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Former Defense Secretary Claims Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to ‘Destroy the Drug Labs,’
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/politics/mark-esper-book-trump.html
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President Donald J. Trump in 2020 asked Mark T. Esper, his defense secretary, about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to “destroy the drug labs” and wipe out the cartels, maintaining that the United States’ involvement in a strike against its southern neighbor could be kept secret, Mr. Esper recounts in his upcoming memoir.
One such idea emerged from Mr. Trump, who was unhappy about the constant flow of drugs across the southern border, during the summer of 2020. Mr. Trump asked Mr. Esper at least twice if the military could “shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs.”
“They don’t have control of their own country,” Mr. Esper recounts Mr. Trump saying. When Mr. Esper raised various objections, Mr. Trump said that “we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly,” adding that “no one would know it was us.” Mr. Trump said he would just say that the United States had not conducted the strike, Mr. Esper recounts, writing that he would have thought it was a joke had he not been staring Mr. Trump in the face.
In the fall of 2019, a push was made within the United States government to designate Mexican-based cartels not only as Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO) but as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) as reported by Borderland Beat. Based on the mere definitions many drug cartels have committed acts akin to terrorist activity, with the main difference being the end goal of many of the terrorist-like activities committed by cartels is for monetary gain.
In defense of the sovereignty of the nation, Mexico fought back against the designation, “Mexico would never accept,” Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said. While the U.S. and Mexico have a history of cooperation in combating the cartels, principally through sharing intelligence, Mexico’s concern would be that U.S. forces would potentially move against targets independently, violating Mexico’s sovereignty.
Mexico’s Senate president, Ricardo Monreal, a member of the president’s party, said via Twitter on Tuesday night that the designation would allow the U.S. government “to use legal and institutional means that would permit it to act unilaterally in our territory with the justification of pursuing those groups.”
Currently, no Mexican DTOs are on the terrorist list. Colombian FARC Dissident groups were recently added to the terrorist list, they control large portions of the cocaine trade in that country but largely to fund their political objectives and paramilitary operations.
Many of the consequences of the two different designations are similar; from the freezing of assets, and sanctioning of companies/organizations and persons to refusing them entry to the United States. The main difference for the designation of cartels as FTOs could allow the US military to conduct operations in Mexico and attack the cartels as part of the ongoing war on terror.
The official designation of a group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization triggers more robust means of combat under the Authorization for Use of Military Force act enacted in 2001, which is still in force today allowing military action against those associated with terrorist acts. Had the designation occurred, Trump could have justified military strikes against the cartels under that authorization.
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He has a book coming out so makes claims about Trump to boost sales IMO.
Patriots, right.
German study: Number of those suffering from serious complications after taking the COVID vaccine is 40 times higher than previously known
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Charité researcher calls for ambulances for vaccine victims
A study on side effects after corona vaccinations is being carried out at the Charité in Berlin. Professor Harald Matthes is leading the study and is calling for more contact points for those affected.
The number of serious complications after vaccinations against Sars-CoV-2 is 40 times higher than previously recorded by the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI). This is one of the results of a long-term observational study by the Berlin Charité. The study director Professor Harald Matthes is now calling for more contact points for those affected.
Study with around 40,000 participants
The study “Safety Profile of Covid-19 Vaccines”, which focuses on the effects and side effects of the various vaccines, has been running for a year. Around 40,000 vaccinated people are interviewed at regular intervals throughout Germany. Participation in the study is voluntary and independent of how the vaccines work in the subjects.
One result: eight out of 1,000 vaccinated people struggle with serious side effects. “The number is not surprising,” explains Prof. Dr. Harald Matthes, head of the study: “It corresponds to what is known from other countries such as Sweden, Israel or Canada. Incidentally, even the manufacturers of the vaccines had already determined similar numbers in their studies.” With conventional vaccines, such as against polio or measles, the number of serious side effects is significantly lower.
Some side effects last for months
Serious side effects are symptoms that last for weeks or months and require medical attention. These include muscle and joint pain, heart muscle inflammation, excessive reactions of the immune system and neurological disorders, i.e. impairments of the nervous system. “Most side effects, including severe ones, subside after three to six months, 80 percent heal. But unfortunately there are also some that last much longer,” reports Professor Matthes.
[Side effects related to a COVID-19 vaccine can be reported online to the Paul Ehrlich Institute. The aim here is to be able to identify previously unknown risks after vaccination.]
Doctors: “Discuss it openly without being considered anti-vaccination”
Around 179 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Germany so far. “In view of around half a million cases with serious side effects after Covid vaccinations in Germany, we doctors have to take action,” emphasizes Prof. Matthes, who, in addition to his work at the Berlin Charité, is on the board of several medical specialist societies and has been systematically examining the effect of medicinal products for years. “We have to come to therapy offers, discuss them openly at congresses and in public without being considered anti-vaccination.”
Victims must be taken seriously
It is particularly depressing for those affected that their complaints are often not taken seriously. Doctors in private practice would too often not associate the symptoms with the vaccinations because they were either not prepared for them or because they did not want to expose themselves, given the heated political mood.
This is also evidenced by the many letters to the head of the study, Professor Matthes, in which those affected describe their often months-long search for effective medical help and recognition. They show that suspected cases are not officially reported. And so the numbers of serious vaccination reactions at the Paul Ehrlich Institute, at 0.2 reports per 1,000 vaccine doses, are also significantly lower than those in the Charité study.
Special outpatient clinics for vaccination victims required
There are already a number of facilities that would be able to take on at least the initial care of patients with vaccination complications: “We already have several special outpatient clinics for treating the long-term consequences of Covid disease,” explains Prof. Matthes. “Many clinical pictures that are known from ‘Long Covid’ correspond to those that occur as side effects of vaccination.” The doctors in such clinics are therefore experienced enough. Now it is about opening the outpatient clinics to patients with vaccination complications. Depending on the extent of the complication, patients could then be referred to specialist departments such as neurology or cardiology. And intensive care units and dialysis centers could also be involved in the treatment: “They have experience with blood purification.”
Hemodialysis as therapy
Both at the Charité and in other clinics, effective treatments for people with vaccination complications are being developed: “The presence of too many autoantibodies in the blood plasma of those affected is often the cause of the problem,” explains Prof. Matthes. “Therefore, it must first be determined which and how many of these autoantibodies are present.” Laboratories that can carry out the relevant tests must therefore also be brought on board.
As soon as the diagnosis is clear, the aim is to remove the excess antibodies from the blood by means of immune suppressant drugs or a special blood purification. The method has been known for a long time, but is too unspecific: “We only want to reduce incorrectly-formed autoantibodies, i.e. those that have developed against Sars-CoV-2.” The problem, however, is that the treatments for long Covid, including rehabilitation measures, are now paid for by the health insurance companies, but comparable treatments for vaccination complications only in very rare cases. The committed doctor emphasizes that there is an urgent need for improvement here and advises patients and their family doctors: “If the insurance company refuses to cover the costs of a measure, file an objection, if necessary a second time.”
And no matter how many people are being injured, killed or made infertile, this will go on and on and on, since it’s part and parcel of the plan. It’s time for the sheeple to wake up and smell the stinking, corpse-strewn open abattoir they helped create with their compliance, self-righteous malignity and outright malice towards those warning voices.
Bill Gates on French TV news, “Vaccine is a miracle, saving millions of lives”
Billionaire poison peddler Bill Gates last night on France 2 explains without contradiction that those who die of Covid are the unvaccinated.
“If you look at those who die, these are the people who aren’t vaccinated. It’s a miracle that has prevented millions of deaths.”