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PARIS - The Free Iran World Summit kicked off Saturday with a bonanza of rallies and demonstrations across Europe, including Berlin, and Paris, where the National Council of Resistance of Iran has its government-in-exile.

The focus of this year's annual event is accountability for the regime for its atrocities against its own citizens.

"Cruelty was the point of the regime's atrocities of torture and repression, to breed fear, to silence the opposition," declared Keith Harper, former US Ambassador to the Human Rights Council.

"Canada finally has designated the IRCG as a terrorist entity, and was long overdue," said Senator MacDonald of Canada.

Ingrid Betancourt, a Colombian politician and former Senator, who was kidnapped by the  Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, confirmed Iranian operatives have infiltrated Western governments and media, preventing a confrontation with Iran over its behavior, and fostering a delay in stopping the mullah's nuclear program.

"This regime is a monster on the verge of extinction," she declared passionately to the world gathering.

"We need international support for regime change in Iran. The IRCG has employed an aggressive strategy to smear the MEK, its political opposition, by spreading false information."

The Biden regime was accused of enabling this tyranny by openly financially supporting the regime, as well as diplomatically.

Betancourt reacted indignantly when she described the disgust she felt when French newspapers published articles literally fed to them by the Iranian intelligence services, spreading its propaganda.

"The United States needs to support efforts at regime change by the people in Iran. We need to put maximum political pressure on the mullahs," declared Senator Sam Brownback, former US Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedoms.

"The days of dictatorship in Iran are coming to an end," Brownback added.

There was a palpable acknowledgement that the death of Iranian President Raisi in a recent helicopter crash, opened the door for regime change in Tehran due to the succession problem created.

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Another criminal referral to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) soon may be made by members of the US Congress to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci for lying under oath to Congress which is a felony crime. Representative Jim Comer, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, soon may follow Senator Rand Paul in requesting the DOJ to criminally investigate Fauci for lying under oath to Congress.

But lying to Congress does not even begin to compare with nor address the horrendous amount of suffering and death caused by the toxic health care policies and hospital protocols developed and promulgated by Anthony Fauci and many of the officials listed herein. In this regard, these officials bear “superior responsibility” for the health care policies and toxic protocols that killed tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Americans during the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

Rather than hope for a bona fide DOJ investigation of Anthony Fauci and other high-ranking officials for alleged federal crimes, efforts are underway at the state level in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana to have criminal investigations conducted based on violations of state criminal codes. If the investigations establish sufficient probable cause of crimes being committed, then the accused individuals can and should be indicted and prosecuted to the full extent of state law.

Each of the legal briefs described herein contains extensive evidence of state crimes committed. The briefs include numerous hand-written letters submitted by aggrieved next-of-kin family members requesting the criminal investigations. Contact information for details about COVID-19 victims in each of the three states is also provided.

The Florida, Texas, and Louisiana attorneys general and district attorneys need to honor their citizens’ requests for justice and accountability for the deaths of their loved ones. Further, these public officials swore an oath to stand for justice and protect the rights and lives of their respective citizenry. Now is the time for these public servants to courageously and rightly pursue truth and justice on behalf of their aggrieved citizens and their lost loved ones.

Below is a brief summary of the Florida, Texas, and Louisiana legal briefs:

FLORIDA: In October 2023, a 20-page legal brief with exhibits was submitted by attorneys, including an ex-prosecutor, to the Florida Attorney General and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The extensive legal brief requests investigation and subsequent indictment and prosecution of the below named individuals for alleged state-wide covid-related criminal offenses committed against tens of thousands of Floridians. To date, little, if any, action has been taken on this request.

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The request was made on behalf of the next-of-kin relatives of 32 victims in Florida who request investigation into the deaths of their loved ones under toxic COVID-19 hospital protocols, intentional COVID-19 infection mismanagement, and suppression and denial of life-saving treatments in Florida hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities.

The accused include:

- Anthony Fauci, ex-Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

- Cliff Lane, Deputy Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

- Francis Collins, ex-Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

- Deborah Birx, ex-White House COVID Response Coordinator & former Director of DOD

HIV Research at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

- Rochelle Walensky, ex-Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

- Stephen Hahn, ex-Commissioner, Federal Drug Administration (FDA)

- The Administrators of hospital systems providing care to patients in Florida, including but

not limited to AdventHealth Hospital Organization

Alleged violations of Florida criminal code include:

- Murder while Committing Acts of Terrorism, Fl Stat §782.04;

- Murder while Committing Aggravated Abuse of the Elderly and Disabled Adults, Fl. Stat. §782.04;

- Aggravated Manslaughter of the Elderly, Disabled Adults, and Children, Fl. Stat. §782.07;

- Florida Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO), Fl. Stat. §895.03

TEXAS: In March 2024, a 26-page legal brief with exhibits was submitted by attorneys to the district attorneys of 22 Texas counties to initiate criminal investigations of Anthony Fauci and other officials for alleged covid-related crimes committed against citizens of Texas. The criminal referral requests (to be sent to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton) were submitted to the district attorneys for Angelina, Bexar, Brazos, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Fort Bend, Galveston, Guadalupe, Grayson, Gregg, Harris, Hays, Johnson, Lubbock, Montgomery, Smith, Tarrant, Tom Green, Travis, and Wise counties. Current status of the referral requests is unknown at present.

The requests were made on behalf of the next-of-kin relatives of 46 victims in Texas who request investigation into the deaths of their loved ones under toxic COVID-19 hospital protocols, intentional COVID-19 infection mismanagement, and suppression and denial of life-saving treatments in Texas hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities.

The accused include the same individuals in the above Florida filing with the addition of the following officials:

- Robert Redfield, ex-Director, CDC

- Peter Daszak, President, Eco-Health Alliance

- Rick Bright, Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority

- The Administrators and Healthcare Providers of hospital systems and facilities providing care

To patients in Texas, including but not limited to Baylor, Scott, & White Hospital System.

Alleged violations of Texas criminal code include:

- Capital Murder – Tex. Penal Code §19.03(a)(7);

- Manslaughter – Tex. Penal Code §19.04;

- Trafficking of Persons – Tex. Penal Code §20A.02;

- Participation in enterprise through racketeering or unlawful debt collection – Tex. Penal Code §72.04 by Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity – Tex. Penal Code §71.02;

- Injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual – Tex. Penal Code §22.04

LOUISIANA: Next-of-kin relatives of nine Louisianians (victims) request investigation into the deaths of their lost loved ones under toxic COVID-19 hospital protocols, intentional COVID-19 infection mismanagement, and suppression and denial of life-saving treatments in Louisiana hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities. In response to their requests, attorneys have prepared an extensive 30-page legal brief with exhibits that soon will be submitted to the Louisianna attorney general and applicable district attorneys.

The accused include the same individuals listed in the Florida and Texas legal briefs.

Alleged violations of Louisiana criminal code include:

- Terrorism – by Causing Intentional Killing or Infliction of Serious Bodily Injury, La. R.S. 14:128.1(A);

- First Degree Murder, La. R.S. 14:30 and Second Degree Murder, La. R.S. 14:30.1;

- Manslaughter, La. R.S. 14:31(A)(3);

- Prohibited Racketeering Acts, La. R.S. 15:1353;

- Cruelty to Persons with Infirmities, La. R.S. 14:93.3;

- False Imprisonment, La. R.S. 14:46 and Second Degree Kidnapping, La. R.S. 14:44.1

A FINAL THOUGHT: The late evangelist Billy Graham once said: “Courage is contagious---when a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” America desperately needs at least one brave prosecutor to lead in courageously pursuing truth and justice on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of aggrieved next-of-kin families who wrongfully lost loved ones during the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul S. Gardiner is a retired Army officer, Vietnam veteran, and avid lover of America. He has assisted attorneys in identifying next-of-kin family members in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana who lost loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sudan is collapsing as violence expands beyond Khartoum and Omdurman to Darfur and across the country and could bleed into a massive regional and international conflict.  

It’s a recipe for a prolonged colossal crises and humanitarian travesty that could devastate other countries in the Middle East and other parts of Africa and beyond. 

The two warring factions inside Sudan have tens of thousands of supporters - some national - some foreign - and both sides are banking they will win because whoever wins may be the next President of Sudan. 

Alternatively, the loser may end up dead, arrested or forced into exile. 

In the meantime, the suffering is exploding and reverting to what gripped Sudan in past years between Sudan and now, Southern Sudan. 

Sudan is not sustaining the nearly two weeks old crises that has been simmering since the military takeover upended Sudan’s transition to democratic rule after three decades of repression and international isolation under former President Omar al-Bashir. 

Sudan’s economy has been in a free fall with rising inflation even before the last two weeks ignited. 

But, in the last two weeks, electricity has been out in parts of Khartoum and Omdurman. There is a lack of access to food and water, and disruptions to essential health services with nearly 60% of the hospitals inoperable, and only 16% of health facilities operable with enough medicine and supplies. 

The fighting makes it impossible for civilians to get to paramedics, nurses and doctors and those with chronic diseases abandoned. Pregnant women have no access to maternal care and tens of thousands are due to give birth in the next few weeks.

The risk of diseases is ever higher because the disrupted water supply has forced the public to drink river water to survive. With electricity down, the blood stock stored in the Central Blood Bank is unusable. 

General Abdel Fattah Burhan, head of the Sudanese armed forces, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at this point are in a gladiator’s fight to seek control of Sudan. 

This Battle of Dominance comes two years after they jointly carried out a military coup and derailed a transition to democracy that had begun after protesters in 2019 forced the ouster of former President Omar al-Bashir. 

Alex De Waal at Tufts University has been one of the leading experts on Sudan for decades.

He recently wrote that the conflict should be seen at this stage as “the first round of a civil war.” 

“Unless it is swiftly ended, the conflict will become a multi-level game with regional and some international actors pursuing their interests, using money, arms supplies and possibly their own troops or proxies,” De Wall wrote in a memo to colleagues recently.

Sudan shares its waters with Egypt and Ethiopia. Egypt relies on the Nile and Ethiopia is working on a massive upstream dam that has alarmed both Cairo and Khartoum.

Egypt has close ties to Burhan, which it sees as an ally against Ethiopia. Cairo has reached out to both sides in Sudan to press for a cease-fire but is unlikely to stand by if the Burhan’s military faces defeat.

Sudan borders five additional countries: Libya, Chad, the Central African Republic, Eritrea and South Sudan, which seceded from Sudan in 2011 and took 75% of Khartoum’s oil resources with it. 

Nearly all the countries are mired in their own internal conflicts, with various rebel groups operating along the Sudan borders.

The spillover to other countries could turn an internal fight into regional and international disasters with unintended and yet unforeseen consequences. 

The United Arab Emirates with its rising military ambitions expanded its presence across the Middle East and East Africa. It has close ties to the Rapid Support Forces, who sent thousands of fighters to aid the UAE and Saudi Arabia in their war against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Russia, meanwhile, has long harbored plans to build a naval base capable of hosting up to 300 troops and four ships in Port Sudan, on a Red Sea trading route for energy shipments to Europe.

Russians have been inside Sudan since at least 2017 because of Sudan’s gold. Kenya has investments in agriculture for over a decade. 

And, then there is China, which has deep economic ties with Sudan for decades. 

Their oil-based relationship reverts to 1959 and grew into a trading partnership. The China National Petroleum Corporation acquired 40% of a stake in a Sudanese oil consortium. There are more than 130 Chinese companies operating inside Sudan as of 2022. China is Sudan’s second largest trading partner. 

Although China has not taken either side in the current crises, they have called for peace. 

“We call on the two sides to stop fighting as soon as possible and prevent further escalation. We hope parties in Sudan will increase dialogue and jointly move forward the political transition process,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin said last Friday. 

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In the last 24 hours, the Chinese PLA’s Southern Theatre Command sent a fleet to Sudan consisting of three vessels – a destroyer, a frigate and a replenishment ship – as well as two shipborne helicopters and more than 700 military personnel to evacuate its citizens in the Sudan. 

And, then this is Israel - the U.S. took Sudan off a state sponsor of terrorism list resulting from the time when al-Bashir had allowed Osama bin Laden to stay in the country, but only when Sudan forged ties with Israel in 2020.

According to De Wall, sorting this out won’t be easy. 

“Control over political funds will be no less decisive than the battlefield. (The military) will want to take control of gold mines and smuggling routes. The RSF will want to interrupt major transport arteries including the road from Port Sudan to Khartoum,” predicts DeWaal. 

The negotiating table will be large and the terms complicated. 

“The external mediators risk becoming a traffic jam with no policeman,” says De Waal.

But, for now, as the war rages on, nearly 16 million are in need of humanitarian aid. That is almost 1/3 of the country’s population putting international NGOs and United Nations grabbing at straws to see what happens next. 

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During a recent experts’ meeting on the issue of prosecuting individual actors for war crimes, the international media interviewed Milos Ivkovic, international arbitrator and adj. professor at Washington University School of Law. The coverage of that exchange is presented, below:

Professor Ivkovic has been regularly engaged in matters of confronting human rights violations and holding international powers accountable for their abuses of international law.

Q: We are just past the one-year anniversary of Russia's aggressive actions unfolding in Ukraine. You've contended, as the Chicago Tribune has previously covered, that it is possible to prosecute individual actors for war crimes not dissimilar to what we are seeing in and around Kyiv. But how does one go about this?

Milos Ivkovic: Aggression against any sovereign country is a crime under international law. It is regarded as one of the highest international crimes a country and its officials may commit. As of the first day of the war, all relevant elements of this crime were a part of the record and, hence, prosecutable. Regretfully, there was no proper legal response taken yet. In the meantime, we hear alarming examples of war crimes and crimes against humanity on a daily basis, such as forced displacement of civilians, utilization of mercenaries, indiscriminate civilian targeting or the destruction of settlements and energy sites used by and for civilian population. All of these actions should be prosecuted as war crimes. The same applies to cluster bombs and unguided missiles deliberately unleashed on residential areas, amounting to prohibited use of illegal weapons. Finally, there is sufficient evidence to prompt an international investigation of the crime of genocide, which could lead to the prosecution of those responsible. If the intention of the invasion is not to fully destroy the national group, but to remove them, then we talk about ethnic cleansing. So, back to your question as to whether there are international crimes on the public record on a substantive level – absolutely, yes.

On a procedural level, the crime of aggression, as well as most of the referenced crimes which followed, are unquestionably regarded as breaches of peremptory norms, defined as fundamental and binding principles accepted by the entire international community, from which no derogation up to any degree is permitted. No national or international law may exclude liability or responsibility for the crimes classified as breaches of peremptory norms. Meaning – not only that perpetrators of these crimes can be prosecuted, but they must be prosecuted. Addressing these crimes according to international law is the highest obligation of every international actor, of every state. Obstruction by UN bodies, such as at the level of the UN Security Council, does not affect or suspend the obligation to act. According to the International Court of Justice standing practice, when the UN Security Council acts in breach of peremptory norms, or by its actions even indirectly furthers such breaches, countries must disregard the UN Security Council and act to protect fundamental principles enshrined in the peremptory norms. Simply put, every single nation state may enact a bill and instruct its prosecutors to prosecute these war crimes, as each and every country on this planet may avail itself of the power to impose sanctions in order to stop these crimes from reoccurring in Ukraine.

On that note, some may think that sanctions are a powerful tool and, therefore, render persecution somewhat obsolete. Indeed, sanctions are an immensely important, powerful mechanism which ought to be implemented in the present circumstances. However, sanctions may be broadly understood as having the nature of injunctive relief, temporary measure. Their objective is to counter an illegal act and force it to stop. However, according to international law, sanctions can neither be punitive nor lead to punishment of perpetrators of these crimes. It is therefore that sanctions do not and cannot substitute prosecution.  

Q: As an adjunct professor of law, what provoked you to call for action?

Milos Ivkovic: It is my strong belief that the call for action is perfectly aligned with the will and intention of the international community, prosecutors, judges, professors of law, who all in their respective fields are vocal about the need for prosecution for arguably most egregious violations of international law in decades, and that at hands of a nuclear power. Witnessing millions of civilians running for their lives, settlements destroyed, rules imposed by mercenaries and a truly devastating death toll pleads to us all who may have a voice to use it clearly. The world has gotten into a dangerous spiral of silence and inaction in response to the demolition of basic values and laws happening throughout the world, from the reappearance of concentration camps to child labor and effective slavery. If there is not a clear precedent that every time these crimes take place, they will be prosecuted, we are risking the world order, as we know it, to collapse. And that historically had disastrous consequences. I remain in hope that our representatives worldwide do understand the responsibility they carry.

Q: So, in your view, how has the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia failed the people of Ukraine?

Milos Ivkovic: No, I would not say that economic sanctions failed the people of Ukraine. Sanctions, in my view, were warranted, proper and necessary considering the gross violations of international law. They achieved a unified immediate response in confronting the aggression, blocked significant Russian capital both in Russia and worldwide, and triggered criminal consequences for those who attempted to avoid or circumvent sanctions. Even “neutral” states, such as Switzerland, act in accordance with the international sanctions. Sanctions are in summary achieving the best possible result, appreciating their rather limited nature. As stated before, sanctions will not bring anybody behind bars. Sanctions are equally not to be confused with indictments, hence without legal power to force prosecution or action of any court or tribunal. And that is, exactly, a problem. Crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, crime of aggression – they are requiring significant legal consequences. They warrant significant record, historical record, that this may not ever happen again. Sanctions themselves cannot achieve this result.

Q: Do you see this war escalating and how do you envision the practical application-oriented next steps regarding your thinking on personal prosecution?

Milos Ivkovic: In all honesty, the war in Ukraine has been escalating since its beginning in front of our eyes. Days ago, we received yet another threat of nuclear escalation. Millions of refugees from Ukraine have crossed borders into Europe. The human toll in Ukraine is reaching unprecedented levels. So, escalation is at our doorsteps, now. Whether criminal persecution may further escalate the current situation is, rather, a hypothetical – and a wrong one at that. Should we refuse to prosecute terrorists based on fear of further terrorist acts? No. The objective of criminal prosecution is not only to punish those engaged in criminal activities, but also the one of deterrence, i.e., sending a strong message to everybody else, not to dare engaging in similar illegal activities in the future. Additionally, if not even more important, prosecution gives some, admittedly remote, hope of justice for all those who lost their family members, loved ones, homes, past and future. I would hope that the nature of criminal law may deescalate the situation, especially if it is based on real evidence, which is available to the international community, as it should be, in all international proceedings.

Q:  What would your call to action be to the US policy making community, to the West; what can be done to circumvent the ingrained bureaucracy of the United Nations (UN) and to allow there to be some sort of safeguard from this perpetuating month to month, into yet another year of encroachment?

Milos Ivkovic: The press coverage in the past year has been largely conveying the narrative of a lack of power to resolve the deadlock at the UN Security Council level, hence resulting in the perceived inability to form international tribunals and prosecute war crimes committed in Ukraine. According to the only reasonable interpretation of the standing international law, the two permanent members of the UN Security Council who object to any Resolution in this respect are acting in breach of peremptory norms, rendering the UN Security Council unable to conform with its duties and obliging the countries to act independent of UN Security Council in this respect. All countries who would refuse to act may be regarded as complicit and hence furthering the war crimes currently taking place. A “neutral” status of some countries is completely irrelevant in this respect as national determination of neutrality does not suspend or derogate the obligation to protect peremptory norms. In layman’s terms: Canadian prosecutors, French prosecutors, UK prosecutors, US prosecutors, may be granted power by local laws to prosecute these crimes. The only obstacle in the way of the prosecution is of domestic nature. If counties want to establish an ad hoc tribunal, they may do so – equally as they may commence criminal proceedings themselves in their independent capacity. So long as basic human rights and due process guarantees are recognized with respect to therewith indicted, the judgements established by these tribunals will be enforceable worldwide and will correspond to the historical record of what is happening now in Ukraine.

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Reprinted with permission Mises Institute Raushan Gross

People are arguing over whether artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will eliminate human employment. People seem to have an all-or-nothing belief that either the use of technology in the workplace will destroy human employment and purpose or it won’t affect it at all. The replacement of human jobs with robotics and AI is known as “technological unemployment.”

Although robotics can turn materials into economic goods in a fraction of the time it would take a human, in some cases using minimal human energy, some claim that AI and robotics will actually bring about increasing human employment. According to a 2020 Forbes projection, AI and robotics will be a strong creator of jobs and work for people across the globe in the near future. However, also in 2020, Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo published a study that projected negative job growth when AI and robotics replace human jobs, predicting significant job loss each time a robot replaces a human in the workplace. But two years later, an article in The Economist showed that many economists have backtracked on their projection of a high unemployment rate due to AI and robotics in the workplace. According to the 2022 Economist article, “Fears of a prolonged period of high unemployment did not come to pass. . . . The gloomy narrative, which says that an invasion of job-killing robots is just around the corner, has for decades had an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination.” So which scenario is correct?

Contrary to popular belief, no industrialized nation has ever completely replaced human energy with technology in the workplace. For instance, the steam shovel never put construction workers out of work; whether people want to work in construction is a different question. And bicycles did not become obsolete because of vehicle manufacturing: “Consumer spending on bicycles and accessories peaked at $8.3 billion in 2021,” according to an article from the World Economic Forum.

Do people generally think AI and robotics can run an economy without human involvement, energy, ingenuity, and cooperation? While AI and robotics have boosted economies, they cannot plan or run an economy or create technological unemployment worldwide. “Some countries are in better shape to join the AI competition than others,” according to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Although an accurate statement, it misses the fact that productive economies adapt to technological changes better than nonproductive economies. Put another way, productive people are even more effective when they use technology. Firms using AI and robotics can lower production costs, lower prices, and stimulate demand; hence, employment grows if demand and therefore production increase. In the unlikely event that AI or robotic productive technology does not lower a firm’s prices and production costs, employment opportunities will decline in that industry, but employment will shift elsewhere, potentially expanding another industry’s capacity. This industry may then increase its use of AI and robotics, creating more employment opportunities there.

In the not-so-distant past, office administrators did not know how to use computers, but when the computer entered the workplace, it did not eliminate administrative employment as was initially predicted. Now here we are, walking around with minicomputers in our pants pockets. The introduction of the desktop computer did not eliminate human administrative workers—on the contrary, the computer has provided more employment since its introduction in the workplace. Employees and business owners, sometimes separated by time and space, use all sorts of technological devices, communicate with one another across vast networks, and can be increasingly productive.

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I remember attending a retirement party held by a company where I worked decades ago. The retiring employee told us all a story about when the company brought in its first computer back in the late ’60s. The retiree recalled, “The boss said we were going to use computers instead of typewriters and paper to handle administrative tasks. The next day, her department went from a staff of thirty to a staff of five.” The day after the department installed computers, twenty-five people left the company to seek jobs elsewhere so they would not “have to learn and deal with them darn computers.”

People often become afraid of losing their jobs when firms introduce new technology, particularly technology that is able to replicate human tasks. However, mass unemployment due to technological innovation has never happened in any industrialized nation. The notion that AI will disemploy humans in the marketplace is unfounded. Mike Thomas noted in his article “Robots and AI Taking Over Jobs: What to Know about the Future of Jobs” that “artificial intelligence is poised to eliminate millions of current jobs—and create millions of new ones.” The social angst about the future of AI and robotics is reminiscent of the early nineteenth-century Luddites of England and their fear of replacement technology. Luddites, heavily employed in the textile industry, feared the weaving machine would take their jobs. They traveled throughout England breaking and vandalizing machines and new manufacturing technology because of their fear of technological unemployment. However, as the textile industry there became capitalized, employment in that industry actually grew. History tells us that technology drives the increase of work and jobs for humans, not the opposite.

We should look forward to unskilled and semiskilled workers’ upgrading from monotonous work because of AI and robotics. Of course, AI and robotics will have varying effects on different sectors; but as a whole, they are enablers and amplifiers of human work. As noted, the steam shovel did not disemploy construction workers. The taxi industry was not eliminated because of Uber’s technology; if anything, Uber’s new AI technology lowered the barriers of entry to the taxi industry. Musicians were not eliminated when music was digitized; instead, this innovation gave musicians larger platforms and audiences, allowing them to reach millions of people with the swipe of a screen. And dating apps running on AI have helped millions of people fall in love and live happily ever after.

Raushan Gross is an Associate Professor of Business Management at Pfeiffer University. His works include Basic Entrepreneurship, Management and Strategy, and the e-book The Inspiring Life and Beneficial Impact of Entrepreneurs.

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Story at a glance:

• Will Harris is a regenerative farming pioneer who runs White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia.
• He produces high-quality grass-fed products, including beef and other animal products, and is an inspirational example of how to convert from conventional to regenerative agriculture and thrive financially.
• Regenerative agriculture, Harris says, “is a kinder, gentler agriculture … we call it biomimicry, the emulation of nature.”
• While it’s an imperfect emulation, it helps to restore the natural cycles that have been broken by industrial farming.
• Every agricultural county in the U.S. could replicate what Harris is doing to create sustainably grown food and improved communities.
• Toward that end, he and his team created the Center for Agricultural Resilience to educate thought leaders on the benefits of building animal, plant and human ecosystems that can nourish communities instead of destroying them.

Will Harris is a regenerative farming pioneer who runs White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia. He produces high-quality grass-fed products, including beef and other animal products, and is an inspirational example of how to convert from conventional to regenerative agriculture and thrive financially.

Prior to the mid-’90s, Harris ran his farm the way his father and most every other farmer in the country had — “as a very linear, monocultural cattle operation,” he says during an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “The factory farm model.”

He now practices what he describes as regenerative agriculture, warning that it’s only a matter of time before Big Ag corrupts this term “and takes it away from us.” Regenerative agriculture, Harris says, “is a kinder, gentler agriculture … we call it biomimicry, the emulation of nature.”

While it’s an imperfect emulation, it helps to restore the natural cycles that have been broken by industrial farming.

As noted on the White Oak Pastures webpage:

“Regenerative agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that seeks to rehabilitate and enhance the entire ecosystem of the farm by placing a heavy focus on soil health with attention also paid to water management, fertilizer use, and more.”

There are major differences in cows raised on grass versus grains. Those fed grass would have a life expectancy of about 20 years, but Harris states that feedlot cows are so unhealthy at slaughter, he doubts they’d live much more than about three years.

Harris says:

“You’re eating an unnaturally obese creature that would never occur in nature and is slowly dying of the same diseases of a sedentary lifestyle, the obesity that’ll eventually kill most of us.”

‘Animal welfare was the canary in the coal mine’

When Harris was in his 40s, he became increasingly aware of the pitfalls of the industrialized model of farming. “Animal welfare was the canary in the coal mine,” he tells Rogan.

He previously believed that “good animal welfare” included keeping the animal well fed and watered, in a comfortable temperature range, and not intentionally inflicting pain and suffering. It’s the definition of animal welfare that many still use today.

Harris realized, however, that true animal welfare involves giving the animal an environment where it can express instinctive behavior. He says:

“Chickens are meant to scratch and peck. Hogs are meant to root and wallow. Cows are meant to … graze. But in the CAFO confined model, those instinctive behaviors are not an option for them.”

He changed his cattle operations after this realization. He also quit feeding the cattle chicken litter, which is chicken feces — a widely used, cheap protein source in feedlots.

“Most of my transition from what I did 25 years ago to what I do today involved just giving up products and techniques,” Harris says, adding that it’s the misapplication of technology that makes agriculture so destructive today. “Reductive science, technology, does not lend itself to living systems.”

In terms of the land, agriculture is misusing cultivation, chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides, which leads to unintended and unseen changes.

When chemical fertilizers are applied, they lead to noticeable changes in growth, but what you don’t see, Harris explains, “is that fertilizer oxidized the carbon, the organic matter, in the ground. It killed the microbes in the soil. It had other negative chemical impacts, but you couldn’t see them.”

When chemical fertilizers were first widely used, their long-term destruction to the environment was largely unknown. It’s only recently that the importance of soil biology is being recognized.

Downfalls of industrialized farming

Before switching to regenerative farming, Harris spent 20 years operating the farm industrially, including using antibiotics and hormone implants to make cows grow faster. But the technologies that industrial agriculture relies on to “improve” food production are destructive.

“Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, GMOs, subtherapeutic antibiotics and hormone implants … These technologies result in horrible, unintended consequences that adversely affect our land, water, climate, and livestock,” Harris wrote on his blog.

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Further, they’ve allowed agriculture to become scalable to the point that a limited number of multinational corporations control most of the food supply. A centralized food system benefits no one but those who control it, and puts consumers at risk.

Harris explained:

“The centralization of food production impoverishes our rural communities as it creates an oligopoly. This centralization of food production is also bad for consumers. This system lacks resilience.

“When mega-production facilities that are focused on efficiency break down, consumers’ access to food can become limited, which causes panic. This state of panic allows multinational companies to increase their profits exponentially.

“When the driving goal of our food production system is efficiency, as opposed to resiliency, consumers suffer.”

Meanwhile, Harris says, the way food and fiber are industrially produced causes farming to be “wastefully abundant and seemingly cheap.” Rogan asks Harris if there’s a way to produce the massive amounts of corn, soy and cotton currently produced regeneratively.

Harris responds, “I think it’s the wrong question … it’s a matter of living off of what we can produce. How many T-shirts [from cotton] do you have to have?”

Embracing regenerative farming for health

Harris’ farming methods now represent the opposite of the industrialized approach, demonstrating how you can convert conventionally farmed land into a healthy, thriving farm based on regenerative methods. At White Oak Pastures, they’ve:

• De-commoditized — Instead of relying on commodities, they produce five types of pastured red meats, five types of pastured poultry, pastured eggs and organic vegetables.
• De-industrialized — Instead of operating as a monoculture that grows one destructive crop, like GE soy, they’ve created a living ecosystem that includes 10 species of humanely treated animals that live in a symbiotic relationship. All of their land is managed using holistic principles.
• De-centralized — They were able to break away from the centralized food processing system, building their own abattoirs (slaughterhouses) to retain control of the quality of their products.

The industrialization of agriculture destroyed the land, while “centralizing agriculture impoverished rural America,” Harris says. “It caused it to be financially irrelevant. It just wasn’t needed anymore.”

But farming the way Harris does enriches the land and provides jobs for those in the community. He says:

“I’ve got 180 employees. My payroll is $100,000 every Friday in one of the poorest counties in America, and the town has gone from being a ghost town to  becoming a destination.”

Every agricultural county in the U.S. could replicate what Harris is doing to create sustainably grown food and improved communities.

Toward that end, he and his team created the Center for Agricultural Resilience to educate thought leaders on the benefits of building animal, plant and human ecosystems that can nourish communities instead of destroying them.

Regenerative farming restores the land

Harris tells Rogan that he has the utmost respect for vegans and vegetarians who choose not to eat meat because they oppose eating animals. But he’ll give you an ear full if you tell him you won’t eat meat because it’s destroying the planet.

When farming is done regeneratively, it will help to restore the land and even improve the damage done by industrial methods. And animals are an integral, and necessary, part of the restorative process.

“We are sequestering 3.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent for every pound of grass-fed beef we sell. Ironically, the same environmental engineers did an analysis on Impossible Burgers,” Harris says. “They’re emitting 3.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent.”

In fact, Impossible Foods, maker of fake meat, plant-based “burgers,” claimed they have a better carbon footprint than live animal farms and hired Quantis, a group of scientists and strategists, to prove their point.

According to the executive summary, their product reduced environmental impact between 87% and 96% in the categories studied, including land occupation and water consumption.

This, however, compares fake meat to meat from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), which are notoriously destructive to the environment and nothing like Harris’ farm.

Harris commissioned the same analysis by Quantis and published a 33-page study showing comparisons of White Oaks Pastures emissions against conventional beef production.

While the manufactured fake meat reduced its carbon footprint up to 96% in some categories, White Oaks had a net total emission in the negative numbers as compared to CAFO-produced meat.

Further, grass-fed beef from White Oak Pastures had a carbon footprint that was 111% lower than a typical U.S. CAFO, and its regenerative system effectively captured soil carbon, which offset the majority of emissions related to beef production.

“The WOP [White Oak Pastures] system effectively captures soil carbon, offsetting a majority of the emissions related to beef production,” the report stated. “In the best case, the WOP beef production may have a net positive effect on climate. The results show great potential.”

So in addition to a focus on animal welfare, Harris’ regenerative farming methods go beyond sustainable farming to land regeneration. “We believe farming must not only be sustainable, it has to be regenerative to rebuild our soil,” White Oak Pastures’ website reads.

At White Oak Pastures:

• Holistic planned grazing methods naturally sequester carbon, control erosion and increase organic matter in soil.
• A life cycle assessment found that their farm is storing more carbon in the soil than their grass-fed cows emit during their lifetime.
• Former commodity cropland is acquired and regenerated into perennial pasture every year.
• They’ve partnered with a nearby 2,400-acre solar farm to provide planned livestock grazing and regenerative land management.

Where to find grass-fed foods

The majority of meat products sold in the U.S. come from CAFOs, not grass-fed farms. To protect the environment and your health, as well as support animal welfare, seek out foods from small farmers using regenerative agriculture practices.

One useful option is to look for the American Grassfed Association logo on meat and dairy, which ensures the animals were born and raised on American family farms, fed only grass and forage from weaning until harvest, and raised on pasture without confinement to feedlots.

You can also get to know a local farmer using regenerative methods near you. Regenerative International, incorporated in 2014, built a global network of regenerative farmers and ranchers, with some 400 affiliates in 60 countries.

You can find a map of these regenerative farms on RegenerationInternational.org to secure a source of sustainable food near you.

Originally published on Mercola.

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Dr. Flavio Cadegiani, a Brazilian endocrinologist, suspects that the worst has yet to come for spike protein-induced diseases in the endocrine system.

The endocrine system, colloquially known as the hormone system, is critical for our health. It regulates growth and development, mood, metabolism, reproduction, immunity and functions of other organs through the secretion of hormones.

Hormones are one of the three biggest messengers in the body. Compared to the two other messengers — neurotransmitters and cytokines — hormones are slower in responding, and have systemic functions across the body rather than localized actions.

While cells can usually respond to neurotransmitters in milliseconds and cytokines in minutes to hours, cells that respond to hormones can take hours or even weeks.

Since hormones can have slow and systemic actions, a dysfunctional or damaged endocrine system will generally be slow in its symptom onset and recovery.

Studies have shown that spike proteins from COVID-19 infection and the vaccines can damage endocrine glands, including pituitary, thyroid and adrenal glands, as well as reproductive organs and many more.

Cadegiani raised a concern that the slower onset of endocrine pathologies may pose difficulties in diagnosis and treatment.

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Depletion of hormonal reserves

Endocrine pathologies can take longer to become apparent because endocrine glands have “reserves,” according to Cadegiani.

“What we’re going to see in the future [for endocrine diseases] is a little bit different from the other fields, because glands have reserves and the decrease of the reserve will not be clinically seen right now, but it may be in the future,” said Cadegiani at a Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance conference in Kissimmee, Florida.

Therefore, affected individuals may show no symptoms until their reserves have been depleted.

Cadegiani said that most of his concerns for the future are speculative and based his own clinical observations. But since the pandemic and the administration of COVID-19 vaccines began, there have been increasing reports that implicate endocrine pathologies.

Hormonal axis and systemic dysfunction

Hormones regulate the entire body, so once the reserves are depleted and underlying endocrine pathologies are unmasked, there may be cases of systemic dysregulation.

Endocrine glands control the function of many organs across the body, and each endocrine organ is also connected through a feedback loop, also known as a hormonal axis.

At the top of this chain is the hypothalamus, which is a diamond structure in the brain and acts as a master switchboard. It sends messages to the pituitary glands, a small, oval structure tucked behind the nose.

The pituitary gland is colloquially known as the master gland; it regulates other endocrine organs, together with the hypothalamus forming hormonal axes.

The pituitary gland is part of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis which regulates the reproductive organs including the ovaries and the testes. In females, it is responsible for regulating the release of ovarian hormones as part of the menstrual cycle, and in males the axis regulates spermatogenesis.

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a neuroendocrine axis that mediates the adrenal glands, an organ that produces hormones that trigger the fight or flight response.

The fight or flight process is a stress response that occurs in response to harmful threats, and can reduce metabolism, suppress immunity as well as activate the sympathetic nervous system.

Another major axis is the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis. This regulates the thyroids and the hormones it secretes. Thyroid hormones are essential for biological functions of growth, regulation of the cardiovascular system, bone replacement, liver function and metabolism.

How spike proteins target the endocrine system

The spike protein is the most toxic part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Studies on people with long COVID-19 and post-vaccine symptoms often detected spike protein presence months or even a year after the exposure.

Spike protein particularly favors tissues and organs that express ACE2 and CD147 receptors. Many endocrine glands display ACE2 receptors, including the pancreas, thyroid, testes, ovaries, adrenal glands and the pituitary gland, making the endocrine system particularly vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2.

The key driver behind spike protein-induced disease is inflammation.

Upon entering cells, spike protein can activate pro-inflammatory pathways by inducing DNA damage, inhibiting DNA repair, causing stress to the cell’s mitochondria, which is critical for cell energy production and many more. All of this lead to cellular stress, injury and possible cell death.

When many cells are affected, it can cause problems in tissues and organs, affecting individual endocrine glands and the system.

Spike proteins also inhibit autophagy, the cellular “recycling system,” thereby preventing the cells from clearing the toxic protein out, leading to prolonged damage.

Spike proteins may also contribute to autoimmunity. Since it shares many similarities with common human tissues and proteins — known as “molecular mimicry” — it has the potential to cause immune cells to mount an attack against their own cells and organs, leading to endocrine damage.

Several studies have reported on endocrine pathologies following COVID-19 vaccination, though data on the exact damage is still emerging.

Pituitary glands

As the master gland of the endocrine system, the pituitary gland secretes many hormones, including ones that regulate other endocrine glands:

• Adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) targets the adrenal glands and is responsible for producing cortisol, which stimulates the stress response.
• Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) regulates the thyroid.
• Growth hormone is responsible for growth and metabolism.
• Melanocyte-stimulating hormone boosts the production of melanin when exposed to UV rays and increases appetite.
• Anti-diuretic hormone is responsible for retaining water and producing less urine.
• Luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and prolactin are important for reproduction.
• Oxytocin plays a role in childbirth, metabolism and happiness.

Studies in cell culture have shown that the spike protein is able to suppress the production of LH and FSH in pituitary cells, with unknown long-term consequences in humans.

ACTH deficiencies have been observed following mRNA vaccination in Japan, with the person affected found to have a shrunken pituitary gland.

Cadegiani said that pathologies in the pituitary are difficult to diagnose; they are often masked by other conditions, therefore there is little literature on pituitary pathology presentation after COVID-19 vaccinations.

Adrenal glands

There is published literature with data that may be used as evidence to suggest spike protein injury at the adrenal glands.

The adrenal glands, located above the kidneys, produce hormones responsible for the stress response. This includes adrenaline, cortisol and aldosterone. The release of these three hormones is critical for maintaining energy and other needs during stressful situations.

Studies on COVID-19 have shown that the adrenal glands are major sites of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA accumulation and spike protein production.

The glands are also likely to be involved in post-vaccine myocarditis events that are often seen in young males. Cadegiani reasons that this type of myocarditis may be a sign of adrenal dysfunction.

Cadegiani authored a peer-reviewed study on post-vaccine myocarditis and concluded catecholamines are the main trigger for these events. Catecholamines are a group of neurohormones and includes dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline.

While dopamine mostly acts within the nervous system, both adrenaline and noradrenaline play important roles in stress responses.

Adrenaline activates the fight or flight stress response and noradrenaline supports the response by increasing heart rate, breaking down fats and increasing blood sugar levels.

Intense and prolonged exercise triggers the fight or flight response, which is why catecholamines are usually elevated in athletes. Males in particular tend to have higher levels of catecholamine. Testosterone is also suspected to play a role in the higher incidence of myocarditis following vaccination.

Stress responses increase blood pressure, stronger heart contraction and when chronic, can increase the risk of cardiac events. 

Cadegiani linked catecholamines with myocarditis by analyzing autopsy reports of two teenage boys who died three to four days after mRNA vaccination from myocarditis events.

Their heart damage was different from normal myocarditis pathology, with clear similarities with stress-induced cardiomyopathy; Cadegiani observed clear characteristics of catecholamine-induced myocarditis.

He hypothesized that vaccines triggered a hyper-catecholaminergic state by elevating levels of adrenaline, causing hyperactivation of adrenaline.

Studies on mRNA-vaccinated athletes also found that after exercise, those who were vaccinated had higher heart rates and noradrenaline levels than those who were not vaccinated.

Dysfunctions in the adrenal glands are likely to lead to adrenal insufficiency.

Cadegiani hypothesized adrenal insufficiency — a condition that the adrenal glands become unable to produce enough hormones — to be a possible consequence of spike protein injury.

There is already a report of adrenal insufficiency following infection; in the case of long COVID-19 where there are spike protein remnants, it is likely that the damage will be prolonged, possibly leading to chronic damage.

In the case of vaccines, a report evaluating spike protein production after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination found that the adrenal glands were one of the highest spike protein-producing tissues, and the spike protein production in these glands increased with time.

Current research has also shown that complications from thrombocytopenia as a post-vaccine symptom have led to adrenal hemorrhage and adrenal insufficiency.

Thyroid

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located over the throat. It has a lot of functions, primarily regulating growth and metabolism.

It makes two hormones, thyroxine and triiodothyronine. Deficiencies in triiodothyronine results in hypothyroidism, characterized by a large thyroid; over-secretion of it can cause hyperthyroidism.

The thyroid also plays a role in regulating the immune system. COVID-19 infection is often a sign of underlying thyroid problems, and damage from infection can exacerbate thyroid problems, creating a negative cycle.

An autopsy study on 15 people deceased from COVID-19 found that 13 of them had viral RNA and proteins in their thyroid tissues. ACE2 receptors, previously thought to be not presented on the thyroid, were also detected, indicating a possible route for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Though the research shows that thyroids can be implicated in infection, thyroiditis, which is inflammation of the thyroid, has currently only been reported in relation to the COVID-19 vaccine.

A study from Turkey stated that the COVID-19 vaccine can induce thyroiditis. The study evaluated 15 patients who developed thyroiditis following vaccination.

Four of the patients also developed Grave’s disease, which is an autoimmune disease and a complication of hyperthyroidism. Hashimoto’s disease, another thyroid autoimmune condition, has also been reported following vaccinations.

It is possible that spike proteins produced from vaccinations may attack the thyroid cells by binding to ACE2 receptors. However, looking at the high reports of autoimmune diseases, Cadegiani suspects that the pathogenesis of thyroid dysfunction is likely autoimmune.

The spike protein has also demonstrated its autoimmune capacity due to high incidences of “molecular mimicry.”

Pancreas

The pancreas produces glucagon and insulin, two important hormones that regulate our blood sugar levels. Dysregulation of blood sugar levels is an indication of pancreatic dysfunction and may lead to complications such as diabetes.

Spike protein both from the vaccine and the virus has shown a potential to disturb glucose metabolism.

There have been reports of a sudden onset of type 1 diabetes, which is a form of autoimmune disease where the body attacks its own pancreatic beta cells.

A study evaluating EudraVigilance safety surveillance reports has also found reports of dysregulation of blood glucose with transient worsening of hyperglycemia reported after vaccinations.

Chronic hyperglycemia, meaning high blood sugar, is usually a sign of dysfunction in the pancreatic beta cells.

Therefore Cadegiani proposed that there could be a loss or malfunction of pancreatic beta cells as studies have shown that the spike protein is able to directly affect and damage these beta cells, likely resulting in their death.

Reproductive organs

The harms of COVID-19 on male reproductive organs are well established.

A study from Thailand showed that in 153 sexually active men, around 64.7% experienced erectile dysfunction during COVID-19 infection, with 50% persisting in these symptoms three months after recovery.

Erectile dysfunction has been established in research to be due to dysfunctions of the endothelial cells, and the spike protein impairs endothelial cells.

Studies linking COVID-19 and erectile dysfunction have largely blamed it on the virus’s interaction with ACE2 receptors displayed on the surface of endothelial cells. Endothelial cells are abundant in ACE2 receptors, making them one of the most targeted in COVID-19 infections.

A study evaluating adenovirus DNA vaccines showed that cells exposed to the vaccines also produced spike proteins that could interact and bind with ACE2 receptors, suggestive of equal endothelial damage.

Since the vaccine rolled out in 2021, the CDC data reported 193 cases of erectile dysfunction following COVID-19 vaccination.

An Israeli study on sperm donations has also noticed a reduction of 15% in sperm concentration and 22% in motile sperm count following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination.

The authors confirmed in a later response that the people tested had no underlying health conditions, and therefore the reduction could not be due to any underlying health conditions that were existent prior to the vaccination.

Though sperm count gradually made a recovery after 145 days, sperm concentration and motility did not return to pre-vaccination levels, with unknown long-term effects.

Concerns of reproductive problems have also been reported in women, most particularly after vaccinations rather than after infection.

Studies showed that men are generally at a higher risk of severe outcomes and deaths from COVID-19 infections; however, women seem to be at a higher risk of vaccine injury. 

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data showed that over 60% of adverse event reports came from women, indicating that women are more vulnerable to post-vaccine symptoms.

Dr. Paul Marik, critical care expert, also observed that women were at a greater risk of presenting with post-vaccine symptoms in the clinic.

During the pandemic, many women reported menstrual abnormalities following vaccination. A study on Middle Eastern women found almost 70% of them reported menstrual irregularities after vaccination.

A study funded by the National Institute of Health found a “temporary increase in menstrual cycle length” linked to the COVID-19 vaccination.

A study published on the website titled My Cycle Story reported over 290 women experienced decidual cast shedding after the COVID-19 vaccines rolled out, even though less than 40 such cases have been documented over the past 109 years.

This also indicated that many of the reproductive symptoms women were suffering from may be vaccine-related, rather than related to COVID-19 infections.

Cadegiani predicted greater adverse events in pregnancies for the coming future.

He cited a study that concluded “no association” between COVID-19 vaccines and fertility. The data however showed that unvaccinated women had a higher rate of pregnancy than the vaccinated, both for clinical and biochemical pregnancy.

The authors of the paper reviewed 10 studies and found that unvaccinated women have a clinical and biochemical pregnancy rate of 47 and 60% respectively, while the COVID-19-vaccinated had a rate of 45 and 51%.

Cadegiani predicts more cases of endocrinopathologies as a result of spike injuries in the future.

“Endocrine diseases progress slowly and then only clinically appears in the severe states,” said Cadegiani. “So it’s not possible to tell this [anytime] beforehand.”

Reprinted with permission from The Epoch Times.

Marina Zhang is based in New York and covers health and science for The Epoch Times.

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