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		<title>Health Authorities Should Avoid New Malaria Vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>While the rise in malaria cases is of great concern (The Mercury, November 8), what may be more alarming is the malaria vaccine being promoted by the Gates Foundation. On October 9 the Gates Foundation announced that it had funded the development by BioNTech of an mRNA-based (Messenger RiboNucleic Acid) malaria vaccine. This development has [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">While the rise in malaria cases is of great concern (<em>The Mercury, </em>November 8), what may be more alarming is the malaria vaccine being promoted by the Gates Foundation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On October 9 the Gates Foundation announced that it had funded the development by BioNTech of an mRNA-based (Messenger RiboNucleic Acid) malaria vaccine. This development has been hailed by the WHO as a promising advance in combating malaria, which claimed the lives of 600,000 children last year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whether this vaccine is successful in reducing malaria cases remains to be seen. But of its side-effects, there is no doubt. Mounting information about the life-threatening effects of mRNA should alert health authorities against promoting it. Here’s why:</p>
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<li>Canada’s Health Authority has confirmed DNA contamination in mRNA vaccines, which modify the human body through excessive generation of protein (Robert Kennedy’s <em>The Defender, </em>October 20).</li>
<li>As early as April 2021, Dr. Fauci, the CDC Director Rachelle Walensky, and the US National Institute of Health were aware that mRNA in vaccines promoted myocarditis (<em>The Defender, </em>October 24).</li>
<li>The <em>International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research </em>has revealed that Pfizer concealed the cardiac-related deaths that resulted from its mRNA trial tests in order to rush FDA approval of its vaccine (<em>The Defender, </em>October 27).</li>
<li>A study of 19,000 recipients of the mRNA vaccine in Italy has confirmed that one in three is afflicted by neurological complications, which include cognitive fog. insomnia and headaches (<em>World Net Daily, </em>October 31).</li>
<li>Drs Rancourt and Hickey of Ottawa University, in a 180-page review of 17 countries where mRNA vaxxing was high, found an unprecedented rise in all-cause mortality (<em>World Net Daily, </em>October 13).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">What all Covid mRNA studies confirm is the lowering of immunity capacity which means patchy to poor health. As a result, the World Council of Health and many acclaimed scientists and medical specialists have urged the banning of mRNA vaccines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The fact that the WHO and the Gates Foundation, along with Big Pharma, persist in promoting mRNA vaccines should indicate an agenda that is not humanly benevolent.</p>
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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s Asset Migration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 05:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>There’s a dual significance in Pepsico&#8217;s South African vice president, Mark Bunn’s remark that Future Life is helping to transform and improve health. (The Mercury, October 6). While undoubtedly Pepsico’s investment in Future Life’s facility at Dube Trade Port is a welcome development, it marks another increase in the extent to which ownership of South [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">There’s a dual significance in Pepsico&#8217;s South African vice president, Mark Bunn’s remark that Future Life is helping to transform and improve health. (<em>The Mercury, </em>October 6).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">While undoubtedly Pepsico’s investment in Future Life’s facility at Dube Trade Port is a welcome development, it marks another increase in the extent to which ownership of South African products is passed to international corporations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pepsico is the largest food and beverage corporation in North America by net revenue. In March 2020, it acquired ownership of Pioneer Foods for $1,7 billion. That means a string of household South African products is now owned by Pepsico: Bokomo, Sasko, Ceres, Liquifruit, White Star, Simba, and Safari.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Other examples of asset migration are; Clover Dairies – 60% owned since 2019 by an Israeli company; Illovo Sugar – bought by Associated British Foods in 2016; Game stores absorbed into Massmart, a subsidiary of the US giant Walmart, in 2011; Standard Bank – 20% owned by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; Distell – producer of wines, Amarula, Richelieu, Three Ships, Hunters – owned by Heineken since 2022. South Africa is second on China’s list of investments in mining in Africa.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Increasing foreign ownership of a country’s resources, assets and industries erodes the extent to which it can claim to be sovereign and independent. That is one of the objectives of globalism whereby policies and narratives can be dictated.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That process is already at an advanced stage regarding health and health hazards whereby the WHO seeks to dictate health policies worldwide and control all human mobility, interaction and travel as a result.</p>
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		<title>Good Riddance To 28 Million COVID Vax Doses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The concern expressed by IFP MP Duduzile Hlengwa at the fact that 28 million doses of Covid-19 so-called vaccines will go unused (The Mercury, June 20) provides shameful evidence of how ill-informed politicians are about the true facts on this issue. In the first place, as the WHO announced on May 4, Covid-19 is no [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The concern expressed by IFP MP Duduzile Hlengwa at the fact that 28 million doses of Covid-19 so-called vaccines will go unused (<em>The Mercury, </em>June 20) provides shameful evidence of how ill-informed politicians are about the true facts on this issue.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the first place, as the WHO announced on May 4, Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency. So those 28 million doses have no purpose. But now that hundreds of millions of people worldwide were recipients of the Covid so-called vaccines, the truth about the jab is dripping out.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">US Health Dept records obtained in a lawsuit under Freedom of Information legislation show that FDA officials knew of the adverse effects of the so-called vaccines two years ago but nonetheless promoted vaxxing. Pfizer was also aware of their ineffectiveness but remained mute about that while the Company made $100 billion from vax doses by  2022.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Before she suddenly resigned as CDC Director last month, Dr Rachelle Walensky conceded that the vax did not stop the spread of Covid and that boosters had only negative consequences. Pfizer’s own data showed that its vax was never safe for pregnant women when its clinical tests showed high rates of miscarriage. RF Kennedy’s <em>The Defender </em>of March 27 reported that the rate of stillbirths in the US is unprecedented.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Death rates since mass vaxxing has reached the highest level in 80 years in Australia. In New Zealand, death rates are the highest in a century. Death rates since vaxxing are up 9% in the UK and 8% in Canada and Germany. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has noted record health impairment occurring.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Headed by Dr Melissa McCann, 500 Australians have mounted the world’s first Covid vax injury class action against their government for gross negligence in coercing vaxxing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That is what should be happening in South Africa, particularly in the Western Cape whose provincial premier Alan Winde not only ardently promoted vaxxing but opposed the dissenting vax views of Dr Aseem Malhotra.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> What is emerging is that what was promoted as an antidote to Covid-19 was a complete lie. Worse still, what is now apparent is that the mRNA in the vax is actually a bio-weapon intended to depopulate the planet through illness, early deaths and infertility. 28 million Covid vax doses going unused is actually good riddance.</p>
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		<title>Global Health Under Totalitarian Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Two news reports in The Mercury of April 19 should alarm all who value freedom and fear the advance of Orwellian totalitarianism. On May 12 a global summit, on what is falsely called the pandemic, is to be held in Washington attended by so-called world leaders and their advisors who manipulate science for political reasons. [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Two news reports in <em>The Mercury </em>of April 19 should alarm all who value freedom and fear the advance of Orwellian totalitarianism.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On May 12 a global summit, on what is falsely called the pandemic, is to be held in Washington attended by so-called world leaders and their advisors who manipulate science for political reasons.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Heading the agenda is the aim to have 70% of the population of every country vaccinated as the necessary platform to “prepare for future health threats.” Incredibly, while evidence abounds that the so-called vaccines are spreading Covid and causing increasing adverse effects and deaths, the media statement of the summit organisers claims that vaxxing will “save lives and build better health security.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The blatant falsehood of that statement is attested to by the latest statistics from VAERS (vaccine adverse effects reporting system) for the period 14 December 2020 to 8 April 2022: 1,226, 314 reports, 219,865 serious effects, 26,976 deaths. VAERS is a passive reporting system which at best reflects only 10% of actual adverse effects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Compounding this shocking reality is the admission by the CDC and the UK Health ministry that after 16 months of observation, vaxxing is ineffective in preventing Covid, facilitates its transmission and diminishes natural immunity capacity thereby promoting poor health.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From the above, the only conclusion to be drawn from the globalist push for vaxxing is that it constitutes a crime against humanity. It also fits in precisely with World Economic Forum chairman Klaus Schwab’s long term objective, shared by Bill Gates, of depopulating the planet.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What cannot be overstated is that those attending the May 12 global summit do not represent the mass of humanity. That is apparent from the unprecedented mass protests that have occurred in Europe and the US against Covid regulations and vax mandates. Instead, the summit represents an oligarchy whose politics is totalitarian.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This dark shadow over the future of freedom extends to South Africa where the local chapter of the oligarchy is bent on imposing regulations that will deny citizens their section 12 (2) constitutional rights.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Worse still is the report that SALGA, representing 257 municipalities, the vast majority of which are bankrupt, is demanding that the powers to enforce the draconian regulations are devolved to its members. The prospect of radical transformation commissars like Zandile Gumede determining our rights is chilling.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">By failing to recognise and oppose the controls the global oligarchy intends to impose, freedom is threatened. US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (1916-1939), a champion of private, individual liberty, recognised that threat which is even more serious today: <em>“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we cannot have both.”</em></p>
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		<title>Where The Vax Debate Should Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The reason The Mercury editorial of March 28 claims “the vaccine debate is not over yet” is because open debate on the subject is being suppressed by the mainstream media. If the stark realities of the subject were laid bare, a very different narrative would emerge. In recent weeks the very institutions tasked with monitoring [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The reason <em>The Mercury </em>editorial of March 28 claims “the vaccine debate is not over yet” is because open debate on the subject is being suppressed by the mainstream media. If the stark realities of the subject were laid bare, a very different narrative would emerge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In recent weeks the very institutions tasked with monitoring Covid deaths and the effects of the vaccines have made highly significant admissions. The UK <em>Mail on Sunday </em>noted that only 6% of deaths in the US in the period up to February 22 were from Covid. In Italy, the Covid death rate has been revised down to 2,9%. For its part, the CDC has conceded that “coding errors” resulted in deaths ascribed to Covid being greatly exaggerated. Scientists at Oxford University concur that “fundamental flaws” occurred in the recording of deaths ascribed to Covid with up to fourteen different terms used on death certificates.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, the first reality to concede is that there was no pandemic, a factor attested to by the survival rate of 99%.  The figure given of almost 100,000 Covid deaths in South Africa, would most likely be a lot lower if properly analysed as a revision of death data in the UK and US has demonstrated.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The second and more crucial reality to recognise is the misinformation and adverse effects regarding the so-called vaccines.  The promotion of boosters proves that being vaxxed does not produce immunity. It is also a reality that the vaxxed are finding themselves re-infected with Covid.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thus, it is a blatant falsehood promoted by the South African Dept of Health and its WHO advisor, Professor Abdool Karim, that “herd immunity” will be achieved only when more people have been vaxxed. On the contrary, as millions of vaxxed in the US and Europe are finding out, the only herd status they have achieved is to have weakened immune systems.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On page 23 of its report dated February 22, the UK Dept of Health noted anti-body levels are significantly lower amongst the vaxxed compared to the unvaxxed. Research confirmed what the European Medicines Agency found last year that the mRNA vax permanently depleted the body’s ability to restore anti-body capacity. The result is that the vaxxed are more prone to illness.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ominously, the CDC has noted an 84% increase in the death rate amongst Millenials since vaxxing commenced. The 1,000% increase in serious health issues amongst the US military since compulsory vaxxing should be front-page news. But it isn’t. US military Dr Theresa Long has testified that she was ordered to suppress vax adverse effects data. The same news suppression concerns health issues and deaths amongst vaxxed sportsmen.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The only vaccine debate that should be taking place is: Why is a drug being promoted that was never properly tested, is not certified to produce Covid immunity and is proving more life-threatening than Covid?</p>
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		<title>The NHI For SA Is What The Iceberg Was For The Titanic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Given the poor state of the economy, the ANC&#8217;s determination to foist National Health Insurance on the country (Mercury, June 26) will be for the economy what the iceberg was for the Titanic. Even if the public health system was working, which it is not, and the economy was in growth mode, which it is not, the idea [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Given the poor state of the economy, the ANC&#8217;s determination to foist National Health Insurance on the country (Mercury, June 26) will be for the economy what the iceberg was for the Titanic.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Even if the public health system was working, which it is not, and the economy was in growth mode, which it is not, the idea of a single publicly controlled fund to purchase services for all South Africans without discrimination in both public and private health is a pipedream</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Besides the obvious fact that there are simply not enough doctors and nurses to implement such a scheme, funding of what RW Johnson has called a &#8220;monster&#8221; is beyond the affordability of the revenue system. The Actuarial Society of South Africa has calculated that the annual cost of NHI would be around R300 billion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Also militating against NHI is the inability of government departments to manage their finances. Already the vast majority of municipalities run by the ANC are bankrupt. Setting up a R300-billion a year pot for NHI would just be another looting opportunity.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The state of the National Health Service in the UK should be a warning of the burden and pitfalls that such a system has become in a developed country. Not only is the NHS the largest public sector employer in the UK with 1,4 million employees but it is chronically cash-strapped and limps along sustained by constant infusions of billions of pounds of taxpayers&#8217; money.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The idea of NHI is a  ploy to win votes by a party which has already proved incapable of governing but which excels at looting.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>Sent to The Mercury and published, 28 June 2017.</strong></em></p>
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