Venezuelans collecting clean spring water on Caracas mountain
Yesterday (March 31), I spent over an hour with a Venezuelan journalist, Ricardo González [https://twitter.com/RicardoGZK], talking with people who had come to Waraira Repano mountainside to collect clean spring water.
In spite of the media hype that Venezuela is in a state of crisis, you can see people calmly waiting for their opportunity to fill up water jugs, kids wading in the water, people joking, also people frustrated as to be expected under such exhausting circumstances.
You can also hear a variety of opinions here. It's interesting that those who spoke in a pro-government stance seem to be politically aware of US machinations against Venezuela, which is something I've encountered among many of the poorest I've been meeting in my last few weeks here, moving around Caracas' poorest areas.
First published:
https://youtu.be/7e3RXkskHX4
narrator:
"... while we have been imprisoned in our homes they have been preparing the new fear infrastructure out there.
All this for what?..."
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya:
"...the numbers we've seen are consistent with a very, very, wide range, from a from an epidemic that will kill two to four million people on one end, and an epidemic that will kill 50-50,000 to
100,000 people on the other.
That's a that's an incredibly broad range, and the policies you do to avoid two to four million deaths are very, very, different than the policies you do to avoid 50,000, 100,000 deaths."
narrator:
"They say it's a new disease, and it's uncharted territory. Yet
when it comes to the lockdown, they seem to be a hundred percent certain and adamant that the steps they are enforcing are the only way forward until a solution is produced in 18 months, a time frame that has been echoed around from day one. Which makes me wonder..."
Dr. Dan Erickson:
"100s of years we relied on herd immunity viruses kill people end of story the flu kills people Covid kills people, but for the rest of us we develop herd immunity. And when we look at people that have locked down and people that haven't locked down, we have massive data it is not statistically significant whether you lock down or not. So why are we doing it?"
narrator:
"What about the non-Covid related deaths in the UK? In the first 2 weeks in April, there were 6,000 extra deaths recorded that are non covid related. Sick people, cancer patients, people waiting for surgeries...all not getting treatments.
Elderly are getting sick, but suffering quietly with fear of going to hospitals and contracting the virus and they are dying slowly.
Why are the mainstream media not talking you out of these cases? I thought this whole thing was to protect the elderly."
What do we say to all those scientists that have been speaking
out against the official version?"
Dr. Annie Bukacek:
"History-changing decisions are being made due to these figures, despite the fact that they are flat-out wrong, based on data that is insufficient and often inaccurate.
When it comes to Covid19, there is the additional data skewer that is, get this, there is no universal definition of Covid19 death. The Center for Disease Control updated from April 4th
still states that mortality "data" includes both confirmed and presumptive positive cases Covid19, that's from their website.
Translation: the CDC counts both true Covid19 cases and speculative guesses of Covid19 the same, they call it death by Covid19. They automatically overestimate the real death numbers by their own admission."
Dr. Erickson:
"If you studied the numbers in 2017 & 2018, we had 50-60 million with the flu. And we had we had a
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyu2ZR7a_A0
On my last couple of visits to Donetsk, I went to an incredible dog shelter caring for over 800 dogs.
I apologize for taking too long to put together & share footage I took, but better late than never. The shelter could really use support in order to buy food & things related to treating & caring for the dogs.
*Note: I have no financial or other affiliation to the shelter, just really appreciate what they are doing ❤️
Follow the shelter here:
https://t.me/pif_dn
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlzc_RqrDo
On September 11 I traveled to Mhardeh to hear from civilians and defense forces about the terrorism they have been subject to for years.
Liberate Idlib and Syria: The Martyred of Mhardeh Speak Through the Ones They’ve Left Behind
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mhardeh-a-call-from-a-martyred-christian-town-for-syrias-full-liberation/250281/
Please see this heartbreaking video with Shadi Yousef Shehda, whose wife, three young children and mother were all killed by such a terrorist missile attack on September 7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVSyWz--e5c&
Simon al Wakeel Speaks on Mhardeh's National Defense Forces and Civilians Under Terrorist Attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FcqjQ_g8Zw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRYjWDWIFk
Laith:
“Syrians in the US went to the embassy at the UN and voted. That was a direct challenged to American hegemony, since the Americans closed the Syrian embassy in DC. But there is still a Syrian embassy at the UN, and that they can't touch, the Americans. So many people showed up at the UN headquarters, waiving flags, and so on.
The other two countries that host the majority of Syrian refugees or immigrant populations, Germany and Turkey, again the blocked the Syrian votes from happening.
At the same time, countries that were responsible for the war in Syria, like the UAE, opened the embassy, allowed Syrians to vote.”
“Last week in Lebanon, tens of thousands of Syrian residents of Lebanon went to Syrian embassy in Beirut. The fact on the ground is that Syrian people are out in the millions voting in these elections.”
Related Links:
https://twitter.com/LaithMarouf
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/524893-syria-war-peace-western/
Lively times in Irbeen and Douma, Eastern Ghouta, today, where Syrians exercised their right to vote in Presidential elections. Western media mocks the elections. Syrians voting, sing, dancing, is a massive F.U. to the West's ambitions of regime change in Syria.
https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1397548547864768515
On the 2014 presidential elections.
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/syrians-flock-to-vote-in-lebanon/
Geagea thugs not only terrorized and beat up Syrian civilians on their way to vote, but also a civilian bus filled with Palestinian refugees going from Tripoli to south Lebanon to take part in a pro-Palestine protest. #القوات_الإرهابية
https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1395361097809547266
Terrorising Syrians to stop them from voting in Lebanon will only make them more determined. I hope the allies of Syria in Lebanon go to the street and guarantee safe passage for the Syrians!
https://twitter.com/KevorkAlmassian/status/1395286920985550850
How come Lebanese Army made sure after the first proPalestine protest in south Lebanon to stop any Palestinian from reaching the border with Palestine down south &"managed the situation",yet today they can't "manage" it to protect Syrian civilians from Geagea thugs inside Beirut?
https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1395355748604030976
Even U.S. envoy for Syria James Jeffrey has acknowledged America’s intentional destruction of Syria’s economy, allegedly stating recently that the sanctions, “contributed to the collapse of the value of the Syrian pound… the Syrian regime is no longer able to manage an effective economic policy… due to the economic crisis that is also affecting Lebanon. ”
In the same statement, Jeffrey claimed the sanctions will “protect” Syrians, a comment far from reality.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB53JJvZhw8
after the first strikes on Gaza during Israel's 23 day massacre of the 365 km2 Strip (within which the Palestinians of Gaza were imprisoned, without bomb shelters or safe havens) , nurses in Shifa hospital's ICU describe some of the patients on their deathbeds.
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Shifa Hospital: "brain matter out"
after the first strikes on Gaza during Israel's 23 day massacre of the 365 km2 Strip (within which the Palestinians of Gaza were imprisoned, without bomb shelters or safe havens) , nurses in Shifa hospital's ICU describe some of the patients on their deathbeds.
Dr Khaled from Shifa hospital ICU told me today around 10 that the majority of cases in the ICU are critical, with an approx 80% who will not survive. The normally 12-bed ICU was caring for twice as many as normally capable, extra beds and extra rooms made to care for ICU patients. At that time, the 24 beds in the ICU were the 4th shift of critically injured, the former 3 having died from their injuries.
There is a critical need for more ICU beds, as well as mechanical ventilators
the majority of injuries were “multi-explosive injuries” with a concentration of head injuries (“head trauma”) resulting from the explosions, from shrapnel in the brain. Other injuries included abdominal injuries resulting in internal bleeding, from shrapnel in the abdomen. The majority of head injuries were not expected to survive, and those who do are expected to have brain damage, some full paralysis (quadroplegea). Because of the shortage of spaces and equipment, the ICU has had to turn patients away, others waiting in the reception until a patient dies and his space can be used.
among the critically wounded were a number of children and minors:
a six year old down’s syndrom with brain trauma
an 11 year old with brain trauma, not likely to survive
a 13 year old with a head injury (“brain matter out”)
a 21 year old, leg amputated, various shrapnel injuries over body and face, loss of hearing in one ear
a 21 year old, braindead, “hopeless” case
a man in his fifties, neither police nor resistance
a man in his forties, on the beach when struck, head trauma (“brain matter out”)
a man in his fifties, head trauma
a 53 year old, shrapnel in the brain, no surgery possible
many other men in their 20s and 30s, head injuries (shrapnel in brain), and abdominal injuries, some policemen.
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/shifa-icu-a-glimpse-of-hospital-critical-injuries/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfI4mm8kUe8
Mike Robinson speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlet and Cynthia McKinney about their experiences of living in Gaza.
Some of my own related links:
https://www.youtube.com/@gazanews2009/videos
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/on-board-the-dignity-en-route-to-besieged-gaza/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/the-hardest-thing-parents-speak-of-their-children-killed-by-israeli-bombings/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/
Reflecting on the terrorism Syrians faced for years, until the liberation of eastern Ghouta earlier this year, and how that liberation enabled Syrians to walk freely and celebrate without fear of being killed or maimed by terrorists' mortars.
With Hadi Nasrallah
RELATED links:
*On the 2016 mortar attack on the Qamar al-Sham restaurant
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1252398584770133&id=100000000104830
US-Backed Terrorism in Syria: A First-Hand Account of the Use of Mortars Against Civilians
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-backed-terrorism-in-syria-a-first-hand-account-of-the-use-of-mortars-against-civilians/5401390?fbclid=IwAR0iTDefE2-HnnWpTTA3o1-uew_LACzgfEEObw734uvE7zaLEEil_mECoz0
University Hospital, Damascus: Meeting Victims of Western-backed Mortar and Rocket Terrorism
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/university-hospital-damascus-meeting-victims-of-western-backed-mortar-and-rocket-terrorism/?fbclid=IwAR0VJVKdowp_h5mIFYxbDtJjyt6r-F70Aspspm8x_VM8vptsUN1f_iEXWI0
"Three Year Old Girl Critically Injured by Terrorist Mortar, Syria, Feb 2015"
https://youtu.be/1y0iIclOoHw?fbclid=IwAR3d3poxvIzvXI5XECp4Xo5hogHDo7Hv-BspbvkZ3tAKtlar_Cq5k7ONxi4
UN Feigns Outrage Over Eastern Ghouta While Terrorist Rockets Rain on Damascus
https://www.mintpressnews.com/un-feigns-outrage-over-ghouta-while-terrorist-rockets-rain-down-on-damascus/238148/?fbclid=IwAR3XCNGmHv9vkPuiZKSgdhXp3qnu29O5suTeqZcnAPJh_H_XQZ7fRGEorVs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3dDmv1VbM8
Michael Swifte is an independent activist and advocate residing in Brisbane, Australia. He is a part of the critical thinking collective Wrong Kind of Green.
From a brief bio on him:
"His work focuses on the non-profit industrial complex with a special interest in the development of the Galilee Basin coal complex, networked hegemony, the collateralization of nature for the 'new economy', and in highlighting the political will for fossil fuel driven industrial decarbonization."
Follow his work:
https://twitter.com/empathiser
https://wesuspectsilence.wordpress.com/
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org
https://www.facebook.com/michaelswizswifte
RELATED LINKS:
Monica Smit Refuses to be Silenced: Chooses Jail over Unfair Bail
https://xyz.net.au/2021/09/monica-smit-refuses-to-be-silenced-chooses-jail-over-unfair-bail
*her arrest
https://twitter.com/_Mrtdogg/status/1432585114333110274
https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/monicas-arrest/
CHO served
https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/sutton-served
Oz surveillance legislation
https://insiderpaper.com/australian-government-new-surveillance-laws-modify-twitter-facebook-posts/
Increase of suicidal ideations
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/519837-covid19-lockdowns-mask-wearing-isolation/
Phone call with a lawyer at Caxton Legal Centre
https://sciencepublichealthpolicyqld2021.blogspot.com/2021/01/phone-call-with-lawyer-at-caxton-legal.html
Denis Rancourt interview
https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/interview-with-canadian-physicist-and:1
Mark Crispin Miller censorship
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1633-mark-crispin-miller-exposes-propaganda-in-the-academy/
https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/wp-content/uploads/masks-dont-work-denis-rancourt-april-2020.pdf
Karen Goori at Yuggera Original Sovereign opening People's Revolution Rally Meeanjin Brisbane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkyLwkGWg8w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CR18fSy3vQ