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On today's show, McCarron discusses how the investment by rich industrialists in these neurocognitive weapons, including AI and even memes, is leading to large-scale human manipulation. By tracing the introduction of microwave technology to World War I, McCarron moves through the next 100 years to demonstrate how German and Soviet scientists focused on advanced intelligence operations utilizing microwave generators to manipulate brain waves. Lockheed Martin and the U.S.'s own National Security Administration built upon the developing research of these scientists to advance even greater methods of using remote influencing technology to inject thought and reflex control into unassuming humans. Today's war is a battle for our minds, says McCarron, and the creators of and investors in info technology are the new generals. GUEST OVERVIEW: Michael Joseph McCarron was a signals intelligence analyst with the U.S. Navy serving on fast-attack submarines and has a background in the Intelligence Community. He is a software engineer by profession with a focus on Cyber-security, specializing in cyber threats to human biology. One of the most important books published this year is Battlespace of the Mind: AI and Cybernetics in Information Warfare. Author and former Naval Intelligence Analyst Michael Joseph McCarron explores the advanced military weapons being used by world military powers to promote thought and reflex control. https://feirmeoirsonrai.me/ 

It is an honour to have the world famous cardiologist Dr Peter McCullough join us on Hearts of Oak again. We are getting a taster of the political shockwaves that are coming down the line with presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy recently saying that the public were duped on the COVID Jab and of course we have RFK Jr actively red-pilling the left. And just in the last week we have seen another slew of data on vaccine harms and excess deaths. The truth will be told and Dr McCullough is leading the vanguard as one of the main catalysts of getting this information out to the public. Dr. Peter McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, managing the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developing after the COVID-19 vaccine in Dallas, TX, USA. Since the outset of the pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster and has published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection,” the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the American Journal of Medicine and subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. McCullough has 51 peer-reviewed publications on the infection and has commented extensively on the medical response to the COVID-19 crisis in The Hill, America Out Loud, and on FOX NEWS Channel. On November 19, 2020, Dr. McCullough testified in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and throughout 2021 in the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, Colorado General Assembly, New Hampshire Senate, and South Carolina Senate concerning many aspects of the pandemic response. Dr. McCullough has two years of dedicated academic and clinical efforts in combating the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In doing so, he has reviewed thousands of reports, participated in scientific congresses, group discussions, press releases, and been considered among the world's experts on COVID-19. Dr. McCullough is also known for his iconic views on the state of medical truth in America and around the globe. He pierces through the thin veil of mainstream media stories that skirt the major issues and provide no tractable basis for durable insight. McCullough aims to bring critical information and insights to the viewers and listeners in a concise and understandable format. Sit back, take notes if you are so inclined, and you will always come away better informed and more settled in your direction forward regarding personal and family medical navigation, home and health products, diagnostic tests, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and the path forward for you and your loved ones. 'The Courage to Face Covid 19' in hardback or paperback.... https://couragetofacecovid.com/products/the-courage-to-face-covid-19?variant=41888573685916 Follow and support Dr. McCullough at the links below Website: https://www.petermcculloughmd.com/ Substack: https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/p_mcculloughmd Twitter: https://twitter.com/P_McCulloughMD Truth: https://truthsocial.com/@petermcculloughmd Telegram: https://t.me/C19ExpertChannel America Out Loud: https://www.americaoutloud.com/the-mccullough-report/ Concerned Doctors: https://concerneddoctors.org/dr-peter-mccullough-videos/ Interview recorded 11.5.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Dr. Peter McCullough. He re-joined us, having been with us last year, and we start on the political side. I saw him at CPAC, and Vivek Ramaswamy, who is a US presidential candidate for the Republicans, said on a talk show he was duped, and the American people were duped, on COVID vaccines. He said if he was doing it again, he would do it differently. Wow. So I asked Dr. McCullough his thoughts on that, And then on his thoughts on Robert Kennedy Jr. standing for the Democrats and how that will blow up in the conversation on the left. Then we're going to just a number of reports and studies that have come out. Trida vaccine injury syndromes converges on victims and Dr. McCullough said this is what he's seen more and more regularly. This is the usual syndrome that he is seeing. And long COVID, being vaxxed. So it seems as though there's a correlation with that, talking about mRNA in breast milk and the impact this has on pregnant women and their unborn children. Then the reactivation of funding, federal funding for the Eco Health Alliance, unbelievable, but it is true. Even though they've been discredited, they've now been handed half a million dollars for funding. And then myocarditis, not recovering 80% of six months after vaccination, only 20% of young people are recovering within six months from myocarditis. And Dr. McCullough writes this in his sub stack that you need to go to and delve into this and understand this more deeply. And then we end up with excess deaths. Huge range of topics. And as always, Dr. McCullough brings his expert analysis to all of them. And hello, Hearts of Oak. It is wonderful to have back with us once again, the world-renowned cardiologist and chief scientific officer of The Wellness Company. That's Dr. Peter McCullough. Dr. McCullough, thank you for your time today. (Dr Peter McCullough) Thanks for having me. Not at all. And I understand that you are one of the most published cardiologists ever in America. I think it was a thousand publications and 660 citations. So you bring a wealth of understanding and knowledge and background to this. So I appreciate your time today. Thank you. You know, people have always asked, what do all those citations mean? You know, as a general rule in the National Library of Medicine, about 25 citations would qualify somebody to be a professor of medicine. And those who really race up in terms of their academic contributions, it just means they've looked at more data. There's been more scholarship. I focused on heart and kidney disease at interaction, made key discoveries, led key innovative groups, you know, in many areas of medicine. I've led data safety monitoring boards for important drugs, devices, strategies, presented at the European Medicine Agencies, the National Institutes of Health, New York Academy of Sciences. So I was well known in medicine before COVID-19. Now, since the pandemic, I've directed my scholarship entirely to the, pandemic response, have over 60 peer-reviewed publications in this area, including the seminal papers describing the methods of treating COVID-19 to reduce hospitalization and death. Wow, well I want to delve into the medical side but as I saw you at, as I said before, saw you whenever I was over at CPAC and you were always in many interviews being mobbed, but, if I could ask you some, two political thoughts I had. I saw that Vivek Ramaswamy, who's a candidate for presidential candidate, standing for the Republican side. I think a few days ago, he had said, I think it was the Steve Deace show, that he well, he had had two doses of the jab, but he said that he was duped. And I thought that was quite key. And then he went on to say if he was if he were to do it again, he wouldn't have done it the same way. But that for him to say he was duped, what were your thoughts whenever you heard a presidential candidate saying something like that. You know, we've been looking for some signals from the presidential candidates regarding the vaccines. The COVID-19 vaccine debacle is one of the biggest issues on the minds of Americans, and many of the candidates have been skirting around it. They just haven't addressed where they stood. And congratulations to Steve Deace, a friend of mine who, you know, Ramaswamy is a young man. He doesn't have considerable experience. You know, many think that young candidates, they're largely angling from some experience and maybe a cabinet position. But it was nice when Deace asked him directly about it, where he said he took the two shots, he regretted it. He felt America was duped. That means to be fooled or deceived by the government narrative. Said he would have done things differently. And so he left it open. I think that's journalists like yourself and others will have to ask him, well, what would he have done differently there? A young man like him who's thin and fit, there's no theoretical benefit of the vaccines, just the real harms, the real hard data on fatal and non-fatal vaccine injury syndrome. So he probably felt like he, later on, realized he took a personal risk with his health and regrets it. Now, that's on the Republican side and I'm curious and intrigued to see how that's brought into the debate. But on the Democrat side, you have Robert Kennedy Jr. And whenever he announced he was running, I was fascinated because he would be on the opposite political side as me. But actually, during the last three years, you rub shoulders with people you wouldn't normally. And he has been extremely vocal throughout his whole life on vaccines. And what were your thoughts on that? Because I think that could just blow the whole discussion, because again, you're thinking to the Democrat side, this conversation maybe hasn't been had as fully as maybe on the right. And him stepping into that, to me that changes the whole conversation. It certainly does. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's the son of the late Bobby Kennedy, our former attorney general, and the nephew of John F. Kennedy, certainly comes from a storied, family history of politics. He's a lifelong Democrat. He's not anti-vaccine. I know him very well. He's simply pushing for safe and effective vaccines. He doesn't want to see any more Americans harmed by vaccine side effects. The benefits of any vaccine are not, compelling enough to have harm done to the population. And we know since 1986, all the vaccine manufacturers have liability protection. So that isn't fair when someone is paralyzed or has a terrible side effect from a vaccine. And I think pretty clearly he believes no one should, receive any pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal for vaccines. It shouldn't be mandated for school or for employment or military service. And we should have, all the states in the country should have full tripartite vaccine exemptions, meaning philosophical exemption, don't feel like you don't need to take it on philosophical grounds, religious and medical. So there should be freedom. He's pushing for freedom. This is very important. Medical freedom is related to social and economic freedoms. They're all related. And that's what I told America when I gave my Lincoln Memorial address. You know, that was a few minutes before Kennedy was up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with me. So I think we're very well aligned on this. You know, what I find interesting is that the COVID Community States Program weighed in from North-eastern University and Harvard, and a huge sample. So they actually figured out who took the vaccine. And the answer is in America, 25% of adult Americans, like me, did not take the vaccine. I didn't take the COVID vaccine. Best decision I ever made. I feel great. I don't have to worry about blood clots or heart damage or any of these lingering effects that we're seeing now. So many people who skipped the vaccine are so grateful they made the right choice. So that 25%, many of them actually suffered reprisal for doing this. They lost their jobs, family strife. There was a lot of unnecessary consequences that happened to people who made the right decision. Now, We only have 60% of the adult Americans who vote, only 60% vote. The 25% who didn't take the vaccine like me are likely to vote. So now we have nearly half of the voting block for the presidency where the vaccine is the issue. And everybody wants to know where do the candidates stand on the failed COVID-19 vaccines. That uptick really intrigued me and it's something that's come out in the UK that we now have a database you can put in your zip code for you over there or postcode and you can find out supposedly the uptake and one of the striking things on that is the booster uptick is around 1 to 2% in many areas and I probably didn't necessarily believe a lot of the data that were getting. But that 25% that didn't, I thought, wow, there's at last some honesty with the figures. And I guess you looking at these figures of the last three years, there's been massive scepticism of the information we're being told. Well, I'm glad you mentioned that because as the COVID Community States Program, which was an academic epidemiologic program, as they were reporting 25% unvaccinated, the CDC at that time was reporting 8% unvaccinated. Well, what's the difference? And the answer is the CDC was over counting. If patients forgot their vaccine card, they went to a different pharmacy, they could have had a new card started at the booster stage and been counted again. So we now know that the CDC does not have accurate vaccination data. There tended to be overestimating vaccination. Our CDC is currently reporting 16% booster uptake, and that's almost certainly an overestimate. We need to know booster uptake by time. Because the boosters only last theoretically six months. Clinically, it's about half of that. So no matter who took a booster more than six months ago, they're effectively unvaccinated. Yeah. If I can just discuss some of the things you've posted, even just the last week on Twitter, and of course, if people go to your Twitter handle, they can get the link to your Substack, the website, everything is there and encourage people to to sign up. Certainly your Substack, which has been a fantastic source of information for many of us. And one of the actually it was America Outloud.com, which I know you write for, had the headline you put up a few days ago was try to vaccine injury syndromes converges on victims. It said amongst the most common and frustrating COVID-19 vaccine injury syndromes are small fibre neuropathy, pleurodynia and POTS, which I can't even pronounce what's there, and you had a lady who came on and acted as if she was going to see her doctor and discussed what, but tell us about some, because we hear all different side effects and we'll maybe touch on myocarditis a little bit, but it was those three coming together and it seems to be every week, every two weeks, there's another issue that comes up. It's true, but this triad that I pointed out far and away is the most common constellation. I've been seeing patients now with vaccine injuries now for two years, you know, steady flow in the clinic, so I really have a good handle on this. And so the triage is the following. One is pleurodynia, just some nonspecific chest pain. Sometimes it hurts to cough or take a deep breath or laugh. Sometimes when they put pressure on the chest, one can feel pain, which is called pleurodynia. The next one is a small fibre neuropathy, that is feeling numbness and tingling, prickling in the hands and the feet, usually sometimes the back of the legs. And then the third is POTS or Posterior Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. And patients will recognize this because their heart rate unexpectedly will shoot up when they're doing nothing, then go down. Blood pressure up and down. When they exercise, things seem to be out of proportion to what they need in terms of exercise, and they feel generally unwell. And so I was lucky enough to have a patient reach out to me. She's very sophisticated, and she gave consent, and she told us her story and she had that triad. And I went through the questions I would ask her, the tests I would order to rule out serious problems like myocarditis, like major problems in the central nervous system, et cetera. And then what medicinal empiric approach would I take? And for the pleurodynia, the drug I prescribed the most is called Colchicine. This is a form of an anti-inflammatory. There's about two dozen trials in acute COVID-19 showing that it plays a role. So we know it's helpful there. The largest one of note's called the CO-Corona trial done out of the Montreal Heart Institute, over 4,000 subjects, probably the best and largest outpatient COVID study. So colchicine is also used to treat gout and forms of inflammation. So it seems to be very important for the pleurodinium. For the POTS, the posterior orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. That's actually too much adrenaline being released from the sympathetic chain of ganglia in the neck as well as the adrenal glands. And I found that it was a relatively underutilized beta blocker called Natalo, which has what's called intrinsic sympathomimetic activity. It seems to modulate the alpha and beta receptors just the way we need in order for that nervous system feedback loop to the brain to be corrected. And then the final triage in this entire problem is actually dissolving the spike protein itself, which is loaded up with COVID-19, the illness and serial vaccines. Remember, we get spike protein in our body, we can't get it out for months, if not a year or more, after the infection, as well as the vaccines. Each shot of the vaccine installs large amounts of spike protein. There we're utilizing nattokinase. Nattokinase is a natural enzyme that's derived from the fermentation of soy is discovered by the Japanese. A bacteria that breaks it down is Bacillus subtilis natto. And it creates this fermented product as an enzyme. The Japanese have been using it for over a thousand years. That is eat consuming natto. But we now have a supplement they've used for about two decades. They use it for cardiovascular applications. a form of a blood thinner, so it's a serious supplement to take. The current recommended dose is 2,000 fibrinolytic units or 100 milligrams twice a day, it's well within the range of safety. It's been safety tested up to 80,000 units at a single time, so it's well within the safety limit. The caveats are bleeding, mucosal bleeding from the nose or mouth, and then a soy allergies. Otherwise, it is a safe supplement. It's not immediate that this three-component therapeutic program works, but most patients after two months, they start to come back and they start to feel like they're on the way back. So I wanted to share that. Many of the doctors that are sought out nowadays are with The Wellness Company. I advise that company as a chief scientific officer so they're well aware of that approach. But I have to tell you, that's my most common approach I use in clinic and I'm glad we finally found something that can help people through this. I've tried hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, fluvoxamine, prednisone, a whole variety of different drugs and I've really settled on these three. Two prescription drugs and then one over-the-counter supplement. That's really helpful. And I think many people are concerned that if they did have any of these and they went to see their normal doctor, that actually in the doctor's mind would not be thinking that actually these could be related and therefore their concerns could be dismissed. I agree. The first question a patient should ask a doctor is, did they take the COVID vaccine and did they push it on their patients? And if they did, the patient ought to have a serious conversation with it because that doctor made some grave mistakes with his or her own healthcare and obviously pushed a dangerous vaccine on their patients. And we now know large numbers of people have died after the vaccine, have suffered injuries or disabilities, and those doctors really owe their patients an apology. There was another tweet, you said, most people with long COVID are vaxxed, so multiple spike protein exposures are making Americans sick. And I know I've talked to UK friends and US friends, they seem to think the solution to long COVID is getting a booster and another booster. And tell me, tell us about that, because people are ill and with long COVID and some people it's quite a dark journey. It's true. Long COVID, remember this occurred before the vaccine, so the respiratory illness clearly causes it. It almost exclusively occurs in people who are sick enough to be hospitalized, about 50% will have it. They feel generally unwell, weight loss of skeletal muscle, hair loss, skin and nail changes, headache, ear ringing, fatigue, brain fog. It really bothers people. Now, with lesser degrees of severity of COVID, there's less and less long COVID. The best way to prevent it is actually early treatment. If we can snuff out the virus very early and get relatively little exposure to the virus in the body, that's the best way to do it. We again believe what's driving this is the pathogenic spike protein, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Now, the vaccines install more spike protein. So there's no way the vaccine can make it better. It's going to clearly make it worse. But what we have in many countries, a good example is Australia, I was just there a few months ago. Virtually all of Australia was pre-vaccinated. They were all pre-vaccinated. Because the vaccines don't work, they get COVID anyway. So those who are having long COVID, it's far more severe in Australia because they've been pre-vaccinated and they've been loaded with the spike protein. So then we have to work our way out of it. But I wouldn't want anybody to think we should take a vaccine to reduce the chances of long COVID because the vaccines don't work, people get COVID anyway, and it just makes the long COVID syndromes worse. And so as we sit here today, a paper by Claussen and colleagues from Harvard suggests that 94% of Americans have already had COVID. I've already told you 75% took vaccines. So anybody with long COVID likely has had both exposures. Yeah, absolutely. There was another study or news piece from Trialsite News and that was on maternal mortality skyrocketing, gestational thrombotic complications up and MRA in the breast milk. And I think the MRA in the breast milk, that should fill a lot of people with big concern. I know that's been talked about before, but I mean, tell us about this because you end that tweet by saying COVID vaccine should never have been allowed in pregnant women. Early in 2021, Dr. Raphael Stricker in San Francisco, who runs, by the way, the largest fetal loss centre in the United States, he's an expert. He's an allergist, immunologist, but he's an expert on pregnant women and losing their babies. And Dr. Stricker and I published in trial site news that the COVID-19s were vaccine category X, and that's a regulatory category saying that they have a dangerous mechanism of action. They install the lethal spike protein in the body, and we have no experience in pregnant women. They were excluded from randomized trials and no assurances would be safe to the woman or the baby, none whatsoever. So it's pregnancy category X. It's very important. Pregnant women should have never taken the vaccine. Never, never. It doesn't matter what the doctors say. Pregnant women are responsible for themselves, their bodies, and their babies. Now, pregnant women have a lower risk of severe COVID outcomes as shown by Pinellas and colleagues in a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine. So, we weren't worried about pregnant women. If they got severe COVID, they're treatable, you know, and we can treat them with an array of drugs. By the way, hydroxychloroquine, very safe in pregnancy. We've, you know, it's been actually dedicated pregnancy studies with hydroxy. So, so we know for sure it's safe, as is aspirin, prednisone, and the other drugs that we normally use. Now, what's coming out is very, very disturbing. First, last summer in JAMA, a paper by Hannah and colleagues showed that breastfeeding women who take the vaccine, they actually are transmitting the messenger RNA through milk to the babies. And this is a terrible, very worrisome finding. Now genetic material getting into the bodies of recently arrived babies in the world. No idea what this is gonna do to the children. It can't be good. It's definitely not natural. The next piece of information came, first author is Hoyert, a single author paper, analysing data from the National Centre for Health Statistics. And there, it's published on the CDC website, March of 2023, showing record maternal mortality. That is, women dying during pregnancy or 42 days after the pregnancy. That was the definition according to their highest risk group, African Americans, but at all groups. They've erased progress in maternal mortality. Now, in the same sub-stack, I juxtapose the CDC report that indicates 65% of pregnant women have either taken the vaccine, ill-advised, before or during pregnancy. Despite our warnings that it's pregnancy category X, now we have the tragic case that unfolded last week of the death of U.S. Olympic sprinter Tori Bowie. And what we know there is this is just absolutely terrible. She's found dead at home, and she's seven months pregnant. The U.S. Track and Field Association has mandated COVID-19 vaccination, so they've been silent now. USTAF and family have been silent on whether or not she took the vaccine. But the concern is that she took it, and she had a fatal complication, either blood clot, heart damage, or some type of intracranial catastrophe. Wow, wow. And of course, we have learned, I think just could have been yesterday, about the reactivation of federal funding for Eco Health Alliance. To touch on that, because obviously, your government, our government, they haven't learned anything over these last three years. I think it's very intentional. Peter Daszak, who's the president of the Eco Health Alliance, they're basically an NIH contractor. They work with academic groups. They take the blueprint for viruses that are basically engineered in the lab by computer modelling by US researchers, and then they shuttle the plans over to the Chinese or other Asian countries where the the work is done in order to create new viruses. Daszak was involved in shuttling over the plans from Ralph Baric to create the chimeric SARS-CoV-2 virus. And Baric published this in 2015 in Nature Communications and proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They created SARS-CoV-2 and published the methods and how they did it, chimeric parts, of a virus from a bat, parts of a virus from a known coronavirus in order to get it to invade a human respiratory epithelial tract. Peter Daszak, early in 2021, led a group of doctors. After they had met on a conference call with Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins and Jeremy Farrar from the Wellcome Trust in the UK, Daszak led a group of authors to publish one of a series of papers. It was a dozen academic papers that were intentionally fraudulent. They were deceiving the public, describing the virus came out of nature when Daszak himself knew it came out of basically his plans that he drew up with Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. This was an intentional cover-up campaign. This came out in the U.S. House Select Committee for the Coronavirus Origins, led by House Representative Comer, and it's shocking that the NIH, and actually the branch that Fauci used to lead, the National Immunology Infectious Disease and Allergy Branch, that they actually released his former R01 grant. His R01 grant was distilled to look among different bats to try to find viral strains that could jump into humans. I mean, it's just simply asking for trouble. Daszak is off, and you know, these are small grants, it was only about $500,000. It's not the size of the grant that matters, it's the fact that he's going to be able to now shuttle academic capital to Asia. Daszak says that now he's going to take this to the Duke University branch in Singapore, but the grant describes the bat caves in China going right back to the same work. So you're right. It appears as if the NIH is wilfully blind to this active cover-up. They don't care. They're pursuing this biological threat research. They must have been given orders high up to continue to do this. We have the National Security Administration, the FBI, Department of Energy and NIH, the House and the Senate all agreeing that the origin of SARS-CoV-2 was the lab. It was a US innovation contracted to the Chinese, and it leaked out of the lab in Wuhan, China. But to continue to pursue this, many are saying, and I agree, that it's reckless, it's irresponsible, and it really shows deep complicity that the biopharmaceutical complex is at work creating more biological threats for the world. And Peter Daszak is leading the way. Well, let's certainly watch what happens on that. On the, back to the specific medical side. You had written a piece on your website, and I think the headline was, myocarditis not recovering 80% at six months after vaccination. Tell us about it, because again, people are expecting that the body can recover quickly, but this says that only 20% of people with that had recovered over six months. Another disturbing report, this comes from Yale School of Medicine. They had 17 young teenagers in the hospital with myocarditis. Remember, teenagers should be going to high school. They shouldn't be hospitalized with myocarditis. They ill-advised took one of the COVID-19 vaccines and they got in deep trouble. Sky-high troponin levels showing heart damage, probably had chest pain, shortness of breath, arrhythmias, other manifestations, and they undergo serial MRIs. Now, they did rule out any exposure to COVID, so that was very clean. This is purely due to the vaccine. And they found that in 80%, the MRI at 200 days was not getting better. 20% it got better. You know, these small areas of late gadolinium enhancement that we see on MRI, they should resolve. Previous work done years ago by Bruckman and colleagues from Germany showed that the heart can remodel a small area of inflammation. I'm concerned that the genetic material, Pfizer and Moderna, is sufficiently long-lasting, the spike protein long-lasting, the body keeps producing more of it, that the children have ongoing cardiac injury and it's not clearing up on MRI. This could leave some to have a scar, and when they have a scar they could be at increased risk for two things, heart failure later on in life or cardiac arrest, particularly with sports. Wow, and on sports, we've seen a number of sports stars. The papers seem to be regularly full of another sports star having retired early or having complications. I mean, tell us about, because the stories are there, but maybe the dots are not necessarily being joined up. Well, let's take the issue of death in young people. There's a paper on my substack that I quote from about 15 years ago, and you can find it on the Courageous Discourse sub-stack, but it was basically describing death among college students. It does happen rarely. But the point of the paper was 87% of the time, we know the cause of death. Readily apparent, you know, cancer or suicide or homicide or a drug overdose, motor vehicle accident. What we're seeing now is scores of athletes, scores, sudden death and no explanation, no explanation at all. And it's called died suddenly, Edward Dowd has compiled an entire monograph on this in the life insurance roles of sudden unexplained death skyrocketing, mortality skyrocketing in every system. John Stockton, former Utah Jazz star, is keeping track of the athletes in the United States and there's hundreds now that have died, have died on the court or in practice. It seems to be the adrenaline that precipitates the sudden death with vaccine-induced myocarditis. And we knew actually before the COVID vaccines that we can't let young people with myocarditis exercise because it will trigger a sudden death event. So we knew this ahead of time. And what's happened is the sports teams have mandated the vaccines, but they haven't provided any safety safeguards for the athletes. And so they suffer heart damage. And then during competition, we never know who's going to have a cardiac arrest. Polycritus and myself analysed this issue, using really just a blog, a public blog of European athletes went down. But it's pretty rigorous. There had to be four or more reports, and you could easily identify that the athlete went down. And the data showed this, that before COVID-19, in the stable period of about 10 or 15 years before COVID-19, the number of cardiac arrests in Europe in the professional leagues, mainly soccer and rugby, but you call football. Age 35 and below, pro and semi-pro, number of cardiac arrests 29 per year. Now, fast forward with vaccination and in 2021 forward, that number came out now, you know, comparing apples to apples, 283. So there's about a tenfold increased risk of sudden death with mass-mandated COVID-19 vaccination. We have clear fatal cases of the COVID-19 vaccines causing myocarditis and sudden death with autopsies, so we know it's happening. And now the great concern is so many athletes have taken it, and they want to know what to do. They have great regret. It's been an absolute horror for our athletes unnecessarily to be vaccinated. A story that came out just today, and again we're seeing headlines that we wouldn't have seen a year ago, I think you're probably the same there, but the headline was, I had to reread this four or five times, the headline in the Daily Mirror was, Brits are dying in their tens of thousands and we don't really have any idea why. And they talked about between May and December 2022, that 32,000 excess deaths. And to have a headline that honest, we really have no idea. That's telling. And I'm assuming, I don't know whether it's in the States, whether you are beginning to, the media are beginning to drop little headlines like that in to begin to have the conversation or not yet. No, it's starting to happen. I was on national TV this morning and the morning anchor mentioned death after vaccination, so it's starting to come up. What we know is that every mortality system is reporting skyrocketing mortality, primarily of younger individuals. A paper published by Skidmore in BMC Infectious Diseases estimated in 2021 that 278,000 Americans had died due to the vaccine. And that matches roughly what VAERS was reporting for that year with a multiplier of about 30. It's very consistent with a paper from Columbia, same year, Pentecost and Seligman. So we have multiple sources of data. We think we lost about a quarter million Americans in the first year of the campaign due to the vaccine, a similar number in the next year. We may be over 600,000. Now, that's going to exceed the amount of casualties we had in the civil war. So this is a very, very serious problem. The vaccines were considered a wartime countermeasure. So the government agencies didn't consider it a public health measure. It's not considered like a standard pharmaceutical. It's considered like basically a war initiative, where there's going to be casualties. And boy, have there been casualties with this vaccine. So, before COVID, the general mortality that we had in the United States, or in UK for that matter, is known. And then it's 40% known antecedent heart disease, 40% known cancer, or 20% other causes. But in the vast majority, it's known. Death is not a mystery in our countries. And what we're seeing now is just a large fraction where they've taken a vaccine and they've died, and the official cause of death is unknown. And when autopsies are done, two papers, one by Schwab, one by Chavez, and there's been probably about 100 necropsy studies that we're compiling at this stage, they show that when an autopsy is done, 70 to 80% of the time, they have a clear-cut cause of death that's, related to the vaccine. Fatal myocarditis, fatal intracranial haemorrhage or clotting, blood clots and pulmonary embolism, or one of the fatal immunologic syndromes. These are published in well-described vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenic peria, multi-system inflammatory disease. So we have a huge scientific base that's indicating the vaccines are essentially killing large numbers of people worldwide. And is it possible that we could get to the point where any of these companies are liable for it, or is it irrelevant who's in the White House because they've been given that protection? People have said that two conditions may ultimately drop liability shields. The broad liability is not only from the 1986 Vaccine Indemnification Act, but also from the 2005 Prep Act, which says, listen, if we have an invasion of SARS-CoV-2, it's like a war. And so the wartime countermeasures are all, you know, have immunity. But the, two conditions are fraud, that if the public was defrauded by the vaccine manufacturers or the government agencies that were advancing them, the employers that were forcing them. And then the other is actually malicious intent, that indeed, if it was intentionally designed to be harmful, maybe documents would, you know, identify intent. But fraud and malicious intent are the two things that lawyers are looking at most closely. Because, you know, some of these cases are very obvious. Some take the vaccine, they die right in the vaccine centre, or they die the next day. Now, in the UK, as well as the United States, our government, by the way, holds both datasets. They have the entire death database, and they have the vaccine administration database. And if they merge them, we can see how many people die in the first day, in the second day, and look at the temporal relationship. Any death within 30 days, according to regulatory practice, should be assigned to the new drug, in this case the COVID-19 vaccine. And what's the, I mean, I had Tom Fitton on a few days ago from Judicial Watch, and they use freedom of information requests, which we have the same system here. They use it at another level than I've seen before. But will that have to be used as a way to get the data? Because obviously some of the data that had been released from Pfizer, there's so much and it's still been gone through. Will it have to be other freedom of information requests to get more of this data to actually put the jigsaw together. It's true. Well, you point out that the pharmaceutical companies kept their own separate safety data by obligation to the U.S. FDA for 90 days after release. So anything that happens 90 days after they release the product, they have to record everything. Pfizer had recorded 1,223 deaths within a few hours or a few days of taking their vaccine. So it should have been off the market in January of 2021, and Pfizer did not want to release that to the American public. They got a lawyer. The lawyer for the FDA wanted to block it for 55 years. So that was evidence that the US government is colluding with Pfizer to basically hide safety data in the Pfizer vaccine. Moderna still has not released their 90-day data, neither has Janssen or Novavax. So immediately, there should be strong calls for release of the safety data. It should be done under the prosecutorial power of the U.S. Congress, Senate, Department of Justice, Freedom of Information Act, but that's pretty slow and that's citizen-driven. We need our government agencies to step up and have the companies release the data. I mean, I want to know, is Moderna the same or even worse than Pfizer? I suspect it is, because all the studies that directly compared Moderna and Pfizer show greater toxicity with Moderna. There's a paper by Busby and colleagues on myocarditis that showed that. So, you know, our regulatory agencies, FDA, CDC, NIH, MHRA in the UK, and TGA in Australia, they have grossly let us down. They're actually participating in a fraudulent cover-up of a worldwide COVID-19 vaccine safety debacle. Just my final thought about you as a medical professional, and I've talked to UK doctors and they find it extremely difficult. Those who have spoken up, they've been punished. They've been pulled in front of disciplinary committees. And I know you've suffered as well. What is what is that like? And can doctors be vocal about their concerns or really have many had to stay quiet and how has it affected you? Doctors all need to step up. People are dying. They've died with the virus, untreated, and they've died now with the vaccine. This is not a time for doctors to be silent. They need to be bold and relentless, bring the truth forward. I haven't had a single doctor of my medical standing, the chief of medicine or division chief in cardiology or other medical specialty, actually ever look me in the eyes or send me an email or give me a call on the phone. Not a single one. They're absolutely ashamed of themselves. And I've had attacks from anonymous fact checkers making false claims. I've had attacks through certified letter or email, essentially trying to strip me of all my credentials. And every one of these attempts, I just get stronger. I've got a very, very strong voice out there in the world right now, and everybody knows it. I've given more media analysis. I've done more publications, more stage presentations on this issue than all the public health officials combined. And you can't find an area where I've been wrong or where I've been inconsistent. My views have changed as the virus has mutated, but I've been accurate and you know, the world knows it. And because I have so much media exposure, I have more than the public health officials. The world is coming to me and doctors in my circles for the truth. I think these government agencies and the biopharmaceutical complex is in trouble, and they're looking for the exits right now. We've had Francis Collins, head of the NIH, retire prematurely. Anthony Fauci, head of NIAID. We've seen now Rochelle Lewinsky, just two and a half years in the CDC, and a young woman, very junior, now leave the CDC. People are heading for the exits because they know they've committed wrongdoing. Dr. Peter McCullough, thank you so much for your time today. It's an honour to speak with you. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Be sure to follow me on my website, petermcullochmd.com. Make sure you check in my podcast, McCulloch Report on America Out Loud Talk Radio, 2 p.m. Eastern, Saturday and Sunday on the Apple iHeart Podcast Network starting on Tuesday. My book, Courage to Face COVID-19, and I'm starting a new TV show, full investigative TV show in Dallas on AFN Network with bestselling author John Leake. It's called The Second Opinion. I'll see you there or start in June. Thanks so much for having me on the program.

The U.S. Department of Energy and the DOE's National Security Administration announced today that "fusion ignition" had been achieved on December 5, 2022, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. They are calling it the "scientific energy breakeven" - when more energy is produced from fusion than from the laser energy used to drive the experiment. Carried out at the National Ignition Facility, "LLNL'S experiment surpassed the fusion thresh-hold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output..." Touted as a breakthrough in "clean fusion energy" the DOE says it is progress towards a "net-zero carbon economy" using a process of "inertial confinement fusion", whereby a tiny pellet of hydrogen plasma is bombarded with lasers. It has also been referred to as a ‘Holy Grail' able to provide unlimited clean energy, giving the achievement a mystical element akin to the climate activist who smashed tablets on Mt. Sinai recently. Realistically though it may take up to several decades before the fusion reaction results could be scaled upward and used to replace all current forms of energy. If such an achievement has actually be reached and unlimited clean energy with no carbon and no radioactive waste can be developed within a few decades then the world is about to change dramatically with only a little hydrogen fuel able to power cars, houses, etc., for hundreds of years. However, despite the DOE's announcement, the media has reminded us that we should not forget about Climate Change and green technology. The DOE also said the technology would be implemented equitably with a diverse and inclusive workforce. Does this means psychotic, mentally-ill, thieves like Sam Brinton, formerly at the DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy, will be in charge? According the Kardashev scale of energy consumption, harnessing the power of a star, as we now may be able to do, elevates us from a Type I civilization, one harnessing the power of a planet, to a Type II civilization. In other words, a civilization changing advancement, in league with China's artificial sun which achieved 17 minutes of sustained fusion in late 2021-2022, is been reduced to political correctness, with the credit largely being given to a man with dementia in the White House. It's almost as if limitless fusion-generate energy with no byproduct could be a sophisticated form of propaganda to rejuvenate us to investing in the green new deal. What about the dangers of proliferation and of the implications that man could hold the power of a sun in the palm of his hand, thereby becoming God? Ironically, on December 2, the US Air Force unveiled the B-21 Raider, its first new bomber in over 30 years, designed to use weapons that haven't been invented yet. Beyond that is the concern over proliferation, as we have been warned about for decades in cartoons, comics, movies, and television shows. From Spiderman and Batman to the video games Fallout and old animated movies like Atlantis, we have fictional warnings about clean energy, usually nuclear, turned into a weapon. In the Twilight Zone aliens offer unlimited energy to help cure disease and climate problem, but only with 'To Serve Man' for dinner. Beyond the scientific is the occult, with the Livermore experiment being referred to as the 'Holy Grail' - an object that has an ability to touch God and heal the Planet. This is a process of alchemical transformation at its core, turning a little into abundance like Jesus with 5 loaves and 2 fish. It also has the ability to call upon advanced life in the universe, especially as 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of Roswell, an even that occurred just a few years after the first atomic bombs detonated.Here we are tapping into other worlds with fusion and quantum computers, intentionally or unintentionally opening gateways as we merge heaven and earth with the power of the sun in the palm of our hands.

What is cryptology? What is "Purple" and Operation Magic? How are they related to American and Japanese relations? What does any of it have to do with Pearl Harbor? Tune in and try to decipher the enigma of the American Black Chamber and discover the beginnings of American cryptology. You can find the Hardtack Community on all our socials via our linktree. If you have any feedback on our episodes or suggestions for future episodes, please send us an email: hsmilitaryhistory@gmail.com Don't forget to rate us and smash that subscribe button! Sources: Cipher Machines. https://ciphermachines.com/purple. Magic | Operations & Codenames of WWII. https://codenames.info/operation/magic/. Farago, Ladislas, The Broken Seal: The Story of Operation Magic and the Pearl Harbor Disaster. Random House. New York, NY 1967. Friedman, William F. Certain Aspects of "MAGIC'' in the Cryptological Background of the Various Official Investigations into the Atuack on Pearl Harbor. PDF. National Security Administration, 1957. The Washington Naval Conference, 1921–1922. Milestones: 1921–1936 - Office of the Historian (state.gov) "Home." National Security Agency | Central Security Service. https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/friedman-documents/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hardtackpod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hardtackpod/support

Adam Gorightly talks about his most recent book "Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius". In the information-packed discussion, topics include: government disinformation operations, Paul Bennewitz, the Cash-Landrum incident, U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Richard Doty, National Security Administration, APRO, Bill Moore, cattle mutilation, Gabe Valdez, Linda Moulton Howe, the mythos of an underground joint U.S. government/alien base near Dulce New Mexico, hypnotic regression, Myrna Hansen, tinfoil, orbs as (human) military technology, John Leer, Gulf Breeze UFO sightings, Ed Walters, the "Gulf Breeze Six" military personnel, William Leer, David Perkins, Tom Adams, the "Dulce Papers", MJ-12, Ann West, MUFON, William Cooper, government infiltration and manipulation of the UFO community, Bill English, Bob Lazar, anti-government politics in ufology, To The Stars Academy, "disclosure", the Aviary, Robert Bigelow, black projects, foreign intelligence and counter-intelligence, and much more!

Seriah and Chris host Adam Gorightly and discuss his most recent book "Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius". In the information-packed discussion, topics include: government disinformation operations, Paul Bennewitz, the Cash-Landrum incident, U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Richard Doty, National Security Administration, APRO, Bill Moore, cattle mutilation, Gabe Valdez, Linda Moulton Howe, the mythos of an underground joint U.S. government/alien base near Dulce New Mexico, hypnotic regression, Myrna Hansen, tinfoil, orbs as (human) military technology, John Leer, Gulf Breeze UFO sightings, Ed Walters, the "Gulf Breeze Six" military personnel, William Leer, David Perkins, Tom Adams, the "Dulce Papers", MJ-12, Ann West, MUFON, William Cooper, government infiltration and manipulation of the UFO community, Bill English, Bob Lazar, anti-government politics in ufology, To The Stars Academy, "disclosure", the Aviary, Robert Bigelow, black projects, foreign intelligence and counter-intelligence, and much more! This is a fascinating conversation. No matter how much you know about this stuff, it's virtually certain you will learn something new! - Recap by Vincent Treewell Outro Music is Haven by Divinity Destroyed Download

*Edit: I realized after review that in this episode I said, "National Security Administration" when referring to the NSA instead of the "National Security Agency" (that's what trying to talk while sorting through your notes will get you). Thank you everyone!  Today we talk about the NSA spying on an opposition journalist, vaccine authoritarianism, the fight against communism in Cuba, and the deeper themes behind the craziness in the housing market. Come join the conversation! Ep. 110 Show Notes:https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQcyAjjGvRemhfBvAlvhHv1bsuKxtfykhDrckoyhwC8djah4eo-0MOsPizG8cglgQ_txVuaomZ4fX8u/pubSubscribe to the email list to receive insider updates, show notes, and more:https://exceptional-producer-6026.ck.page/863a113776Donate to the show:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=CK7PXGDFC89TA&source=urlLeave a positive review for the show on Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/refining-politics-culture-w-michael-seifert/id1515214229For all other inquiries, please visit my website:http://www.refiningpoliticsandculture.comFollow me on Instagram:@realmichaelseifert

 On this week’s episode of 5-4, Peter (@The_Law_Boy), Rhiannon (@AywaRhiannon), and Michael (@_FleerUltra) discuss a 2013 case that tested the National Security Administration's ability to conduct surveillance on Americans without probable cause.

If humor can be a "Trojan horse;" the difference between legitimate art and propaganda; how the National Security Administration can help you learn chasidus; the connection between the Rashbi, the Ari Zal, the Baal Shem Tov, and Moshiach; Laffy Taffy jokes; and much, much more. Buckle up for this 43-minute whirlwind conversation of deep Torah […]

If humor can be a "Trojan horse;" the difference between legitimate art and propaganda; how the National Security Administration can help you learn chasidus; the connection between the Rashbi, the Ari Zal, the Baal Shem Tov, and Moshiach; Laffy Taffy jokes; and much, much more. Buckle up for this 43-minute whirlwind conversation of deep Torah ideas and humor that moves so quickly from subject to subject you’ll have to watch three times just to catch it all.

We explore the latest round of Windows vulnerabilities and Jim shares his journey adding OPNsense to his firewall family. Plus a look back at Apollo-era audio that's still relevant today with the surprising story of the Quindar tones.

In this podcast we're joined by NPR National Desk reporter Tom Bowman and Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab at New America, for an engaging discussion about the current state of journalism. Bowman's previous reporting at The Baltimore Sun on racial and gender discrimination at the National Security Administration led to a Pentagon investigation in 1994. Before joining New America, a non-partisan think tank, Schulte was an award-winning staff writer for The Washington Post, where she served for almost two decades. Schulte is also the acclaimed author of the New York Times best-selling book on time-management and time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time. You can find him on Twitter @TBowmanNPR. Listen to Tom's Q&A during his visit to the University of Oregon here: https://soundcloud.com/demystifying-media/26-demystifying-guest-lecture-tom-bowman Here are the show notes from today's podcast: 1:15 - Why and how did you both become journalists? (Tom) 2:38 - Why and how did you both become journalists? (Brigid) 7:39 - The journalism landscape has changed immeasurable during your careers; what have been the biggest and most profound changes you’ve experienced? 11:45 - Current state of journalism (general discussion) 14:52 - The blurring of lines between journalism and opinion 18:02 - How can journalism schools and other stakeholders address these issues? 28:18 - Journalistic adaptability: Tom and Brigid's experience changing businesses and mediums 34:29 - Tom and Brigid's personal and working dynamic (they're married!); how do their professional lives intersect and diverge? Read the transcript for this episode: https://www.scribd.com/document/463623611/HDM-Podcast-23-TomBowmanandBrigidSchulte

Technology plays an increasingly important role in all aspects of our lives today. The more entrenched it is in government systems, in our offices and in our home appliances the more vulnerable we are to cyber attacks. On this edition of Out to Lunch, Stephanie Riegel introduces two local experts on the subject of cyber security. One developing technology; the other trying to protect us from malware and hackers. Mo Vij is the founder and CEO of General Infomatics. It s a nearly 16 year old IT services company based in Baton Rouge that develops software to help clients in the defense sector, health care industry, business, law enforcement and more. General Infomatics recently unveiled a new product called Gismo that serves as a handheld communication device police officers can use in the field. In the non cyber world, Mo recently announced plans to develop a high tech office park at the corner of Bluebonnet and Highland Road that will have a Silicon Valley style, campus like atmosphere and hopefully attract more high tech tenants in the years to come. While Mo s company is making technology, John Zachary s firm is trying to guard users of technology from cyber attacks. John worked for clients like the Pentagon and the National Security Administration in Washington D.C. for several years before returning in 2016 to his native Baton Rouge and bringing his services here. While we may hear about high profile hacking incidents when Netflix or PayPal are the victims, John will tell you that local businesses and even individuals need to stay on their toes, too. Because we are all vulnerable. Photos at Mansurs on the Boulevard by Rick LeCompte. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1: John McCain’s new book reveals how he regrets selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008 …A caller comforts Pat about his impending kidney stent removal …West Virginia Senate candidate shoots to the top of the Republican primary polls after airing outlandish ad …Caller describes a slightly more cringe-worthy procedure to remove his stent …John Kerry, despite having no power, is attempting to negotiate with Iran on America’s behalf …Alyssa Milano organizes counter-protest at NRA Convention, but ends up being hypocritical by having armed bodyguards …Could the conversation on abortion change as quickly as the conversation about LGBTQ rights? …If Milano’s goons had laid a hand on any private citizens, would they have been charged with assault and battery? …Avengers: Infinity War continues on its box office rampage. Hour 2: Caller describes how she got through her stent removal with a bit of timely humor …Morningside Ministry of Branson, MO has all your survival needs, but you’ll really need to open up your wallet …Can we interest you in a bucket of freeze-dried pancakes for $70.00? …One caller resents Pat’s analysis of the film “Overboard”, another says that the 1970s called, and they want something from Pat …James Shaw, the hero of the Waffle House shooting, doesn’t seem to be pushing an agenda …Communities on the Big Island of Hawaii are being decimated by geysers of lava …Pat, Keith, and Jeffy all share their most infamous fiascoes involving cockroaches …Live horse racing can be both fun and rewarding – One woman turned $18.00 into $1.2 Million at the Kentucky Derby. Hour 3: Jeff Fisher takes over the program …The National Security Administration reports a massive number of monitored phone calls and text messages in 2017 …How automated will the future become? One projection shows 800 million workers being replaced by robots within just thirteen years …Jim Bakker maintains that government research has determined that the safest place to live in troubled times is Branson, MO …Cecile Richards had a great run at the helm of Planned Parenthood – Who will follow in the footsteps of a legend? …Jersey City, NJ is looking to move a memorial to the victims of the 1940 Katyn Massacre – Can there be a statue to honor anything anymore? …Ten astonishing facts you didn’t know about bees. Tune in to "Pat Gray Unleashed" weekdays from 12-3p.m. ET on TheBlaze TV! Twitter @PatUnleashed LISTEN https://omny.fm/shows/pat-gray http://www.theblaze.com/radio-shows/pat-gray-unleashed/ https://soundcloud.com/patgrayshow https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-blaze-radio-network/pat-gray https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pat-gray-unleashed/id1280961263?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  Chelsea Barabas: How to balance AI and criminal justice (Ep. 136) MIT Research Scientist Chelsea Barabas and Joe Miller discuss how to balance AI and criminal justice to affect better defendant outcomes. Bio Chelsea Barabas (@chels_bar) is a research scientist at MIT, where she examines the spread of algorithmic decision making tools in the US criminal justice system. Formerly, Chelsea was the Head of Social Innovation with the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative. She has worked on a wide range of issues related to the use of emerging technologies to serve the public good around the world. Chelsea’s graduate research at MIT was on understanding the U.S.’s ongoing struggle to cultivate and hire a diverse technical workforce, and she conducted her graduate thesis in partnership with Code2040. She attended Stanford as an undergraduate, where she earned a B.A. in Sociology.  Resources Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, Joichi Ito, Madars Virza, and Jonathan Zittrain. 2018. Interventions over Predictions: Reframing the Ethical Debate for Actuarial Risk Assessment. In Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) conference (FAT* 2018). ACM, New York, NY, USA. Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (2018) News Roundup T-Mobile and Sprint announce merger plans T-Mobile and Sprint have announced merger plans again. It’s a $27 billion deal that would include Softbank giving up control of Sprint.  The combined company would be called T-Mobile and, with 98 million subscribers, the combined company would become the second largest wireless carrier, behind Verizon’s 116 million. Brian Fung and Tony Romm report in the Washington Post. Comcast launches bidding war against Fox for Sky Comcast announced that it would seek to acquire European pay TV provider Sky for $31 billion. The Murdoch’s 21st Century  Fox already has a bid for Sky on the table, but it’s $15 billion lower than Comcast’s, even though Fox already has a 39% stake in Sky. 21st Century Fox had rejected a separate bid by Comcast to acquire Fox’s entertainment assets, which Disney is now planning to purchase for $52.4 billion, which was also lower than Comcast’s proposal. Shalani Ramachandran, Amol Sharma and David Benoit report in the Wall Street Journal. EU investigates Apple’s Shazam bid EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether Apple’s bid for music identification service Shazam is anticompetitive. Apple had announced back in December that it was looking to acquire Shazam for an undisclosed amount. The EU is concerned the acquisition could limit consumer choice. Foo Yun Chee has more at Reuters. Senate confirms Nakasone to Lead NSA/Cyber Command The Senate unanimously confirmed U.S. Army Command Chief Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone to serve as both the head of the National Security Administration and U.S. Cyber Command. He’ll replace Mike Rogers. Nakasone will also get a fourth star. SEC fines company formerly known as Yahoo! $35 million The Securities and Exchange Commission fined Altaba, the company that now owns Yahoo!’s remaining assets, over $35 million. The fine is for failing to disclose a 2014 data breach that compromised the data of over 500 million Yahoo! users. Jacob Katrenakes reports in the Verge. FTC warns app firms about collecting children’s data The Federal Trade Commission has warned app firms in China and Sweden about collecting the data of U.S. children. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act prohibits the collection of such data and applies to foreign companies. The China based- Gator Group and Sweden-based Tinitell, both sell smartwatches to children. In other news related to Children's privacy, YouTube has announced new parental controls for YouTube kids. Parents will now be able to limit recommendations and suggestions will now be made by humans. Did Diamond and Silk commit perjury? In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week, conservative African American internet personalities Diamond and Silk said under oath that President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign never paid them. But there’s a 2016 Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing showing that the campaign paid them $1,275 for “field consulting”. Harper Neidig reports in the Hill. CBC members to meet in Silicon Valley to discuss diversity The Congressional Black Caucus is sending the largest delegation of lawmakers it has ever sent to Silicon Valley to discuss diversity. Just 3% of Silicon Valley tech workers are black, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting study. Shirin Ghaffary reports in Recode. Facebook warns SEC about more data misuse In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Facebook indicated that additional reports of the misuse of user data are likely forthcoming. The social media giant said it is conducting a third-party audit which it anticipates will reveal additional improprieties. Google’s Sergey Brin warns about AI threat Finally, Google co-founder Sergey Brin warned in the company’s annual Founders’ Letter about the future of AI and the fact that it is already transforming everything from self-driving cars to planetary discovery. Brin said he is optimistic about Artificial Intelligence and said that Alphabet is giving serious consideration to the ways in which AI will affect employment, how developers can control for bias in their algorithms, and the potential for AI to “manipulate people.” James Vincent notes in the Verge that Brin’s letter does not discuss the dangers of using AI for military intelligence, although the company has said its technology would be used for “non-offensive purposes only”. Still, several employees at the company are urging Alphabet to withdraw from its plans to work with the Pentagon.

Application whitelisting has long been thought of as a good way of enhancing cybersecurity. But certifying and maintaining applications lists proved too labor intensive and expensive. Now the National Security Agency may have found a more efficient route to application whitelisting. Eric Chudow, senior mitigation expert for cybersecurity at NSA, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain.

Tom Kamber (@thomaskamber) is the founder and executive director of OATS, where he has helped over 20,000 senior citizens get online, built more than 30 free technology centers, created the seniorplanet.org digital community, and launched the Senior Planet Exploration Center—the country's first technology-themed community center for older adults. His work has been covered in major national media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, Univision, MSNBC, and the TODAY Show. Tom is active in shaping technology policy and serves on the City of New York's Broadband Task Force, and on the State of New York's Broadband Adoption Task Force. Tom teaches courses on social entrepreneurship and philanthropy at Columbia University and has published widely in academic journals on topics including housing policy, crime and geography, advertising strategy, broadband technology, and technology adoption by senior citizens. Prior to founding OATS, Tom worked as a tenant organizer working with low-income residents in Harlem and the South Bronx. He has a B.A. in Latin from Columbia College and a PhD in Political Science from the City University of New York. In this episode, we discussed: key challenges older adults face getting online. how OATS helps older adults use technology to stay engaged and enhance their overall quality of life. specific policy recommendations for ensuring older adults are both connected and actively using technology.  Resources   OATS Senior Planet This Chair Rocks by Ashton Applewhite SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard NEWS ROUNDUP Missy Ryan, Ellen Nakashima and Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post report that the Obama administration has announced sanctions against Russia for executing cyberattacks on American institutions, including the Democratic National Committee, and releasing sensitive material to the public, in an effort to sway the November presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. The sanctions include the shutting down of two Russian facilities in Maryland and on Long Island which U.S. officials believe were used to collect intelligence. President Obama also expelled 35 Russian agents believed to be involved in the hacks. The President also said the U.S. may undertake covert activity to undermine Russia. But the Kremlin has vigorously denied the hacks, with Russsian President Vladimir Putin calling President Obama's response "irresponsible diplomacy". Yet, Putin has said Russia will hold off on a tit-for-tat response and not expel U.S. agents working in Russia or close American facilities there, until they see how Trump will respond following the inauguration on January 20th. Camila Domonoske has the story for NPR. Here's the link to the DHS and FBI report on the Russian intrusion, which has been dubbed Grizzly Steppe. Andrew Kramer has a nice piece in the New York Times describing how Russians recruited hackers for its cyberwar against the United States.  -- Ellen Nakashima also reported in the Washington Post that President Obama has signed a bill that would work to split U.S. Cybercommand from the National Security Administration in order to promote administrative efficiency. But the split can't happen unless it is approved by the defense secretary and the chair of the Joint Chiefs of staff, which may or may not happen under the Trump administration.  -- House Speaker Paul Ryan wants to stop sit-ins by members of Congress on the House floor. Speaker Ryan introduced a rules package last week which would attempt to curtail live streaming on the house floor by imposing sanctions of $500 for the first livestreaming offense and $2,500 for each subsequent offense, with ethical citations also a possibility. Back in June, Democrats had live-streamed a sit-in on the House floor to protest Republicans' failure to introduce gun control legislation. The livestream was organized in response to the fact that Republican leaders had turned off tv cameras in the chamber, preventing the public from viewing the sit-in on C-Span.     

Entrepreneur Jay Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of Synack, describes how the idea of creating a cybersecurity service for enterprise businesses by crowdsourcing hackers went from sounding like a long shot to launching as a venture capital-backed startup. Kaplan, previously a senior analyst at the National Security Administration, talks about the virtues of government work and the nuances of “white hat” hacking.

Entrepreneur Jay Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of Synack, describes how the idea of creating a cybersecurity service for enterprise businesses by crowdsourcing hackers went from sounding like a long shot to launching as a venture capital-backed startup. Kaplan, previously a senior analyst at the National Security Administration, talks about the virtues of government work and the nuances of “white hat” hacking.

Entrepreneur Jay Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of Synack, describes how the idea of creating a cybersecurity service for enterprise businesses by crowdsourcing hackers went from sounding like a long shot to launching as a venture capital-backed startup. Kaplan, previously a senior analyst at the National Security Administration, talks about the virtues of government work and the nuances of “white hat” hacking.

Melinda Epler (@changecatalysts) is Founder and CEO of Change Catalyst, a certified B Corp whose mission is to empower diverse, inclusive and sustainable tech innovation through education, mentorship and funding. Change Catalyst won a Certified B Corporation "Best for the World” award for community impact in 2014 and “Best in the World” overall in 2015. Melinda has more than 20 years of experience elevating brands and developing business innovation strategies for social entrepreneurs, mature social enterprises, Fortune 500 companies and global NGOs. As Founder & CEO of Change Catalyst, Melinda empowers diverse, inclusive and sustainable tech innovation through events, education, mentorship and funding. Through Tech Inclusion, an initiative of Change Catalyst, she partners with the tech community to solve diversity and inclusion together. Her work spans the full tech ecosystem, from Education to Workplace, Entrepreneurship and Policy. Melinda speaks, mentors and writes about diversity and inclusion in tech, social entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurs and investing. She is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker – her film and television work includes projects that exposed the AIDS crisis in South Africa, explored women's rights in Turkey, and prepared communities for the effects of climate change. She has worked on several television shows, including NBC's The West Wing. In this episode, we discussed: building bridges toward inclusiveness in tech after a damaging and divisive presidential campaign season key areas the diversity and inclusion and policy communities should focus on in a Trump administration. Resources Insight Timer Headspace Tara Brach Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg NEWS ROUNDUP Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and members of the intelligence community want President Obama to fire National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers, according to Ellen Nakashima at The Washington Post. Clapper and Rogers cite numerous instances of security breaches under Rogers' watch, including one by Booz Allen Hamilton contractor Harold T. Martin III, who was arrested in August for the largest ever theft of classified government data. There was also another breach in 2015 allegedly carried out by an individual whose name has not been disclosed, but who has since been arrested. President-elect Trump is considering putting Rogers in charge of all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, and Congressional Republican leaders have come out in support of Rogers, including California Representative David Nunes who also serves on Trump's transition team, who praised Rogers in the Washington Post. Rodgers is also the head of U.S. Cyber Command. Ash Carter has not been impressed with Rogers' performance in that role, either, as the cyber command's operations in Syria and Iraq have been largely unsuccessful, according to Carter. Further annoying Carter and Clapper is the fact that Rogers met with Trump last week unbeknownst to the White House. Further complicating matters, Clapper and Carter are also looking to split Cyber Command from the National Security Administration, a move opposed by Senate Republicans including John McCain. Meanwhile, as Mallory Shelbourne at The Hill reports, at a news conference in Peru last week, President Obama called Rogers a "patriot". In separate comments, Obama told German newspaper Der Spiegel that he had no plans to pardon Edward Snowden. The president said Snowden would first need to appear before a court. -- Mark Jamison, a member of Trump's tech policy transition team, suggested in a blog post last week that maybe the FCC shouldn't exist. Jamison wrote, "Most of the original motivations for having the FCC have gone away." He also said there are few monopolies in telecom, an assertion with which FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has disagreed. Brian Fung has this story in the Washington Post. -- A new Stanford University report found that most students from Middle School to college are unable to tell the difference between sponsored content and real news. The study of 7,804 students found 82% could not tell what was sponsored and what was real. Seventy percent of middle schoolers also found no reason to distrust a finance article that was written by the CEO of a bank. Amar Toor has the story on The Verge. -- Downloads of the encrypted messaging app Signal have soared by 400% since Donald Trump's election, according to Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike. Governments have the ability to tap unencrypted text messages for intelligence gathering. Paresh Dave has the story in the LA Times. -- Following a successful effort to get the FCC to clear its entire November meeting agenda, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Senate Commerce Committee Chair John Thune have now asked Federal Trade Commission Chair Edith Ramirez and Consumer Product Safety Commission Chair Elliott Kaye not to move forward on any controversial regulations. Upton and Thune wrote that the American people decided to make a change on November 8th and that agencies should this refrain from passing new regulations. Trump, of course, lost the popular vote by over 2 million. -- Finally, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai issued a statement last week praising Trump's Department of Justice nominee Jeff Sessions. The Washington Post reports that Sessions is widely seen as a climate change skeptic and his entire career has been dogged by accusations that Sessions is a virulent racist, which cost him a federal judgeship back in '86. Sessions has been quoted as saying that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was "okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana." Pai is reportedly on the short list to become Trump's nominee to Chair the FCC.  

Panelists discuss how the roles and responsibilities related to U.S. cybersecurity are shared by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Defense and the private sector, and how each woman has become involved in this aspect of national security law. The speakers include M. Tia Johnson LL.M. '02, assistant secretary for legislative affairs at the Department of Homeland Security; Angeline Chen, vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer at Siemens Government Technologies Inc.; Lt. Comm. Elizabeth O'Connor, attorney at the Information Assurance-Cybersecurity Division, Office of General Counsel, National Security Administration; and Merritt Baer, senior cybersecurity counsel at the Department of Homeland Security. Professor John Norton Moore, director of the Center for National Security Law, moderates. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 29, 2016)

On this week's FAST FORWARD, Jo Ling Kent of the FOX Business Network hosts a special episode focusing on cyber security. Jo interviews three prominent military leaders, Former NSA Chief, General Keith Alexander, General Ray Odierno, Palo Alto CEO Mark McLaughlin, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson while at West Point Military College. This wide ranging discussion touches on very sensitive issues intersecting where both Homeland Security and the National Security Administration's interact with Silicon Valley CEOs. Plus, what social media platform was able to predict a slip in sales for a major fast food chain? Jo has all the details. Subscribe and get automatic downloads of this podcast on iTunes Join FOX Business Network's Jo Ling Kent with this edition of Fast Forward FAST FORWARD is a podcast on tech, innovation and media. Every week, FAST FORWARD, digs into today's stories with the most dynamic leaders and voices. Featuring the inventors, innovators and investors who shape the future while we wait patiently in the present, we leverage our Fox Business intel to explore what happened, why and what's coming next. And robots. Lots of robots. Follow Jo on Twitter @JoLingKent #FOXFastForward Click here for more “Fast Forward” with Jo Ling Kent

We've all been hearing about the troubles of the NSA as of late and it's been making us deeply concerned. Whether we believe the government is acting way too much like big brother or we worry that the technical contractors they hire have access to far too much information, it's a problem. To help sort it all out, Senator Adlai Stevenson III, who spearheaded the first Congressional study on terrorism, is joining us to share his thoughts. If you are concerned about where our country is going, you won't want to miss this one!