidential House. Mrs. Aida Madrigal García, 60, had been admitted to the Hospital México for several days due to heart problems. In recent weeks her condition worsened and she was in an intensive care unit. Even the Government granted a special permit to the minister so that she could care for her mother.
https://www.teletica.com/nacional/muere-la-madre-de-joselyn-chacon-ministra-de-salud_326508
JAMAICA
DJ Raevas found dead on Boxing Day
December 27, 2022
Kencot, St. Andrew – Well-known selector DJ Raevas Findley died suddenly on Boxing Day. He was found unresponsive in his bed by relatives. Top flight deejay Bounty Killer reacted in shock upon hearing the news, and posted a screenshot of the popular selector to his Instagram page, captioning the pic: “Kmt Jah know star no mon dis cyaah be real”. Long-time friend and selecting partner DJ Tom of the duo Tom and Raevas was almost inconsolable in his grief. “Mi ah wait pon the autopsy because we find him inna him bed, is like him sleep weh or ah poison him get poison because under him fingernail dem black like Ace of Spades and him black and is a brown man,” DJ Tom told OBSERVER ONLINE.
No age or cause of death reported.
COLOMBIA
A well-known young man died of a heart attack in El Banco
December 27, 2022
The well-known young Abdel Saleh Mora died of a heart attack in the municipality of El Banco, Magdalena. The young man was found lifeless in one of the rooms of his house, located in the municipality of El Banco. According to the El Banco y la Región newspaper, the authorities concluded that the death of the well-known young man was due to a heart attack. Abdel Saleh Mora at one time made himself known in the local population by directing an interview program through the YouTube platform.
No age reported.
https://seguimiento.co/magdalena/de-un-infarto-fallecio-reconocido-joven-en-el-banco-61259
VENEZUELA
Bryan Ruiz, Aragua FC footballer, dies of a heart attack
January 2, 2023
The young soccer player Bryan Ruiz, 20, from Aragua FC of the first division of national soccer, died of a heart attack during the New Year celebrations. “From the FUTVE League we want to express the deep sorrow that overwhelms us for the death of Bryan Leonel Ruiz Zerpa, a young talent that we were able to enjoy on the Venezuelan soccer fields with the Aragua FC shirt,” the league reported in a statement published in their social networks. “We accompany all his family, friends and colleagues in his grief, and we are sure that the entire Venezuelan soccer community extends a supportive hug at such a difficult time.”
Muere de un infarto Bryan Ruiz, futbolista del Aragua FC
SURINAME
Gone way too young Tushar Gangadien from Suriname
January 1, 2023
Gone way too young Tushar Gangadien from Suriname. Died January 1, 2023. Very bad this. Still in the prime of life, only 17 years young. Gone so suddenly. The Gangadien family is plunged into deep mourning, so wan owru jari they will never forget.
No cause of death reported.
BRAZIL
Plastic artist Alaim Moreira Lima dies, aged 55
December 30, 2022
The artist Alaim Moreira Lima, 55 years old, died this Thursday morning, victim of a massive heart attack, according to the first information from close friends. In the theater, for 7 years, he stood out as general director of the show of the Passion of Christ in Pinheiro-MA. He studied Higher Education of Visual Arts, in Cuba, in 1999. He participated in several national and international exhibitions, such as countries: Portugal, Cuba, Jamaica; and in institutional spaces in São Luís at the Federal University of Maranhão, Fundação de Cultura do Município, among others. He worked as a carnavalesco in several samba schools in Maranhão.
DJ Ralph Gomes dies of a heart attack in Campo Maior and generates great commotion in the city
December 31, 2022
The DJ from Campo Maior, Ralph Gomes, age 22, passed away this Saturday afternoon (12/31) from an acute myocardial infarction. According to information found by Diário de Campo Maior, he felt chest pains, was admitted to the Campo Maior Regional Hospital (HRCM), but could not resist the complications and died. He was approximately 22 years old. Ralph Gomes acted as a DJ for singer Dre-G, who is successful with RAP lyrics. The artist’s Instagram profile published a story this afternoon with an image of a black heart and the word mourning, in reference to Ralph’s passing.
Two radio hosts “died suddenly” from heart attacks:
Inhuma Prefecture mourns the death of broadcaster Berto Santos
December 29, 2022
The City Hall of Inhuma, lamented this Thursday the death of radio host Adalberto Santos (Berto Santos), who died this Thursday from a heart attack. Berto Santos, who was currently working at Centro Sul FM, worked at several stations in the Valencian region, including in the city of Valença do Piaui. “Very saddened by the passing of Adalberto. May God keep him in a good place and comfort his family,” the inhumense wrote in the post. Joseph of Arimatheas.
No age reported.
Dies, aged 53, radio host Carlos Dias
December 30, 2022
Radio host Carlos Dias died at the age of 53, this Friday, the 30th, the Xodó de Comunicação network, a company where the communicator worked, with an emphasis on the Alto Sertão Sergipano region, in the city of Nossa Senhora da Glória. Baiano, born in the city of Salvador, Dias leaves a wife, children and admirers of his work. The cause of death was disclosed as a heart attack and the information was confirmed by the station where the communicator worked.
https://fanf1.com.br/cidades/2022/12/30441/morre-aos-53-anos-o-radialista-carlos-dias.html
Pro Valorant player dies on vacation age 27
December 31, 2022
Larischz, a female Valorant player who most recently played for DELIRA, passed away in Pinamar, Argentina, while on vacation, with her cause of death not yet confirmed. Lara ‘Larischz’ Gilardoni was a pro player who played for many different organizations in Brazil. Despite her best efforts, she missed qualification for the most recent Game Changers LAN event with DELIRA.
Giovani Augusto Spielmann dies of heart attack
December 29, 2022
Around 11:30 am this Thursday, December 29, the former Secretary of Health of Lagoa Vermelha, Giovani Augusto Spielmann died. He was the victim of a massive heart attack while riding a bicycle on a highway in Brasilia, Federal District. Advisor to federal deputy Maurício Dziedricki, Spielmann was on recess. In addition to being Secretary of Health and an employee of Dziedricki’s office, Spielmann was an advisor to deputies Ronaldo Santini and Paparico Bacchi.
No age reported.
Two truck drivers “died suddenly”:
Driver from Vilhena suffers a heart attack and dies at the door of the truck
December 31, 2022
The driver identified as Jorge Valdecir suffered a heart attack and died next to his work vehicle, this Saturday in Campo Novo dos Parecis – Mato Grosso. According to information obtained from the incident report, Jorge was picking up an invoice when he felt bad, claiming to have become dizzy and with dark eyesight. Grain company officials asked him if he wanted help getting to the hospital. He denied going and asked for help to get to his truck. When trying to climb he ended up falling to the ground, having trouble breathing. A friend screamed for help, where Samu was alerted. Company employees tried to assist in what was possible, but he couldn’t resist.
A Brazilian truck driver collapsed and died in the border area
December 31, 2022
A truck driver died during hours of Thursday night while crossing the border between Argentina and Brazil located in the Corrientes town of Paso de los Libres, police sources reported. Chief Commissioner Baroni Damián Lorenzo provided details in a radio interview on the “Hay Otra Manera” program about the death of the truck driver of Brazilian nationality. According to the first investigations, the man fainted while being transferred in the area of the border crossing from Paso de los Libres to Uruguayana. At the moment the case is being investigated and the jurisdiction intervened personnel from the National Gendarmerie and on the latest police events that occurred in the city.
No age or cause of death reported.
Graciele Lacerda reports fatality during flight with Zezé Di Camargo
December 31, 2022
Zezé Di Camargo and Graciele Lacerda traveled to Miami, in the United States, where the singer will perform in a show. But the couple’s arrival at the American destination ended up being delayed longer than expected due to a fatality that happened on the flight they were on. She explained what happened this Saturday morning. “We arrived a while ago. But we haven’t managed to get off the plane yet. There was a fatality on the flight. One person died in his sleep“, lamented Graciele when posting a photo of her feet on the aircraft. When contacted by Quem, Azul, the company that Graciele and Zezé were traveling with, confirmed the episode and reported that a customer felt ill on board flight AD8704 (Viracopos-Fort Lauderdale), was attended to by a medical team at the destination, but did not resist and died.
No cause of death reported.
Man suffers sudden illness and dies in the center of Barra Velha
December 30, 2022
A resident passed away this Friday on Rua Ernesto Krause, in the center of Barra Velha – he was at a lottery agency in front of Praça Lauro Carneiro de Loyola, the lagoon square. The victim, initially identified as Alexandre, age not disclosed, is the husband of a social worker. The military fire department attempted resuscitation and provided pre-hospital care in the early afternoon, and referred him to the 24-hour emergency room, without success.
No age or cause of death reported.
Mourning: Businessman Onildo Pereira Filho dies
December 27, 2022
Laboratório Oliveira (Labo) communicated the death of the institution’s owner, the biochemist and businessman Onildo Pereira Filho. He died this Tuesday at the Hospital Sírio-Libanês, in São Paulo, where he was transferred after suffering a sudden illness. Onildo was being treated for complications arising from a cardiac arrest suffered on December 7th. Onildo was very dear and well known in Vitória da Conquista.
No age reported.
http://megaradiovca.com.br/noticia/93678/luto-morre-o-empresario-onildo-pereira-filho-do-labo/
Server dies after suffering a massive heart attack inside the secretariat in Feira de Santana
December 29, 2022
The server Marcia Silva Oliveira de Souza died yesterday afternoon at the premises of the Secretariat for Social Development in Feira de Santana, as a result of a massive heart attack. The Mobile Emergency Service (Samu) was triggered and provided first aid, but the employee could not resist. Marcia had thrombosis and worked as an administrative assistant for the Qualifica Feira program. She had been with the agency for two years. In an interview with the Acorda Cidade Program this Thursday morning, secretary Carlos Borges Jr. gave condolences to the server’s family and friends and explained that she was already feeling sick in the morning. “This exemplary servant had great generosity in her heart, a professional who fulfilled her duties. The information we obtained is that, in the morning, she felt bad, but she continued working. When it was noon, she stopped for lunch, had lunch at her workplace and when her colleagues returned after 2 pm, they found her lying on the ground and immediately called the SAMU. But unfortunately, when the medical team arrived, she no longer had vital signs.”
Teenager, 17 years old, who suffered a massive cardiac arrest in Ijuí is buried in Caxias do Sul
December 29, 2022
The body of teenager Letícia de Castilhos da Silva, aged 17, who died in Ijuí yesterday, Wednesday (28), was buried in Caxias do Sul at 1 pm this Thursday (12/29). The girl had been walking around a family member’s house in the Alvorada neighborhood for six days when she felt sick. During this visit, she had already presented health complications and was referred for care in the basic network. Speaking to Ijuí News, Letícia’s maternal grandmother, who lives in Caxias do Sul, said that her granddaughter’s body underwent an autopsy in Ijuí and arrived in Caxias around 10 am today (Thursday). Three hours later, he was buried. Ivana Strasser reported that her granddaughter Letícia’s death certificate points to cardiac arrest due to severe pneumonia, a trigger for heart complications.
49-year-old woman dies of heart problems in Sidrolândia
January 2, 2023
Jussi Cleia Pereira Rebello, 49 years old, affectionately known as Jussi, in Sidrolândia, a municipality 68 kilometers from Campo Grande, died this Sunday morning due to heart problems, despite being young. She was even brought to the Santa Casa de Campo Grande, but she couldn’t resist.
Relatives announce the death of Vanderlei Nascimento da Silva
December 27, 2022
Family members contacted CGN to report the death of Vanderlei Nascimento da Silva, 42 years old. The man from Cascavel had a massive heart attack this Tuesday morning while he was at the residence where he lived.
PARAGUAY
Paraguayan taxi driver collapsed and died at the Iguazú Border Center
January 2, 2023
A Paraguayan taxi driver collapsed this morning at the Iguazú Border Center, asked for help from Argentine National Gendarmerie personnel, however he died. The man would have finished Migration and was heading to the Tancredo Neves bridge in his vehicle, when he felt bad, he parked a few meters from the checkpoint, got out of the vehicle and asked for help, was helped by Gendarmerie personnel, but died. As this medium was able to find out, the death was reported to the Paraguayan consulate in Iguazú in order to find the man’s relatives.
ARGENTINA
Héctor Marcelino Luna, hero of Malvinas war, died
December 31, 2022
The Malvinas War Veteran, Héctor Marcelino Luna, died at the age of 66, during Friday night, as a result of a cardiac arrest. Due to his participation in the armed conflict in the south, he arrived in the Islands on April 4, 1982, at the age of 26. He was the 1st Artillery Corporal, belonging to the 7th Morón Air Brigade. His military destiny was to defend Puerto Argentino. He returned to the continent on June 24 aboard the ship ARA Almirante Irizar.
He collapsed and died in the street
January 2, 2023
A man over 50 years of age collapsed while walking and died on a public road. Sources consulted by our outlet reported that the death occurred around 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, in the town of Puesto del Márquez. A 53-year-old man was passing through 9 de Julio street and Canal de Beagle in that town and suffered a loss of consciousness, suddenly falling to the ground. The people who tried to help him could not revive him, he had already passed away. After examining F.A.’s corpse, they determined that his death was the product of a non-traumatic cardiorespiratory arrest.
He blacked out when he was riding a motorcycle, fell to the ground and died on the spot
January 1, 2023
After having shared the beginning of the New Year with his loved ones, a man living in the rural area of Colonia El Simbolar, was riding a motorcycle as a companion, a circumstance in which he suffered a loss of consciousnesses, fell heavily to the ground and died, plunging into deep pain and distress his family and close friends. The unfortunate event occurred at a time when the victim, identified as Guido Octavio Noriega (55), was traveling on a motorcycle through a street in the Aion No. 2 neighborhood of that town. He suddenly felt bad and collapsed to the ground, while the driver of the vehicle stopped the drive and tried to help him. Immediately, he contacted relatives and asked them to go to the place, while he also took care of notifying the Police and required the presence of an ambulance with paramedics, to assist the fainted man.
No cause of death reported.
Tragic start to 2023: A 58-year-old woman decompensated at her home and died
January 3, 2023
Minutes before four in the morning yesterday, a family on Calle 17 in the Ejército Argentino neighborhood of the Capital City experienced moments of despair, after one of the members suffered a loss of consciousnesses. She was a 58-year-old woman and due to the urgency, her relatives loaded her in a truck and transferred her to the Regional Hospital “Dr. Ramon Carrillo”. However, despite the haste with which they took her to the hospital and the efforts of health professionals from the medical guard, the patient named Arce lost her life due to cardiorespiratory arrest. The unfortunate fact was reported to the woman’s family shortly after her arrival at the hospital. The news of the tragic outcome generated scenes of deep pain among her relatives. Likewise, it provoked the intervention of the staff of the Community Police Station No. 11, who reported the fatal event to the prosecutor on duty, Dr. Ángel Belluomini. Later, the body was handed over to her family for burial.
Two killed in “vaxxidents”:
Driver collides with parked trailer and dies after getting stuck to hardware
December 27, 2022
A 40-year-old man died this Tuesday afternoon, the 26th, after being involved in a traffic accident in the Jardim Petrópolis complex. He collided with the back of a parked truck. It was around 1:30 pm, when the victim – who according to a witness worked as a driver per app – would have lost consciousness after allegedly suffering a sudden illness and hitting the larger vehicle that was parked. The violence of the impact was so strong that the man was trapped in the ironwork, suffered a crushed skull and traumatic amputation of one of his arms. Fire Department (CBM/AL) and Mobile Emergency Service (Samu/AL) were called and quickly arrived at the scene. Samu’s advisory confirmed that care for the victim began with him still incarcerated, but he ended up not being able to hold on, and dying on the spot. Firefighters sent two vehicles, with seven soldiers who removed the victim’s body from the vehicle.
Man dies after having a sudden illness and crashing on Rua da Lapa in Cascavel
December 30, 2022
A man died after having a sudden illness, losing control and crashing the Tracker vehicle this Friday afternoon in Cascavel. The accident happened on Rua da Lapa, near the Army battalion, in the Maria Luiza neighborhood. According to information, the man was heading towards Lago Municipal de Cascavel, became ill and lost control of the direction. The SUV hit another vehicle that was in motion, lost one of its wheels and went out of control, hitting a tree, an electric power pole and also the gate of the Gomes Carneiro housing complex. When he was removed from the car resuscitation was not possible, he was already lifeless. Some power lines were knocked down and the area had to be isolated for Copel to operate. Images show the moment when the victim was rescued from inside the car, all the air bags were triggered, but he was already lifeless. The identity of the man who was between 50 and 60 years old has not yet been released.
https://catve.com/noticia/8/381722/homem-morrem-em-grave-acidente-na-rua-da-lapa-em-cascavel
The strike on the Ukrainian armed forces was part of a retaliation operation, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov noted
https://tass.com/russia/1559523
Jan 8, 2023
© Defense Ministry’s Press Service
MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. Russia’s armed forces have killed more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen in a massive missile strike on temporary bases in Kramatorsk, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.
“Over the past day, Russian intelligence means detected and reliably confirmed through various independent channels some temporary bases of Ukrainian servicemen in Kramatorsk,” the spokesman said. “As a result of a massive missile strike on these temporary bases of Ukrainian units, more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen were killed,” he added.
Over 700 Ukrainian servicemen were at dormitory No. 28 and more than 600 were at dormitory No. 47 in Kramatorsk, Konashenkov said.
The strike on the Ukrainian armed forces was part of a retaliation operation, he noted. “In response to an illicit strike inflicted by Kiev’s regime on a temporary Russian military base in the settlement of Makeyevka of the Donetsk People’s Republic in the first minutes of January 2023 the command of the united group of Russian military forces conducted a retaliation operation,” he said.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported 89 Russian servicemen were killed as a result of a Ukrainian strike with six HIMARS rockets on a temporary deployment center of Russia’s Armed Forces in Makeyevka in the early hours of January 1.
The CIA abandoned Afghanistan in a humiliating retreat – even ditching the heroin ratline – just to relocate to Ukraine and continue playing the same old broken records. The CIA is behind the ongoing sabotage of Russian infrastructure – in tandem with MI6 and others. Sooner or later there will be blowback.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-bye-bye-1991-2022
BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, JAN 08, 2023
Authored by Pepe Escobar,
The hard work starts now. Welcome to the New Great Game on crack…
2023 starts with collective NATO in Absolutely Freak Out Mode as Russian Defense Minister Shoigu announces that Russian Navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov is now on tour – complete with a set of Mr. Zircon’s hypersonic business cards.
The business tour will encompass the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, and of course include the Mediterranean, the Roman Empire’s former Mare Nostrum. Mr. Zircon on the prowl has absolutely nothing to do with the war in Ukraine: it’s a sign of what happens next when it comes to frying much bigger fishes than a bunch of Kiev psychos.
The end of 2022 did seal the frying of the Big Ukraine Negotiation Fish. It has now been served on a hot plate – and fully digested. Moscow has made it painfully clear there’s no reason whatsoever to trust the “non-agreement capable” declining superpower.
So even taxi drivers in Dacca are now betting on when the much-vaunted “winter offensive” starts, and how far will it go. General Armageddon’s path ahead is clear: all-out demilitarization and de-electrification on steroids, complete with grinding up masses of Ukrainians at the lowest possible cost to the Russian Armed Forces in Donbass until Kiev psychos beg for mercy. Or not.
Another big fried fish on a hot plate at the end of 2022 was the 2014 Minsk Agreement. The cook was no other than former chancellor Merkel (“an attempt to buy time for Ukraine”). Implied is the not exactly smokin’ gun: the strategy of the Straussian/neo-con and neoliberal-con combo in charge of U.S. foreign policy, from the beginning, was to unleash a Forever War, by proxy, against Russia.
Merkel may have been up to something telling the Russians, in their face, that she lied like crypto-Soprano Mike Pompeo, then she lied again and again, for years. That’s not embarrassing for Moscow, but for Berlin: yet another graphic demonstration of total vassalage to the Empire.
The response by the contemporary embodiment of Mercury, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Maria Zakharova, was equally intriguing: Merkel’s confession could be used as a specific reason – and evidence – for a tribunal judging Western politicians responsible for provoking the Russia-Ukraine proxy war.
No one will obviously confirm it on the record. But all this could be part of an evolving, secret Russia-Germany deal in the making, leading to Germany restoring at least some of its sovereignty.
Time to fry NATO fish
Meanwhile, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, visibly relishing his totally unplugged incarnation, expanded on the Fried Negotiation Fish saga. “Last warning to all nations”, as he framed it: “there can be no business with the Anglo-Saxon world [because] it is a thief, a swindler, a card-sharp that could do anything… From now on we will do without them until a new generation of sensible politicians comes to power… There is nobody in the West we could deal with about anything for any reason.”
Medvedev, significantly, recited more or less the same script, in person, to Xi Jinping in Beijing, days before the zoom to end all zooms – between Xi and Putin – that worked as a sort of informal closure of 2022, with the Russia-China strategic partnership perfectly in synch.
On the war front, General Armageddon’s new – offensive – groove is bound to lead in the next few months to an undisputable fact on the ground: a partition between a dysfunctional black hole or rump Ukraine on the west, and Novorossiya in the east.
Even the IMF is now reluctant to throw extra funds into the black hole. Kiev’s 2023 budget has an – unrealistic – $36 billion deficit. Half of the budget is military-related. The real deficit in 2022 was running at about $5 billion a month – and will inevitably balloon.
Tymofiy Mylovanov, a professor at the Kiev School of Economics, came up with a howler: the IMF is worried about Ukraine’s “debt sustainability”. He added, “if even the IMF is worried, imagine what private investors are thinking”. There will be no “investment” in rump Ukraine. Multinational vultures will grab land for nothing and whatever puny productive assets may remain.
Arguably the biggest fish to be fried in 2023 is the myth of NATO. Every serious military analyst, few Americans included, knows that the Russian Army and the military-industrial complex represent a superior system than what existed at the end of the U.S.SR, and far superior to that of the U.S. and the rest of NATO today.
The Mackinder-style final blow to a possible alliance between Germany (EU), Russia and China – which is what is really behind the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine – is not proceeding according to the Straussian wet dream.
Saddam Hussein, the former imperial vassal, was regime-changed because he wanted to bypass the petrodollar. Now we have the inevitable rise of the petroyuan – “in three to five years”, as Xi Jinping announced in Riyadh: you just can’t prevent it with Shock’n Awe on Beijing.
In 2008, Russia embarked on a massive rebuilding of missile forces and a 14-year plan to modernize land-based armed forces. Mr. Zircon presenting his hypersonic business card across the Mare Nostrum is just a small part of the Big Picture.
The myth of U.S. power
The CIA abandoned Afghanistan in a humiliating retreat – even ditching the heroin ratline – just to relocate to Ukraine and continue playing the same old broken records. The CIA is behind the ongoing sabotage of Russian infrastructure – in tandem with MI6 and others. Sooner or later there will be blowback.
Few people – including CIA operatives – may know that New York City, for instance, may be destroyed with a single move: blowing up the George Washington bridge. The city can’t be supplied with food and most of its requirements without the bridge. The New York City electrical grid can be destroyed by knocking out the central controls; putting it back together could take a year.
Even trespassed by infinite layers of fog of war, the current situation in Ukraine is still a skirmish. The real war has not even started yet. It might – soon.
Apart from Ukraine and Poland there is no NATO force worth mentioning. Germany has a risible two-day supply of ammunition. Turkey will not send a single soldier to fight Russians in Ukraine.
Out of 80,000 U.S. troops stationed in Europe, only 10% are weaponized. Recently 20,000 were added, not a big deal. If the Americans activated their troops in Europe – something rather ridiculous in itself – they would not have any place to land supplies or reinforcements. All airports and seaports would be destroyed by Russian hypersonic missiles in a matter of minutes – in continental Europe as well as the UK.
In addition, all fuel centers such as Rotterdam for oil and natural gas would be destroyed, as well as all military installations, including top American bases in Europe: Grafenwoehr, Hohenfels, Ramstein, Baumholder, Vilseck, Spangdahlem, and Wiesbaden in Germany (for the Army and Air Force); Aviano Air Base in Italy; Lajes Air Base in Portugal’s Azores islands; Naval Station Rota in Spain; Incirlik Air Base in Turkey; and Royal Air Force stations Lakenheath and Mildenhall in the UK.
All fighter jets and bombers would be destroyed – after they land or while landed: there would be no place to land except on the autobahn, where they would be sitting ducks.
Patriot missiles are worthless – as the whole Global South saw in Saudi Arabia when they tried to knock out Houthi missiles coming from Yemen. Israel’s Iron Dome can’t even knock out all primitive missiles coming from Gaza.
U.S. military power is the supreme myth of the fish-to-be-fried variety. Essentially, they hide behind proxies – as the Ukraine Armed Forces. U.S. forces are worthless except in turkey shoots as in Iraq in 1991 and 2003, against a disabled opponent in the middle of the desert with no air cover. And never forget how NATO was completely humiliated by the Taliban.
The final breaking point
2022 ended an era: the final breaking point of the “rules-based international order” established after the fall of the U.S.S.R.
The Empire entered Desperation Row, throwing everything and the kitchen sink – proxy war on Ukraine, AUKUS, Taiwan hysteria – to dismantle the set-up they created way back in 1991.
Globalization’s rollback is being implemented by the Empire itself. That ranges from stealing the EU energy market from Russia so the hapless vassals buy ultra-expensive U.S. energy to smashing the entire semiconductor supply chain, forcibly rebuilding it around itself to “isolate” China.
The NATO vs. Russia war in Ukraine is just a cog in the wheel of the New Great Game. For the Global South, what really matters is how Eurasia – and beyond – are coordinating their integration process, from BRI to the BRICS+ expansion, from the SCO to the INSTC, from Opec+ to the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
We’re back to what the world looked like in 1914, or before 1939, only in a limited sense. There’s a plethora of nations struggling to expand their influence, but all of them are betting on multipolarity, or “peaceful modernization”, as Xi Jinping coined it, and not Forever Wars: China, Russia, India, Iran, Indonesia and others.
So bye-bye 1991-2022. The hard work starts now. Welcome to the New Great Game on crack.