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COVID Vaccines risk “sterilising an entire generation of Children” according to respected Doctor

<p><strong>COVID ‘vaccines’ risk “sterilising an entire generation of children”, as well as creating a “pandemic we cannot reign in” and “must be halted immediately”.</strong></p>
<p>That was the chilling message to ‘The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ (CDC) by a doctor with more than 30 years of scientific experience in toxicology and mechanistic biology.</p>
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<p>Dr Janci Chunn Lindsay, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Texas, believes the current batch of ‘vaccines’ – distributed only under Emergency Use Authorisation – are “gene therapy” and must be stopped due to safety concerns – believing they are actually “making the pandemic worse”.</p>
<p>In worrying developments worldwide, Governments are now increasing the pressure on parents to have their children ‘vaccinated’, despite kids being at virtually no risk of death from Covid-19.</p>
<p>In the US, almost 4,000 children have received an emergency Covid-19 injection and, from that figure, nine have died within 28 days of receiving it, seven almost died, three were permanently disabled and 71 had to see a doctor, were admitted to hospital or had their stay prolonged.</p>
<p>In the UK’s Yellow Card adverse event reporting system, ‘vaccines’ both the Government and NHS repeat are “safe and effective” have caused 755,568 adverse reactions, including blindness, brain damage, stroke and 1,102 deaths. It is thought that as low as one per cent of all adverse reactions and deaths are ever reported to this system.</p>
<p>Despite these figures, one teacher in the UK, Ed Stubbs from Morpeth School in Tower Hamlets, has released a document to tackle what he sees as “vaccine hesitancy” in children, after working alongside Queen Mary University London. These have now been published by the Stephen Hawking Foundation.</p>
<p>And Dr Chris Smith, a Consultant Virologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, said he thought vaccinating children was a good idea in the short term to give a “belt and braces” control of the virus because kids can “still catch it and pass it on”.</p>
<p>But with most of the vulnerable groups on both sides of the Atlantic having received at least one dose, parents will not doubt want to know who exactly their children are being protected from.</p>
<p>The majority of children experience mild or no symptoms of the virus, with a study by Stockholm University finding that kids aged 18 or under have a 99.9603 per cent chance of survival, even if they have one or more underlying conditions.</p>
<p>And in a public comment to the CDC as part of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Dr Lindsay emphasised her concerns.</p>
<p>She said: “In the mid 1990s, I aided in the development of a temporary human contraceptive vaccine, which ended up causing unintended autoimmune ovarian destruction and sterility in animal test models, despite efforts against this and sequence analyses that did not predict this.</p>
<p>“I strongly feel that all the gene-therapy vaccines must be halted immediately due to safety concerns on several fronts.</p>
<p>“First there is credible reason to believe that the gene therapies will cross react with the syncytin and reproductive proteins in sperm, ova and placenta and lead to impaired fertility and reproductive outcomes.</p>
<p>“Respected virologist Bill Gallaher made excellent arguments as to why you would expect cross reaction due to beta sheet conformation similarities between spike protein and SIN-1 and -2.</p>
<p>“I have yet to see a single immunological study which disproves this, despite the fact that it would literally take the manufacturers a single day to do these syncytin studies to ascertain this. It’s been over a year since the assertions were first made that this [the body attacking its own syncytin proteins due to similarity in spike protein structure] could occur.</p>
<p>“And there have [also] been reports of impaired spermatogenesis and placental findings from both the natural infection, vaccinated and syncytin knockout animal models that have similar placental pathology, implicating a syncytin-mediated role in these outcomes. </p>
<p>“Additionally, we have heard of multiple reports of menses irregularities in those vaccinated. These must be investigated.</p>
<p>“We simply cannot put these gene-therapy vaccines in our children who are at 0.002 per cent risk for Covid mortality if infected, or any more of the child-bearing age population without thoroughly investigating this matter – we could potentially sterilize an entire generation.</p>
<p>“Speculation that this will not occur and a few anecdotal reports of pregnancies in the new trials are not sufficient proof that this is not impacting on a population-wide scale.”</p>
<p>Dr Lindsay also spoke against the widely reported concerns of vaccine-induced blood disorders. Indeed, the group Doctors for Covid Ethics have called the current ‘vaccines’ “unnecessary, ineffective and unsafe” and have written to the European Medicines Agency three times, warning executive director Emer Cooke that cerebral venous thrombosis (CVST) dominates the list of adverse reactions from the ‘vaccines’.</p>
<p>Dr Lindsay said: “All of the gene therapies are causing coagulopathy. This is not isolated to one manufacturer and this is not isolated to one age group, as we are seeing coagulopathy deaths in healthy young adults with no secondary comorbidities.</p>
<p>“There have been 795 reports related to blood clotting disorder as of April 9 in the [US] VAERS reporting system, 338 of these being due to thrombocytopenia. There are forward and backward mechanistic proofs for why this is happening. The natural infection is known to cause coagulopathies due to the spike proteins. All gene-therapy vaccines direct the body to make the spike protein.</p>
<p>“Zhang et al in [a scientific paper published in the Journal of Hematology & Oncology] in September 2020 showed that if you infuse spike protein into mice that have humanized ACE-2 receptors on blood platelets that you also get disseminated thrombosis.</p>
<p>“Spike protein incubated with human blood in vitro also caused blood clot development which was resistant to fibrolysis. The spike protein that’s causing thrombocytic events, which cannot be resolved through natural means and all vaccines must be halted until they can be reformulated to guard against this diverse effect.”</p>
<p>Up against a three-minute time limit imposed on all public speakers at the meeting last week, Dr Lindsay was cut off while trying to make her third point, which she later gave in an interview with science journalist Jennifer Margulis.</p>
<p>Dr Lindsay said: “There is strong evidence for immune escape and that inoculation under pandemic pressure with these leaky vaccines is driving the creation of more lethal mutants that are both newly infecting a younger age demographic and causing more Covid-related deaths across the population than would have occurred without intervention. That is, there is evidence that the vaccines are making the pandemic worse.</p>
<p>“It is clear that we are seeing a temporal immune depression immediately following the inoculations [see World Meter Global Covid deaths counts following inoculation dates] and there are immunosuppressive regions on spike proteins, as well as Syn-2, that could be likely causing this, through a T-cell mediated mechanism. If we do not stop this vaccine campaign until these issues can be investigated, we may see a phenomenon such as we see in chickens with Marek’s disease.</p>
<p>“We have enough evidence now to see a clear correlation with increased Covid deaths and the vaccine campaigns. This is not a coincidence. It is an unfortunate unintended effect of the vaccines. We simply must not turn a blind eye and pretend this is not occurring. We must halt all Covid vaccine administration immediately, before we create a true pandemic that we cannot reign in.”</p>
<p>Last night Doctors for Covid Ethics, a group who have been working tirelessly in a bid to stop more lives being put at risk unnecessarily, reiterated their stance, calling the attempt to ‘vaccinate’ kids as “reckless”.</p>
<p>They said in a statement: “We welcome this call to stop these experimental injections for children because most children already have natural immunity to Covid.</p>
<p>“Furthermore, the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines has never been demonstrated in this age group. Based on the experience with other age groups and on initial results on children, it must be expected that the vaccination will harm and kill many more children than the virus ever would.</p>
<p>“Non life-threatening symptoms and long Covid do not in any way require vaccination. But the vaccines definitely have a risk of fatalities, somewhere between 1 in 50,000 to as many as 1 in 10,000.</p>
<p>“That means if we vaccinate 10 million children, we might expect up to 1000 previously healthy children to die.</p>
<p>“That is reckless, an abandonment of all the usual rules we work to, where we give our lives to give children a chance at life.”</p>
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Gates Divorce Shakes World's Biggest Family Philanthropy Engine

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<p class="ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b">Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce this week after 27 years of marriage.</p>
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<p>A young Bill and Melinda Gates, riding in the back of a truck, were on the continent for the first time in 1993 -- there to see animals, nature and discuss their priorities as a soon-to-be married couple. But what they saw sparked a broader conversation about the enormous fortune they'd already begun to amass.</p>
<p>"It was our first sustained look at extreme poverty," Melinda said in a speech in Abu Dhabi in 2016. It was "the beginning of our education about the challenges facing the world's poorest people."</p>
<p>It was also the beginning of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic behemoth the couple built over the course of their 27-year marriage, which ended this week. In their note announcing the split, they said they would continue running the foundation together.</p>
<p>Despite this assurance, news of the divorce sent a shock wave through the world of philanthropy.</p>
<p><strong>A Commitment To Giving</strong></p>
<p>In 2010, the Gateses, now worth about $145 billion, signed the Giving Pledge, a promise they co-created for the world's richest people to donate the majority of their wealth in their lifetime or will. They committed "the vast majority of our assets to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." It remains to be seen how that money will be distributed in the wake of their split.</p>
<p>The pledge is in no way legally binding, and Bill and Melinda have already explored other ways of giving back, tackling climate change and gender inequality, respectively, through their own investment firms. Their individual giving could expand now that there are two ultra-high-net worth households instead of one, said Elizabeth Dale, associate professor of nonprofit leadership at Seattle University.</p>
<p>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is no ordinary family philanthropy; it's the largest of its kind on the planet. With more than 1,600 employees and offices around the world, it has a $50 billion endowment, and has already distributed more than $50 billion since its inception to causes like vaccine development and women's empowerment. It rivals large countries in its support, contributing more resources to research and development to combat malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases.</p>
<p>It also has its ties to Wall Street.</p>
<p>The foundation trust distributes tens of millions of dollars in fees every year to investment managers and financial services firms. Some of the biggest recipients disclosed in the trust's most recent tax return included Marathon Asset Management, Wright Management, State Street Corporation and Green Court Capital Management, who all received more than $7 million in fees.</p>
<p>Any change to Bill or Melinda's involvement in the foundation would have a big impact because of its unusual board size. Bill and Melinda make up two-thirds of the foundation's trustees. The third member is their friend Warren Buffett, who has added more than $27 billion of his own money to the foundation's coffers over the past 15 years.</p>
<p>The Ford Foundation, which is roughly a fifth the size of the Gates Foundation, has 15 members on its board. The Rockefeller Foundation, at a 10th of the size, has no fewer than 12 at any time. And unlike those organizations, its living donors can influence its priorities and operations, said Greg Witkowski, a senior lecturer of nonprofit management at Columbia University.</p>
<p>Dale and Witkowski agree the split won't immediately impact the foundation or the grants that have already been promised, but it could impact its future depending on how the couple's approach to philanthropy evolves as they separate.</p>
<p><strong>Differing Approaches To Philanthropy</strong></p>
<p>Greg Ratliff, who worked at the Gates Foundation for 10 years and is now senior vice president of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, said their work was family-driven, meaning they only took on causes that Bill and Melinda were interested in. They each brought very different approaches to the work, he added.</p>
<p>"It was sort of head and heart, and Melinda brought the heart and the personal component," said Ratliff, who worked on education and education technology projects at the foundation. He remembers how Bill would gravitate toward whatever technology or tools they were implementing in the schools, and Melinda would look to the impact their work had on the students and teachers.</p>
<p>Dale said the fact that they have their own separate interests means their individual giving outside of the foundation could pick up.</p>
<p>That's what happened following Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott's divorce in 2019. As a couple, they weren't big philanthropists, especially relative to their $137 billion net worth at the time. Shortly after their split, Scott received a quarter of the former couple's Amazon.com Inc. stake, worth about $38 billion then. She signed the Giving Pledge and in 2020 went on a philanthropic tear, giving away almost $6 billion to hundreds of small organizations in a matter of months.</p>
<p>In other small coincidences, the Gates announcement of a split came in the form of a Twitter message, signed "Melinda Gates and Bill Gates," a departure from the "Bill and Melinda" on pretty much everything else the couple signs. And like Scott, Melinda has prominently embraced her maiden name since they announced the split, going by Melinda French Gates.</p>
<p>The two women have worked together on shared causes, including the Equality Can't Wait Challenge in 2020, a $30 million award to organizations that come up with ways to advance women's power by 2030.</p>
<p>In 2015, Melinda started Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company, "as a separate, independent organization" from the foundation to focus on solving issues impacting women and families. Bill also has his own side projects, like Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a fund that fights climate change by investing in green startups.</p>
<p><strong>Dividing The Assets</strong></p>
<p>How the Gates fortune is split could determine which causes get more attention. Their complicated holdings have already begun untangling, with more than $2 billion transferred to Melinda this week alone. The bulk of it is from about 14.1 million shares in Canadian National Railway Co.</p>
<p>For now, the foundation is projecting an image of calm.</p>
<p>Carla Sandine, spokesperson for PATH, a global health non-profit and major grantee of the Gates Foundation, said they've heard the same thing as everyone else: nothing is going to change.</p>
<p>"I think we have to trust that," said Sandine. PATH, based in Seattle, has received more than $2.2 billion from the Gates Foundation.</p>
<p>The fact that the divorce of two people has caused so much anxiety and uncertainty in the nonprofit world highlights the problems with the modern philanthropy model, said Erica Foldy, associate professor of public and nonprofit management at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.</p>
<p>"What a few individuals decide to do has a massive impact on the health and well-being of millions or even billions of people," Foldy said.</p>
<p>Sandine agrees that it's frustrating that the world depends on the generosity of individuals to solve its problems.</p>
<p>"I think the fact that we would even talk about the future of global public health hinging on the relationship between individuals, I think it's reflective of a larger problem," Sandine said. "Public health around the world is not properly funded, so Bill and Melinda Gates have been filling massive gaps."</p>
<p><em>--With assistance from Tom Maloney.</em></p>
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Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce this week after 27 years of marriage. A young Bill and Melinda Gates, riding in the back ...