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https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/09/22/interview-william-kay-on-the-climate-power-grab-green-agenda/
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio airing on Sept 20, 2022, we talk with Canadian author and researcher William Kay, the current energy crisis, and how elite cartels are using the so-called ‘green’ agenda in order to consolidate wealth and power globally. We also discuss some of the dubious ideological beliefs used to justify their fascist power-grab. All this and more. Listen:
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https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/09/22/trump-derides-biden-over-ukraine-warns-of-world-war-iii/
The conflict in Ukraine could spiral into World War III, former US President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would use all means necessary to defend itself in the face of a threat to its territorial integrity.
Writing on his social media platform, Truth Social, the ex-president said the Ukraine conflict, which began after Russia launched its military offensive in late February, “should have never happened.”
Trump claimed that if he had still been in the White House, hostilities would have never broken out between Moscow and Kiev.
“As I have made clear for quite some time, this could end up being World War III,” he added.
On Wednesday, Putin announced a partial military mobilization of around 300,000 reservists to be called up for active service. The Russian leader also warned that Moscow “would use all the means to protect our people,” including nuclear weapons if necessary.
“This is not a bluff,” Putin insisted, saying Russia would use “all available means” to protect its independence and security.
This is not the first time Trump has sounded the alarm over the repercussions from the Ukraine crisis. In June, he criticized his successor, President Joe Biden, for the way his administration has handled the crisis, slamming the incumbent for sending tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Kiev, which, he said, only adds fuel to the conflict.
“And we’re in serious danger with what’s going on in Ukraine and with Russia. You could end up with a world war the way they’re handling it. It’s crazy what they’re doing,” he said at the time.
SOURCE: RT International
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https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/09/22/report-puberty-blockers-pushed-on-children-proven-to-have-devastating-irreversible-effects/
It’s one of the most disturbing trends in North America and Europe today: radical and deranged school facilitators and staff pushing innocent children into getting dangerous, life-altering medical procedures.
Earlier this year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton acted on behalf of concerned residents and concluded that performing certain “sex-change” procedures on children, and prescribing puberty-blockers to them, would now be considered “child abuse” under Texas law.
AG Paxton concluded that certain procedures done on minors such as castration, fabrication of a “penis” using tissue from other body parts, fabrication of a “vagina” involving the removal of male sex organs, prescription of puberty-suppressors and infertility-inducers – should be considered “abuse” under section 261.001 of the Texas Family Code.
“There is no doubt that these procedures are ‘abuse’ under Texas law, and thus must be halted,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) has a responsibility to act accordingly. I’ll do everything I can to protect against those who take advantage of and harm young Texans.”
Despite all this, radical left-wing civil liberties lawyers have managed to convince a judge to halt any state investigations into this systemic practice of child abuse in the state.
However, a new and comprehensive report has surfaced this week which has already dealt a major blow to this industrial-scale abuse…
Joseph MacKinnon from The Blaze writes…
Although Democrat Circuit Judge Diana Motz intimated in August that those allegedly afflicted with gender dysphoria are disabled, a recent scientific study revealed that real and irreversible disabilities are in fact caused by those puberty-blocking hormone injections introduced to minors under the guise of remedies.
A study published on September 19 in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy explained that puberty blockers, also known as luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists or GnRHa drugs, are not just creating sexless adults, although GnRHa is a drug “licensed to chemically castrate men.” They are: depleting victims’ bone density; hampering their cognitive development; and producing a myriad of deleterious emotional effects.
The Dutch protocol
Dr. Michael Biggs, a professor of sociology at the University of Oxford, published his findings in an article entitled, “The Dutch Protocol for Juvenile Transsexuals: Origins and Evidence.” In the article, Biggs critically reviewed the fallout and ramifications of the internationally embraced Dutch protocol.
The Dutch protocol was a hormone intervention practice developed by clinicians at Utrecht and Amsterdam in the mid-1990s.
In the early days, cross-sex hormones were not introduced until a victim was between the ages of 16 and 18, and genital mutilation was not performed until the victim was 18. However, Peggy Cohen-Kettenis advocated for patients to begin undergoing so-called treatment prior to adulthood.
According to Biggs, boys were given anti-androgen and cyproterone acetate, which prevented erections and caused breasts to grow. Girls, conversely, were given progestin to stop menstruation and then testosterone, before being subjected to mastectomies, hysterectomies, and oophorectomies.
With the endocrinologist Henriette Delemarre-van de Waal and psychiatrist Louis Gooren, Cohen-Kettenis continued to develop and then codify her protocol, which became the standard international practice in the treatment of adolescents misdiagnosed with gender dysphoria.
A bad bill of goods
For years it was argued, including in the Journal of Homosexuality, that “withholding physical medical interventions” in the cases of adolescents exhibiting signs of so-called gender dysphoria were “more harmful to wellbeing in both adolescence and adulthood when compared to cases where physical medical interventions were provided.”
According to Biggs, clinicians and activists came to regard natal puberty as “a kind of disease,” concluding that “hormones of either sex can be treated as vectors of disease.”
Furthermore, proponents of the protocol suggested that GnRHa was “fully reversible; in other words, no lasting effects are to be expected.” This disproven claim was advanced, said Biggs, to “avoid the question of whether a child aged 12 (or below) could give consent to this endocrinological experiment.”
Among the irreversible side effects of the puberty blockers was a halting of critical bodily growth, including that of genitals. Upon the introduction of GnRHa to men, the penis would cease to grow, and growth would not resume upon terminating treatment.
Additionally, Biggs pointed out that advocates for transsexual alterations and puberty blockers misled the public about the likelihood that victims might just get over their adolescent confusion. He suggested that a number of children sterilized and transmogrified would otherwise have turned out to be sexually functional gays or lesbians.
“Clinicians need to explain how they are sure that some of the adolescents being prescribed GnRHa would not have grown into gay or lesbian adults, with their sexuality and fertility intact.”
Cohen-Kettenis and her cadre of scientists suggested that their victims saw a decrease in depressive symptoms and their behavioral problems resolved “while general functioning improved” post-treatment. However, Biggs suggested the evidence provided was dubious and had also excluded results of eight patients, one of whom died of necrotizing fasciitis during vaginoplasty.
Biggs remarked a “fatality rate exceeding 1% would surely halt any other experimental treatment on healthy teenagers.”
The irreplicability of the Dutch team’s results also cast into question the legitimacy of their claims.
Propaganda
In his examination of the international adoption of the Dutch protocol, Biggs noted that the once niche practice had been grossly overpopularized as the result of positive media coverage. “Positive media coverage is known to increase referrals to gender clinics.”
For instance, Oprah Winfrey’s network broadcast the documentary “I Am Jazz: A Family in Transition” in 2011, detailing how a young boy, Jared Jennings, was placed under puberty suppression at the age of 11, not long after his mother said that “you have to kinda nip puberty in the bud.”
After the show aired, Biggs noted a significant multiplication of clinics for “gender-nonconforming children and adolescence,” 32 of which soon advised puberty blockers.
Jennings, who later complained to Oprah that boys didn’t like him, now “has no libido and cannot orgasm.”
The surgeon who mutilated Jennings, Marci Bowers, said “every single child … who was truly blocked at Tanner stage 2, has never experienced orgasm. I mean, it’s really about zero.”
Similar shows normalizing and promoting puberty blockers played to millions of viewers elsewhere, including “The Wrong Body,” which was broadcast in England.
‘Inherently dangerous’
This paper was released just weeks after the Nobel prize-winning sociologist Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, told Germany’s leading feminist magazine that “taking hormones is inherently dangerous.”
Nüsslein-Volhard stated that hormones “add something to the body that is not intended there. … The body cannot handle it in the long run.”
Those “who want to change their gender … can’t do it. You remain XY or XX. … People retain their gender for life.” No amount of medical alteration can change static biological realities.
She indicated further that expressions of femininity in men or masculinity in women are not indicative of blurred gender lines but rather of varying hormonal levels and cultural differences. Gender dysphoria, in other words, maybe better addressed with time and understanding than with irreversible drugs and surgery.
The American College of Pediatricians reportedly indicated that GnRHa agonists “arrest bone growth, decrease bone accretion, prevent the sex-steroid dependent organization and maturation of the adolescent brain, and inhibit fertility by preventing the development of gonadal tissue and mature gametes for the duration of treatment.”
According to the FDA, 6,379 people died between 2013 and June 2019 after taking the hormone blocker Lupron. There were also 41,213 adverse events and 25,645 “serious” reactions reported. Lupron is one of the drugs given to children diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
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https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/09/22/vernon-coleman-how-doctors-and-nurses-betrayed-patients-and-themselves/
Dr. Vernon Coleman
21st Century Wire
NOTE: This article was first published over two years ago – on 12.7.20. Sadly, it remains perfectly valid today.
A growing number of doctors and nurses appear to be waking up and questioning the absence of any science behind the coronavirus hoax.
That’s very nice, and I congratulate them.
But what the devil took them so long?
Why did they wait so long to speak out?
Their silence betrayed their patients, their profession and themselves.
Only a complete moron could have thought that this manufactured ‘crisis’ necessitated the closure of hospitals and GP surgeries.
How could doctors stand by seeing cancer patients deprived of essential treatment? The NHS should have been stoned not clapped.
There was never any greater risk than there is with the flu every year.
Indeed, the figures show that the ordinary flu bug has always posed a much bigger risk than the coronavirus.
So far this year the coronavirus has affected 10 million people worldwide.
The flu can affect 1 billion people in the same period.
And the mortality rates for the two are almost identical.
We don’t close down hospitals and clinics whenever the flu appears.
So, obviously, this was a politically motivated closure of hospitals, shops, businesses and so on. And doctors should have seen that.
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And just as the closure of hospitals will result in far more deaths than covid 19 so the wearing of masks will result in far more deaths than could possibly be saved. Wearing a mask reduces blood oxygen levels. I have seen car drivers with masks on. I’ve even seen bus drivers wearing masks. These things reduce blood oxygen. There will, before long, be a disaster with a bus crashing because the driver was wearing a mask and became hypoxic.
Why else do you think governments everywhere admit that people with respiratory or heart problems don’t have to wear a mask?
And the stupid rules about social distancing were never justified. There was never any science to support them.
Anyone who believes in the twin heresies of social distancing and masks is, by definition, either certifiably insane, a cretin or on the dark side of the human race. Most are left wing, pro EU fascists and believers in the climate change nonsense.
Doctors and nurses who are now waking up to the fact that they’ve been tricked are claiming that they were told that if they spoke out they would be punished.
DANCING NURSES: In 2020, exhibitionist medical staff in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada took to social media and proceeded to make a mockery of a locked-down populace who were ordered to stay at home to in order to ‘save the healthcare system from being overloaded.’
Well, it’s true that the authorities are punishing doctors who dare to question the official line. I know of a doctor in the UK who was struck off the medical register for questioning the coronavirus story. And in the USA Dr Scott Jensen, a doctor who is also a state senator, is being investigated for making statements about the similarity of the coronavirus to the flu and about the way death certificates were being signed.
And it is also true that simple and effective remedies have been banned or demonised simply so that we could all be prepared for the vaccine.
But if most of the doctors in a big hospital spoke out no bureaucrat would dare to strike them all off the register. If 500 doctors stood up for the truth it would be impossible to take away all their licences.
`I work in a hospital,’ wrote one brave NHS employee. ‘So far none of the nurses, doctors or domestics has been off sick. And patients with the coronavirus are transported all around the hospital, to X-ray, to CT scan and to the ward and yet mysteriously no one gets infected.’
What sort of spineless people are working in health care these days? That’s the sort of excuse popular with lesser war criminals.
Still, looking on the slightly bright side, some of them are waking up and now realise that the coronavirus hoax was exactly that – a piece of political trickery, conceived and executed by people with hidden agendas. The damage done by the hospital closures will be massive. And the mental issues caused by the fear will be long-lasting – even permanent. Millions are suffering from severe depression as a result of the lies that have been told. Suicide rates are going to rocket.
Any doctors who are still social distancing and wearing masks outside the operating theatre should be ashamed of themselves. They, like much of the rest of the population, have been made fools of and if they had any professional pride left they would be red-faced, embarrassed by their own gullibility and ashamed of how easily they’ve been made part of a wicked conspiracy and made to look like fools.
Now is the time for the medical and nursing professions to stand up and to demand some answers and explanations from the leaders of their professions and from the administrators who gave the orders which have led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
They should also insist that hospitals are now opened fully, and that patients are told that there is nothing to fear.
For although a growing number of doctors now realise that the coronavirus scare is hoax there are still hospitals and administrators who are behaving as though we were in the middle of an outbreak of the bubonic plague.
The latest piece of lunacy in the NHS is for the people in charge to suggest that patients who want treatment at an Accident and Emergency department should telephone and make an appointment.
NHS England’s national medical director has reportedly told the House of Commons health and social care committee that the health service wanted patients to telephone first and be given a timed slot to attend the A&E department.
I’ve heard everything now.
Patients who are desperate for help, bleeding, in pain, with bones sticking out at funny angles will be expected to telephone and make an appointment to be seen in the accident and emergency department. Triage will, it seems, now be done by teenagers on the telephone. What qualifications will they have? GCSE in woodwork, perhaps?
Distraught relatives will have to telephone and fix an appointment before going to the hospital. Is the plan simply to kill more patients? Did the hospital closures not kill enough?
I will tell you what is going to happen.
Everyone is going to ring for an ambulance. And who can blame them?
As for hospitals, well even the Royal College of Physicians admits that many NHS services will not get back to full capacity for more than a year.
Millions of patients will wait too long. Patients in pain will have to wait for more than a year for treatment. Waiting times will be obscenely long. Tens of thousands will not be seen until it is too late. Tens of thousands of people who could have lived will die.
Around the world the death toll from the hoax will be measured in millions.
Comparatively few will have died of the coronavirus.
The vast majority will have died because they were shut out, abandoned or too frightened to seek help.
And the medical and nursing professions have to take responsibility for all that pain, that sorrow and those deaths.
Doctors should not have accepted the unscientific gibberish behind the coronavirus hoax. Before allowing hospitals to be shut down they should have asked questions. It was never difficult to see that mistakes were being made.
Doctors and nurses betrayed their patients and their professions but they also betrayed themselves.
Too many were happy to accept the weekly applause and the praise when they knew that they deserved neither.
It is time now for the healing professions to make amends.
They should make it clear to the administrators and the politicians that they are no longer prepared to accept the coronavirus nonsense.
They should demand their government’s medical advisors be sacked. They should demand that all members of the elite, medical establishment be sacked too.
They should demand that social distancing be abandoned and that masks should be burned.
They should tell the public that there is nothing to fear.
And they should be prepared to work long hours to clear the backlog of patients as quickly as possible.
There really is no choice.
If doctors and nurses do not stand up then they will be truly unworthy.
This article was originally a script for a YouTube video in July 2020. The video was taken down almost as quickly as it was put up.
Vernon Coleman’s book Coleman’s Laws: Twelve Essential Medical Secrets Which Could Save Your Life is available as an eBook and a paperback on Amazon. His book Superbody: How to Boost Your Immune System is also available as a paperback and an eBook.
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https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/09/21/rumble-video-goes-public-on-nasdaq/
Wealth Daily writes:
Rumble’s claim to fame is that it doesn’t censor content like competitors YouTube and Twitter do.
Content creators who’ve been delisted and demonetized on YouTube are flocking to Rumble in droves. And the numbers are good.
In June 2022, Rumble had 35 million monthly active users. Just three months later, Rumble boasted an 80% increase in active users, coming in at 63 million in the U.S. and Canada. That’s compared with Twitter’s 68 million monthly active users.
That explosive growth led the company to raise $400 million from prominent venture capitalists, including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance.
In an interview with Fox Business, Rumble founder and CEO Chris Pavlovski said, “It’s a turning point in terms of what’s happening on the internet. Things are starting to transcend politics.”
He posted this on the company’s blog yesterday as the stock price soared:
We are for people with something to say and something to share, who believe in authentic expression, and want to control the value of their own creations. We create technologies that are immune to cancel culture. Because everyone benefits when we have access to more ideas, diverse opinions, and dialogue. Join us. We are on a mission to protect a free and open internet.
Now that Rumble’s a publicly traded company, the mainstream media are losing their minds.
According to The Verge, it’s a thorn in the side of Big Tech that isn’t going away, as the company sued Google just last year, alleging the media giant favored its own YouTube platform in search results.
The lawsuit states: “Rumble’s success… has been far less than it could and should have been as a direct result of Google’s unlawful, anti-competitive, exclusionary, and monopolistic behavior.”
Rumble is requesting access to use Google’s search algorithms. And now that a California judge ruled that the case can move forward, everyone is wondering…
Is this the end of YouTube and censorship?
Is online freedom of speech finally going to be a reality?
FOX Business says…
Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski is enthusiastic about his company’s future as its fast-paced expansion continues.
The video and cloud service platform is set to go public on the stock market Monday after a successful SPAC vote and will begin trading under the “RUM” ticker on Monday.
“I think we were one of the most successful SPACs for 2022,” Pavlovski told FOX Business anchor Maria Bartiromo, Monday, in an exclusive interview on “Mornings with Maria.”
“We raised approximately $400 million and one of the main things that we’re going to be doing with the proceeds is going and really acquiring a lot of content into the platform,” he added.
Pavlovski said many creators are reaching out to him to have their content added to the fast-growing platform amid its ongoing expansion. Watch:
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https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/09/21/interview-dr-william-happer-on-climate-hysteria-and-the-green-deception/
In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio airing on Sept 13, 2022, we talk with Dr. William Happer, a Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and former Climate policy advisor to the Trump administration, about the mass-hysteria enveloping the climate change movement, and where the latest raft of ‘green’ policies are taking society and the economy, both in the US and in Europe. All this and more. Listen:
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https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/09/21/report-carjackings-rise-in-democrat-run-cities-across-america/
As the American economy continues to sink, and inflation continues to spiral upwards – thanks to perennially failing government policies – crime numbers are also rising steeply across the country.
As it goes, the FBI does not deem certain crimes important enough to gather any national data on. One of those crimes not tracked by the federal law enforcement is vehicular hijackings, otherwise known as carjacking. However, many individual cities do keep this data, and the results are breathtaking.
Statistics show that robberies and crimes exploded during the so-called ‘pandemic’, and even after the pseudo ‘public health’ emergency abates, the crime numbers show no signs of letting up. This is in part a result of the irrational government policy which mandated that the population wear face masks during the COVID-19 panic, allowing criminals to conceal their identity and act with near impunity.
Many of the car thieves are quite young, some as low as 12 or 13 years-old. In 2021, in the city of Minneapolis there were 405 carjackings, which is more than triple the number from 2019, with many of the juveniles arrested aged between 11 and 17.
Other cities which saw massive increases include: Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Kansas City, Mo. and Louisville, Ky.
Incredibly, last year in Chicago under controversial Democrat mayor Lori Lightfoot, there were no less than 1,400 carjackings, some of them ending in a violent death for the victim.
As 2022 comes to a close, crime numbers continue to go through the roof…
Hannah Nightingale from the Post Millennial reports…
Democrat-run cities have seen a shocking spike in carjacking cases over the last year, with some cities seeing the highest number of carjackings in decades.
According to an NBC report, carjackings are up “55 percent in New York, 63 percent in Minneapolis, and a staggering 85 percent in Philadelphia,” though the report does not specify a timeframe.
According to police data obtained by CNN, New York City has seen the number of carjackings within the city quadruple in the last four years. The city recorded more than 500 carjackings in 2021, up from 328 in 2020, 132 in 2019, and 112 in 2018.
In Philadelphia, carjackings have nearly quadrupled between 2015 and 2021. The city recorded more than 800 last year, up from about 170 in 2015.
Last year in Chicago, the city recorded more than 1,800 carjackings, marking the most on record in 20 years. 2020 saw five times as many carjackings in the city as 2014.
Recent reports of carjackings in the news include one in New York City, in which a man stole a car in broad daylight in midtown Manhattan. That car was one of three stolen within hours of each other in the same area of the city.
In Washington, DC, a DC Council candidate was carjacked at a gas station, with a man pointing the gun at Nate Lemming’s face “before I can blink an eye.”
In Philadelphia, a man delivering food was confronted by a teenager who demanded his keys. The teenager was shot, leaving the teen in critical condition, according to NBC News.
The spike in carjackings within the city prompted the police department to issue a guide to residents on how to survive a carjacking. Tip include giving up their car and leaving the scene, making a mental note of the suspect for identification thereafter, and “let the carjacker know” if there’s a child onboard.
Police say many times young people are responsible for the carjackings, with Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown stating:
“Our car jacking offenders are increasingly younger and younger. We’re trying to encourage our young people to make better decisions.”
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https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/09/21/man-kills-republican-teenager-with-his-car-over-political-argument/
It’s been said that in the 21st century, the idea of another American Civil War is simply unthinkable. But as the country becomes more partisan and politically polarized, and hysterical culture warriors continue to impose a radical social and ideological agenda on the general population, these political tensions can and will eventually boil over.
The question now is: what form will this pressure release take? Will it transmute into a constructive and healing political debate, or will it simply turn violent, with the state eventually moving-in to restore law and order?
The signs are very worrying indeed…
Cortney Weil of The Blaze reports…
A North Dakota man is in custody after he allegedly struck and killed a teenager over a political disagreement.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Shannon Brandt, 41, chased Cayler Ellingson, 18, down an alley in McHenry, North Dakota, and then hit him with his SUV, according to police. Police say that Brandt called 911 at approximately 2:35 a.m. local time to report the incident, telling the dispatcher that Ellingson was a member of a “Republican extremist group” who had attempted to sic his friends on Brandt. Brandt supposedly stated he was afraid the group was “coming to get him.” Brandt also allegedly admitted that he had been drinking.
Ellingson had just attended a street dance earlier that night. He had called his mother — Sheri Larson Ellingson, according to a GoFundMe account created to raise money for her son’s funeral expenses — to ask her to come pick him up. Cayler was killed before she could get there.
Brandt is allegedly an acquaintance of Sheri’s.
