Fil-Am World Magazine 2nd Quarter Issue 2021

JUNE-AUGUST 2021 Vol. 2, Issue 2

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About Us Our company was established in San Antonio, Texas on March 23, 2010, founded by Romelette Metz. During the first 2 years, our main area of distribution in the U.S. were some cities in Texas, we sent copies to our readers in Washington, California and New York, and few places in Asia. Though our company is for profit entity, we are engaged in numerous nonprofit organizations and supported their cause.

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Inside An Evening to Meet and Greet Miss Universe Philippines 2020, Rabiya Mateo

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Speculations about Covid-19 And Its Vaccine Informal Future My Unlawful Arrest During the Martial Law

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A Journey To Build A Hospital National Fil-Am Leaders Join With Philippine Ambassador in Securing Vaccines For The Philippines Gaslighting The Masses Fast Track Vaccine For A Brand New World 3 Fil-Am World Magazine 2021 © Issue 2 Vol. 2

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An Evening to Meet and Greet Miss Universe Philippines 2020, Rabiya Mateo By: Romelette Dela Cerna June 11, 2021 — a glamorous Friday evening in Archer Hotel, Austin, Texas . This one of the exciting events I've ever been! The Filipino Americans across Texas gathered to meet our very own Miss Universe Philippines 2020, Rabiya Mateo, our contingent for Miss Universe this year (photo below).

As I arrived at the venue, I was greeted by friendly

Austin local Filipino Americans. They welcomed the special guests warmly and put the VIP golden bracelet. Then, I decided to go LIVE on Facebook for our Fil-Am World Magazine page to just share and show around the venue. And a glimpse of the event Then, I grabbed some foods and drinks. The buffet food was professionally prepared and the presentation was meticulously crafted . Foods

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looked appetizing and so I grabbed a plate.

I went inside the main venue to look for my seat. To my delight, I got one of the best spots! After I secured my seat, I quickly went to the bar, just located outside the main venue and at end of the hallway, and got myself a glass of champagne and…. a coke!

On this page: Fashion Designer Karel and his models.

While eating my foods and drinking my champagne, I looked around and saw many beautiful and familiar faces. The stage was simply arranged yet elegant. All seats were arranged in a way that every single guest could see Miss Rabiya Mateo closely.

The event started with a great rendition of Bayan Ko by 2 young and beautiful Fil-Ams. Followed by dazzling fashion shows. The fashion designers were Karel, Theresa Guck and Doris. They are all Filipinos!

Their designs were exquisite and jaw dropping. Wow! Such talents! And it truly made me very proud.

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One of the highlights of this evening was the 2-piece Bikini showcase designed by a Filipino American fashion designer based in Austin, Texas, Doris (Photo shown below). Her bikini designs were exquisite, meticulously crafted, unique and truly eyecatching. As I was watching these beautiful ladies with their beautiful bodies on these bikinis, I thought, where did my body like that went?

Miss Universe Philippines was formally introduced by Andre with a local Fil-Am singer serenading her and the crowd with Miss Universe Philippines 2020 pageant theme song, “Magandang Dilag.” The guests were anxious and excited to see and meet her in person. Every one had their cameras and phones ready to take pictures and videos as Rabiya walked across the runway with her dazzling smile. She was beautiful and elegant; a true Filipina beauty.

She humbly expressed her gratitude to all the attendees for the support and warm welcome. The night was ended with Rabiya’s humble expression of gratitude and picture taking.

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Fil-Am World Magazine publisher/owner, Miss Romelette Metz, pose with Miss Universe Philippines 2020, Rabiya Mateo.

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Speculations about Covid-19

And Its Vaccine By: Romelette Metz The information you are about to read in controversial speculations related to this article may not conform on your be- Covid-19 and its vaccine; liefs and principles. You are entitled to BILL GATES & DEPOPULATION have your own opinion and conclusion, Millions of people across the while I am just a messenger. globe accused Bill Gates to have engiSince Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, neered the Covid-19 pandemic as to decountless assumptions, theories and tell- liberately force the public to take injectale came out especially in the internet; tions containing dangerous substances, YouTube bloggers/channels, social memicrochips, mind-control, to induce dia postings, online articles… especially deadly illnesses and infertility and disthe conspiracy theorists. They were pas- guised as Covid-19 vaccine. sionate about “exposing” some “evil agen• AGENDA 2030 da” of the oligarchs. A lot of YouTube Allegedly, this is an initiative channels had their video/audio blogs taken down, or even worse, deactivated. launched by the United Nations on 2015; to depopulate the world by 95% by 2030.

The postings in social media were It’s anticipated that if population is not erased/censored, channels/bloggers controlled now, there will be 10 billion blocked, and websites wiped out. human species that will suffer in climate Now, let’s touch base some of the most 18 Fil-Am World Magazine 2021 © Issue 2 Vol. 2

change, hunger, extreme poverty, poor identification may soon be over? It’s likehealth condition, and biodiversity loss by ly that in the near future, we’ll be micro2030. chipped. A system or network can identify and manipulate our unique DNA and • NEW WORLD ORDER all our information will be their data.

Yes, rumor has it! This conPerhaps that’s the RnA vaccine is all spiracy theory has been going around for about and we may be all medically treatdecades. So what is it really? NWO is a ed based on our DNA profile. Sound savglobal governance through complex web vy? It’s actually mind-blowing! Isn’t it?! of government networks. This agenda has been carefully planned and Covid-19 Well, everything here might be so vague pandemic is assumed as one of the strat- since the information in this article is so little, “just a tip of an iceberg” so they egies made to implement the NWO. say. Some may say, this is taboo, ridicu• GLOBALIZATION AND MODERN lous, misguided, ignorant...blah.. blah..

TECHNOLOGY My advice is, have an open-mind and do Surely, you heard about the some research and start reading more.

5G network and the proposed “Smart City.” If you did not, well, I do not know Next issue, find out the details about the research and works of biopharmaceutical what planet you’ve been living all this time. Ever wonder that fingerprinting for companies.

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technologically induced extinction or that utopia awaits. Joy recalls a conversation with Ray KurInformal Future zweil that occurred in 1998 during which Kurzweil shared his prediction that humans will By: Robert Baker evolve into robots. This prediction alarmed Joy, prompting his thinking that such technology rePoliticians and so-called public health officials' gardless of its eventual application will cause a hysterical and panicked push to COVIDfateful redefinition of human beings. This technoproof society demonstrates their seeing the mass- logical pace continues. Thus, we continue our es as malleable, movable objects awaiting their analysis on how quickly robotics will render us as next deployment in the dystopia dubbed The New transitional primates whose existence sets the Normal. Will the masses become obsolete? The stage on which robotics could use what was useful question is pondered so much that it no longer in humans for the new conditions while discardsparks profound debates. This current ing the rest. This analysis remains crucial, but trend contrasts with the historical experiences other less glamorous phenomena lackwhere the masses were a necessity, albeit in the ing advanced technological trappings exist aleyes of Social Darwinists like John D. Rockefeller ready that deserve as much attention as necessary and a burdensome and inconvenient one. The to assess the utility of humans.

English philosopher Herbert Spencer provided Latest technologies bring out both the panglosthe academic rigor to render respectability to this sian and pessimistic impulses in many people. debasing of humanity. Thus, Rockefeller's preBoth types often see humans becoming more irferred model for organizing the economy and sorelevant. While technological advances may redeciety as survival of the fittest was in modern day fine or at least alter what being "human" means, parlance following the science. Many social consocial and political trends seem content to marditions today though show elites who can prosper ginalize many humans to a state of powerlessness without relying as much on the masses. Luddites and anonymity. In that context, humans are not two centuries ago could smash machines. But, defined; rather, they are just forgotten. Of course, machines are progressing at a rate and range of on an unrelated yet important note, the latter applications that they won't simply serve state wouldn't be the kind that allows them to esas extensions of human beings but will redefine cape the digital eyes of the NSA. Instead, this what constitutes them. anonymous state refers to many people existing Vast bodies of literature exist wherein auin the "informal economy" with less social safety thors predict post-human futures. This net protection. body often features technological applications initially serving humanity until its advances eclipse Economists and academics define the informal humanity. Bill Joy, co-founder and former Chief economy as economic activity which occurs outScientist of Sun Microsystems, putatively side of any legal framework and evades tracking whacked at this industry of futuristic speculaand monitoring by the host government. Because tion. "WIRED" magazine published Mr. Joy's ar- the informal workforce evades the formal structicle "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us." [1]. Yes tures of the "legal or legitimate" economy, it is Joy's article was published in 2000 but the audifficult to use a reliable method to calculate its thor's subject matter is still relevant today. size and scale.

We see the size of the informal econoHis well balanced article is worth reading because my decline as it further develops. The factors he asks critical questions while avoiding making causing economic development are a different isdeterministic claims that humanity either faces a sue. Many examples show what factors lay a solid 22 Fil-Am World Magazine 2021 © Issue 2 Vol. 2

foundation for creating economic development. tile industry in Germany is as high In that vein economic development has historias it is in the German steel mills. cally reduced informal employment while inBut wages in East Asia are very creasing average wages. These phenomena can low compared with ours. The garencourage people to claim a statistical justificament industries in France and Itation for belief that the U.S. provides the most ly, which make high fashions, will prosperity for the greater good. But, weaknesses survive. They are ingenious and in this edifice of prosperity begin to show as more creative and will survive. The GerAmericans live on the brink of "informalization." man textile industry is viable but More importantly, this increasing will vanish in ten or twelve "informalization" results less from technology's years." [2] deterministic rhythms rendering the workingFuture changes to the textile industry in Germaclass expendable and more from the elites' delib- ny showed Schmidt comprehended and accepted erate decisions. its "inevitable" hollowing out. From 1965 to 2006, the number of German clothing businesses All attempts to see whether technology or politideclined from 5,500 to 408. [3]. This decrease cal and social institutions or a combination of also caused a decline in the number of employees both serve as the primary catalysts informalizing in this industry from 400,000 to roughly 45,000. the masses can result in a glut of examples show- [4]. These reductions in numbers of businesses ing the primacy of each. Regardless of this glut, and employees show examples of capital gaining history shows strong examples that deliberate more power over labor. decisions made by political and social institutions pushed the masses further into informalization. German wages have earned a declining share of One notable example is the G-7 meeting that oc- national income relative to capital. Wages and curred on November 15-17, 1975 at Rambouillet, salaries accounted for 71% of national income in France during which Chancellor Helmut Schmidt 1991 and then fell to 64.8% in 2007. [5]. This indiscussed deindustrialization: crease in capital accumulation has increased in"Harold [Wilson, of the UK], you talked of viable industries, and indicated that this excluded lame ducks. You referred to textiles as an example. I am a close friend of the chairman of the textile workers union in Germany. It is a union of a shrinking industry. I would hope that this would not be repeated outside this room. Given the high level of wages in Europe, I cannot help but believe that in the long run textile industries here will have to vanish. We cannot ward off cheaper competition from outside. We will eventually need some hothouse or botanical garden for this industry. It is a pity because it is viable: capital invested in a job in the tex-

come inequality [6]. Do these trends show that Helmut Schmidt's comments demonstrate a conscious agenda to weaken the working classes? Or did they emerge from the results of nameless, faceless natural laws? Regardless of the causation, human masses experience increased marginalization around the world. Neither Third world nor developed nations have avoided this increase in economic stratification.

Other examples show us that such a strong momentum pushes marginalization that it is, paradoxically, a centrifugal force touching larger swaths of the masses. An overall macroeconomic trend and a specific event show that the marginalizing of the masses continues.

The opening of the world to "capitalism" during the post-cold war era ignited a process cautiously deemed "a race to the bottom" a la maquiladoras,

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of the grid? This problem results ultimately from multiple causes one of which is structural unemployment or non-employment.

Shenzen, Bangladeshi garment factories, etc. Meanwhile, America's political economy shows the world how the most developed nation helps lead a race to increasing marginalization.

During April and May 2014 the Detroit's water and sewage department began shutting off water for over residents who are delinquent on their bills. The shut offs reached 7,200 homes during June 2014. [6]. A long term solution to this problem is still pending. Is this a glimpse into the future? Impoverished citizens face being thrown off

The rate of persons during 2013 in the U.S. considered "employed" totaled 58.6%, which is much less than the historic high of 64.4% reached in 2000 [7]. This drop bodes poorly for the working classes in the U.S. because this decrease started before the housing-bust-induced meltdown beginning in 2007-08 and has since not improved. This trend of decreasing the total employment rate is inversely proportional to revenue growth in business-to-consumer and business-to-business data [8]. Revenues of the former increased from "$1.8 billion in 1997 to $70 billion in 2002 [9]. Also, business to business "had similarly smooth growth from $56 billion in 1999 to $482 billion" [10]. And, "In 2004 it is approaching $1 trillion" [11]. This trend was observed 10 years ago but shows that a dynamic and rapidly growing sector diverges from the overall employment rate in the U.S.; and, equally important, occurred while income and wealth inequality increase. This trend so far appears to be forging a new paradigm in economics and history which includes rendering obsolete the economic maxim that increased output leads to increasing wages.

The Great Recession that began in 2008 does not explain the repeal of the economic "law" that stated increased output caused wage increases. For example, "Between 1997 and 2005, manufacturing output increased by 60% in the United States while 3.9 million manufacturing jobs were eliminated during roughly the same period, between

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2000 and 2008"[12]. Moreover, capital inputs continue to increase productivity, marginalizing workers:"By 2007 manufacturers were using more than six times as much equipmentcomputer and software-as they did 20 years earlier while doubling the amount of capital used per hour of employee work" [13]. Marginalization of labor preceded, coincided, and continues before, during, after, respectively, the Great Recession.

Is the world moving toward a state where first and third world nations are ceasing to exist? Rather than our identifying a nation as "developed" or first world or third world, the globe will consist of land masses with pockets of billionaire elitists and other sprawling areas resembling squatters' villages?

Economic trends show marginalizing of the masses sweeping the developed world; meanwhile, Ray Kurzweil, in particular, expresses confidence that technological advances will "keep us alive long enough to live forever." Does the latter scenario offer salvation from the masses afflicted by the former scenario? Kurzweil and Bill Gates discuss the possibility of a new God emerging from a post-biological reality created by humans merging with technology: Bill: We need to get away from the ornate and strange stories in contemporary religions and concentrate on some simple messages. We need a charismatic leader for this new religion.

Ray: A charismatic leader is part of the old model. That's something we want to get away from.

Bill: Okay, a charismatic computer, then.

Ray: How about a charismatic operating system?

Ray: Not yet, but there will be. Once we saturate the matter and energy in the universe with intelligence, it will "wake up," be conscious, and sublimely intelligent.

That's about as close to God as I can imagine.

Bill: That's going to be silicon intelligence, not biological intelligence.

Ray: Well, yes, we're going to transcend biological intelligence.

We'll merge with it first, but ultimately the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

By the way, it's not likely to be silicon, but something like carbon nanotubes.

Bill: Yes, I understand-I'm just referring to that as silicon intelligence since people understand what that means. But I don't think that's going to be conscious in the human sense.

Ray: Why not? If we emulate in as detailed a manner as necessary everything going on in the human brain and body and instantiate these processes in another substrate, and then of course expand it greatly, why wouldn't it be conscious?

Bill: Oh, it will be conscious. I just think it will be a different type of consciousness. [14].

So if we live long enough, we can download an app exposing us to a new consciousness. Critical discussions about the future of subjects of God and Consciousness must occur within the most robust dialogue. Perhaps Gates' fantasy of a Bill: Ha, we've already got that. So post-human Consciousness will exist in a social order more tolerant of his late friend Jeffery Epis there a God in this religion? stein? Yes, that is an ad hominem insult and I 25 Fil-Am World Magazine 2021 © Issue 2 Vol. 2

don't care.

of fire face death the worst of all--the face of betrayal

No fail-safe algorithm can explain why such optimism is warranted when we as humans fail to allocate our resources more humanely to offset this and only our dreams have not been marginalizing of the masses. Thus, if we allow humiliated [15]. masses to be marginalized, should we take a leap of faith into a world imagined by Gates and KurPolish workers prevailing over the Soviets zweil? may evoke a pedestrian image compared to the transcendent hype of humanity evolving into the Before we leap into a world wherein we as huSingular state of life prolonged indefinitely. Still mans overthrow limits imposed upon us by bio- Lech Walsea deserves our remembrance. I prefer logical and physical laws, we should indulge the one Lech Walsea and a Solidarity Movement of sentimental practice of using poetry to keep lan- whom all endured humiliation to save their guage alive while it remains a unique faculty of us "dreams" compared to the unforeseen consciousness emerging from the Singularity. humans. Many examples recorded across time and space show poetry keeping language alive.

So.....Solidarity or Singularity? Or will there be Zbigniew Herbert tested the power of the Word something in between? While you ponder such to withstand the Soviet's imposing of martial law questions now, don't concede your dreams to on many Polish workers for their forming their those who will use every rhetorical, physical, poSolidarity Movement: litical, and social means to limit and criminalize

they-western sympathizers of the Polish workers-have not lived through a siege long as an eternity they who are touched by misfortune are always alone defenders of the Dalai Lama the Kurds and the Afghans

dissent.

now as I write these words those who favor appeasement have acquired an advantage over the party of the staunch an ordinary mood swing the stakes are still being weighed

[3]. "The situation of the textile and clothing industry in Germany." Leonardo-da-Vinci Project.

Agreement n [I/06/B/F/PP-154073] Phase II. Katholische Univeristat. Eichstatt Ingolstadt.

Fashion Net. p.16. http://portale.parma.it/ fashion-net/allegato.asp?ID=458192

[1.] Joy, Bill. "Why the future doesn't need us" WIRED. Issue 8.04. April 2000. http:// archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html [2]. Prashad, Vijay. The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. Verso. London.

2012. Kindle version. Locations 826-831 of 7808.

[4]. Ibid. cemeteries are growing the number of defenders shrinking but the defense continues and it will continue to the end

[5.] Hall, John and Udo Ludwig. "NeoLiberalism, the Changing German Labor Market, an Income Distribution: an Institutionalist and Post-Keynesian Analysis." John Hall Publications. JEL Classification Codes: B52, B59, and the City falls and one man sur- E65. http://johnhallpublications.com/ publications/neo-liberalism-the-changingvives german-labor-market-and-income-distributionhe will carry the City inside him on an-institutionalist-and-post-keynesian-analysis/ the paths of exile *****Of course technological innovations have he will be the City resulted in more productivity while devaluing human labor in this industry. Wages account for a we look into hunger's face the face smaller % of national income so it seems workers 26 Fil-Am World Magazine 2021 © Issue 2 Vol. 2

haven't simply shifted to higher paying industries.

[6]. Thurman, Scott. "Detroit water shutoff controversy igniting nationwide debate." The Associated Press, ABC 7 News. July 31, 2014. http:// www.wjla.com/articles/2014/07/detroit-watershutoff-controversy-igniting-nationwide-debate105641.html ***The number of persons whose water was shut off varies according to the source viewed. Numbers range from a few thousand to over 100,000.

The latest news on the water shut offs in Detroit is available at the website of the Detroit Water Brigage http://detroitwaterbrigade.org/ [7]. "Employment rate in the United States from 1990 to 2013." statista The Statistics Portal. http://www.statista.com/statistics/192398/ employment-rate-in-the-us-since-1990/ an "employed" person in this statistic meets the following criteria: persons who did any work for pay or profit during the survey reference week; persons who did at least 15 hours of unpaid work in a family-operated enterprise; and persons who were temporarily absent from their regular jobs because of illness, vacation, bad weather, industrial dispute, or various personal reasons.

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[8]. Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Penguin Books. 2005. Kindle Edition. Location 1737-38.

[9]. Ibid.

[10]. Ibid.

[11]. Ibid.

[12]. Rifkin, Jeremy. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, And The Eclipse Of Capitalism. Palgrave Macmillan. New York. 2014. page 122 of 356.

[13]. Ibid.

[14]. Ibid. Location 7138-7158.

[15]. Herbert, Zbignew. The Collected Poems 1956-1998. CCCO. 2007. 416-18.

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ed and detained by the central headquarters of the Philippine Constabulary in Manila. I was further inMy Unlawful Arrest and Imprisonment in formed that the Davao City Constabulary had no powthe Philippines er or jurisdiction over my case. I was only to be imprisoned and transferred to Manila as soon as possible.

Dante P. Escalante, MD I was told that there were hundreds of other national Many Filipinos in the U.S. were not yet detainees who were likewise to be transferred to the born in the 1970-s when President Ferdinand Marcos Manila headquarters. declared during his term of office, martial law. This The reasons for my arrest were stated declaration abolished many laws previously lawfully by the arresting officer. There were no lawful reasons enacted. Many organizations like the Kabataang for the arrest and what was being blamed on me by the Makabayan (Nationalist Youth) (K.M.) that I belonged to were abolished and declared to be a threat to national headquarters were well known to my friends and sympathizers. These reasons included the followthe peace and order in the Philippine Republic. My ing: organization was wrongly accused as a communist group that was a threat to the Philippine democracy.

This accusation was totally wrong. The Kabataang Makabayan was started at the University of the Philippines campus and soon spread to other universities and provinces.

My Arrest and Detention This occurred in early 1972. My medical clinic was the Davao Doctors’ Hospital. A highranking constabulary officer and some soldiers barged into my clinic and said that I was ordered to be arrest-

I was recently elected national vice-chairman of the Kabataang Makabayan, much hated by Pres. Marcos because of many rallies and newspaper comments quite critical of the policies of the current administration.

For instance, we sympathized very much with the political and economic status of thousands of tenants and their families in the rice fields of Central Luzon and in the sugar fields of Negros Island. The land areas belonged to wealthy owners who were known hacienderos.

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The poor tenants and their families forever took care of planting and harvesting rice and sugar cane for many years. The K.M. felt that there had to be a better deal between the landowners and the tenants.

Our organization felt that because the Philippines gained independence in 1946, we needed national policies that favored our future. For instance, we proposed that we have diplomatic and commercial relations with certain communist nations such as the USSR and China. We were wrongly branded as a communist organization. Little did many Filipinos know that even our powerful ally and dominant nation, the United States prior to our independence in 1946, had diplomatic and commercial relations with stable governments such as China and the USSR for improving our economy. Outstanding nationalists such as the great Sen. Claro M. Recto, one of our greatest senators, was all for it.

It was also suggested by many nationalist organizations that U.S. military bases such as Clark Airforce and Subic Naval Base be under control of Filipinos.

This is why we have a big number of Kapampangans; who are wives, children and relatives of enlisted men at Clark Airbase, who have been transferred to bases in San Antonio after closure of Clark Airforce base.

The base was also severely damaged later by a nearby volcanic eruption.

Many businesses and company owners disliked the groups such as the K.M. who were labor sympathizers. Another issue against me occurred in Dumaguete City, a year before I moved to Davao. I then worked for Silliman University Hospital. One evening as I went to a movie house, I noticed labor pickers opposing the purchase of movie tickets. The labor group in their pickets. This became a big issue because many movie goers and students did was that the president of Silliman University at that time was Dr. Cicero Calderon, a former labor leader. I helped organize a Kabataang Makabayan chapter at Silliman University. This was another issue against me.

My detention in Davao before I was taken by plane to Camp Aguinaldo in Manila lasted 3 months.

The most difficult aspect was on my family. My older daughter was just a toddler and our son was just born.

My wife had to help me with my needs such as food and my personal supplies which were not provided at the prison location. My wife did a very difficult job caring for 2 children, herself, me and a sister in-law.

Our home was a rented house.

After 3 months in Davao, I was taken by a guard to Camp Aguinaldo in Manila. It was through a regular PAL plane. Because I was classified as a national detainee, I had to be thoroughly investigated and interviewed at Camp Aguinaldo. Some of my companions in detention were members of the communist party in the Philippines. A couple of acquaintances managed to leave the Philippines before their arrest. They were accepted as political activists threatened with arrest in the Philippines. A country like The Netherlands and Switzerland accepted them.

My Investigation at Camp Aguinaldo My stay at Camp Aguinaldo was about 3 weeks. The highest-ranking officer who interviewed me was a colonel, a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, and a resident of Albay. He gave me a very pleasant introduction saying that he assumed that I was a decent detainee. He said that my mother Felisa Escalante, was his Biology teacher in high school in Albay and that he had the highest regard for her biology knowledge and her student fairness as a teacher. To my sense of appreciation, this officer brought me before Gen. Fidel Ramos after about 3 weeks as a detainee in Camp Aguinaldo. Gen. Ramos who later was elected president of the Philippines, gave me the most pleasant orders. He said that I will be released soon and that I could return to my practice of medicine in Davao. No charges are to be filed against me because I did not violate any laws.

Post Imprisonment Pleasant Occurrences My acquaintance with my guards and officers during detention improved my practice of medicine upon release. There were a few guards Continue on page 9

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speak to them in Tausog, the Muslim dialect. as the president of the Davao Medical Society Their families and Sulu visitors in Davao beand as the Outstanding Physician awardee after came my patients. We stayed 4 years in Sulu martial law. where I graduated from high school. My father Our church, the United Church of Christ in Davao was the superintendent of schools there at that City, shortly elected me as chair of the Board time. of Elders. My wife and I were also members of An occasional constabulary soldier knowing that I the church choir. was a physician while detained, requested me The Davao Doctors Hospital chose me to be head to write a prescription for sexually transmitted of the Department of Medicine as well as illness like gonorrhea. Because of the embarChief of Clinics. rassing effect a disease like this would have on Despite my suffering as a prisoner durtheir record, they would rather not go to the ing martial law, our Lord God helped strengthen my constabulary clinic in town. family and myself in the medical, social and religious My co-physicians in Davao did not consider me a fields. culprit or a violator of the law when I was arrested. Instead, they admired the sacrifice I experienced in the process of opposing the anti***** democratic effects of martial law. I was elected

Dr. Dante Escalante, MD, IM is a well-respected Filipino-American Internal Medicine Specialist in San Antonio, TX . He has over 60 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from University Of The Philippines Manila, College Of Medicine medical school in 1960.

His decades of medical missions earned him the title as “Doctor of the Poor.”

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“Different compounds in garlic are thought to reduce the risk for cardiovascular diseases, have anti-tumor and antimicrobial effects, and show benefit on high blood glucose concentration.”[1] Nowadays, there are people who use garlic as part of their healthy routine and dietary supplement. In many recent studies, garlic is widely recognized to prevent cardiovascular diseases. There are countless articles support on the claim about the health benefits and medicinal uses of garlic such as official government website of the United States National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, it clearly stated;

Garlic: One of the Most Valuable Plants in the World By: Romelette Dela Cerna In many centuries, our ancestors have used herbs and plants to prevent and treat illnesses. Mind you, pharmaceutical drugs did not exist in those old days.

They solely relied on what Mother Nature provides. Garlic was one of the most popular herbs used for treatment and cure for certain diseases. In many cultures, garlic has been used and recognized for prevention and treatment of different diseases. It was in fact widely use for medicinal purposes and health benefits;

“The wealth of scientific literature supports the proposal that garlic consumption have significant effects on lowering blood pressure, prevention of atherosclerosis, reduction of serum cholesterol and triglyceride, inhibition of platelet aggregation, and increasing fibrinolytic activity. [2] In your spare time, try to do a research about garlic and you’ll find out that it’s not just an ingredient to better taste the food. It has been used as medicinal plant for alternative treatments; Possibly Effective for: Hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis). As people age, their arteries tend to

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lose their ability to stretch (HDL, "good" cholesterol) or and flex. Garlic seems to relower levels of other blood duce this effect. Taking a fats called triglycerides. specific garlic powder supHigh blood pressure. Taking plement (Allicor, INATgarlic by mouth seems to reFarma) twice daily for 24 duce systolic blood pressure months seems to reduce (the top number) by about 7how much hardening of the 9 mmHg and diastolic blood arteries progresses. Higher pressure (the bottom numdoses of this product seem ber) by about 4-6 mmHg in to provide more benefits in people with high blood preswomen than men when taksure. en over a four-year period.

Research with other prodBuild up of fat in the liver in ucts containing garlic, alone or along with other ingredipeople who drink little or no alents (Kyolic Reserve, Kyolic, cohol (nonalcoholic fatty liver Total Heart Health, Formula disease or NAFLD). Taking gar108, Wakunaga), have also lic powder seems to help to imshown benefits. prove liver health in people with Diabetes. Garlic seems to modestly reduce pre-meal blood NAFLD. People who eat more sugar levels in people with garlic also seem to be less likeor without diabetes. It seems ly to be diagnosed with NAFLD. to work best in people with [3] diabetes, especially if it is taken for at least 3 months.

It's unclear if garlic reduces post-meal blood sugar levels [1] Bayan L, Koulivand PH, Gorji A. Garlic: a review of potential therapeutic efor HbA1c levels. fects. Avicenna J Phytomed. 2014 Jan;4 High levels of cholesterol or oth- (1):1-14. PMID: 25050296; PMCID: er fats (lipids) in the blood PMC4103721. Retrieved 10 June 2021 (hyperlipidemia). While not all research agrees, the most https:// reliable evidence shows that pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25050296/ taking garlic may reduce total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL, [2] Ibid "bad" cholesterol) in people with high cholesterol levels.

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bed nonprofit tertiary general hospital, cancer center, and behavioral unit. o MISSION: Serving our Lord Jesus Christ by serving every patient achieve health and wellness for life. o VISION : Demonstrate God’s love for all by providing compassionate, quality, and affordable health care. o CORE VALUES: Love, Integrity, Faith, Excellence, Service

A Journey to Build A Hospital: An Interview with Ms. Cyd Borromeo Who made the decision in building a hospital? o God’s commission. In November 2012 while I was driving to work to USAA I passed by North Central Baptist Hospital. The Lord God Almighty said, “Build Me a hospital in the Philippines.” Tell My people that I am the Lord God The Healer.”

Why build a hospital and who benefits it? o We build a hospital to be obedient to God’s calling. He said, “Tell My people that I am the Lord God who Heals them.” o The people of the Philippines especially the Mindanao island will benefit from the hospital. The Philippines is composed on 7,100 plus islands. The rural areas and poor provinces do not have easy access (car, boat, or airplane) to the metropolitan cities of Manila or Cebu for treatment. In addition, it will be added costs to the patient and their families.

Can you describe about your proposed hospital and help us visualize it? o Mizmor Kaf Gimmel Hospital (Hebrew for Psalm 23 Good Shepherd) is 162-

o Services offered: Pastoral care, Emergency; Outpatient; Dialysis; General & Internal Medicine; Surgical & Anesthesiology; Labor, Delivery, Obstetrics & Gynecology; NICU; ICU; Pediatrics; Rehabilitation; Laboratory, Diagnostics (e.g., MRI, CT Scan, etc.); Pharmacy; Oncology, Cardiovascular Care; Stroke Care; Respiratory/Pulmonary; Digestive Health, and Behavioral Unit.

Can you tell us the approximate budget to build the hospital? o $100 million USD to include the hospital building, land improvements, equipment, furnitures, fixtures, and medical equipment.

How long since you started the campaign or mission to build this hospital? o Since 2019 here in the USA. Our fundraising arm here in the USA is Only Jesus Medical Mission. Our project is to help build Mizmor Kaf Gimmel Hospital in Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental, Northern Mindanao, Philippines.

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As of today, how much have you raised for this mission? o $16,656.04 Cash and $$13,001.73 Who are helping you to raise funds? o Only Jesus Medical Mission is nonprofit with volunteers helping achieve the mission.

o Worst: 1) slow pace due to land use reclassification with the Department of Agriculture which started in 2015 and just finished last February 2021.

Can you tell our viewers how and where they can send their generous donations?

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www.onlyJesusMedicalmission.org

o OJMM Mission: To assist hospitals, clinics, and medical facilities and medical missions.

Are you affiliated with other non-profit organizations and or church groups for this project (Name if any)? o Not yet.

Does the organization view healthcare as a ministry itself, or do they view it as a platform for evangelism? o Healthcare is viewed as a ministry itself and a platform for evangelism that the Lord God is our Healer.

Is there spiritual and clinical mentorship available, promoted and or required?

How can I pray for you? o Pray that the Lord God touch many people to financially support the building of Mizmor Kaf Gimmel Hospital in the Philippines for the Lord.

o The Mizmor Kaf Gimmel Hospital will be a teaching hospital. When it opens it will have both spiritual and clinical mentorship available.

Misconceptions you had to be overcome. o People will not believe in the vision. o No volunteer to help the work to be done.

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fied public account and external auditor for SyCip, Gorres, Velayo and Company performing financial, operational, and information systems audit with multinational companies in Manila, Philippines and Seoul, South Korea. Her last work experience was an internal auditor for United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a multi-billion-dollar financial services company in San Antonio, Texas, USA for over sixteen years from 1998 to 2015.

Cyd was a member and earned certifications from several professional organizations such as the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE), and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). She rendered volunteer services serving as officer, board member, and president of the San Antonio IIA from 2008 to 2014. She is also a lifetime Ms. Cyd Borromeo is the Chief of Hospital/ member of the Organization of Filipinos in Texas President/CEO of Mizmor Kaf Gimmel Hospital (OFT) and served in different volunteer positions in(MKGH) in Oroquieta City, Philippines. She is responsible for building and developing the hospital ac- cluding serving as the president from 2013 to 2016. She was also active in serving the churches in Texas such cording to the Lord God the Healer’s commission to build a hospital in the Philippines. She leads the Board as Shoreline City Church, Cornerstone Church, and and a team of professionals to make God’s vision a re- Harvest City Church. ality from the planning, design, and construction of AWARDS: this beautiful healing architecture, intelligent, green, • The Texas Governor Greg Abbott commissioned and state-of-the art hospital.

Ms. Cyd Therese Acosta Borromeo the Honorary YelAs a top administrator, Ms. Cyd is responsible for de- low Rose of Texas on July 19, 2018 through the 802 veloping a hospital that works efficiently by finding a 2nd Security Forces Squadron, Lackland Air Force balance in managing day-to-day operations while Base in San Antonio, Texas. This honorary award recleading strategic development initiatives required to ognizes Texas women who have gone beyond measure achieve its mission and long-term success. in their communities and workplace.

Ms. Cyd is also the President of Only Jesus Medical • Delta Mu Delta, International Honor Society in Mission. This nonprofit organization was founded in Business Administration, High scholastic attainment, Texas in May 2016 to assist hospitals, clinics, and 2006. medical facilities, and medical missions. Its main project is to help build Mizmor Kaf Gimmel Hospital in EDUCATION: the Philippines.

• Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU), San AntoMs.Cyd has over thirty years of business, operational, nio, Texas – Master of Business Administration, Manfinancial, accounting, information systems, and audit agement; May 2007. experience in the Philippines, South Korea, Germany, • University of San Carlos (USC), Cebu City, Philipand the United States of America (USA). After college pines – Bachelor of Science in Commerce Major in Acgraduation, Ms. Cyd worked for six years as a certicounting, Cum Laude, March 1985.

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National Fil-Am Leaders Join With Philippine Ambassador in Securing Vaccines For The Philippines By: Gus Mercado Following a full-house Zoom meeting on late April 2021 with Philippine Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez who gave a briefing on the dire situation in the Philippines regarding the surging COVID-19 and lack of vaccines, about 300 national Fil-Am leaders led

by Fil-Am healthcare groups prepared a joint petition to President Joe Biden seeking help. The petition letter asked the President and his White House officials to help expedite the release of 13 million doses of Moderna vaccines which were purchased by the Philippine government and are scheduled sometime July 2021. The petition was sent to USAID Administrator Gloria Steele, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and each state’s two senators. They were also asking the US Congress to donate or loan some 3 million excess vaccines to the Philippines, as it did earlier with Mexico and Canada.

The nation of 110 million Filipinos is experiencing a surge of cases of COVID-19, with over 150,000 active cases and close to 16,000 deaths so far. Every day, close to 15,000 cases are diagnosed and more than 100 die. Hospitals are close to full capacity.

Only 0.05% of the adult population has been immunized, mostly with the lowefficacy Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines.

According to the petition letter, “regrettably, the delay will cause the loss of many lives which can be prevented by an immediate mass inoculation of the purchased vaccines.”

Shedding partisan politics, the Fil-Am national leaders are

banding together to help address the crisis in their native homeland. The prime movers of the non-political humanitarian initiative include the US Medicare in the Philippines Movement, the Philippine Humanitarian Coalition, the Philippine Medical Association of Metro Wash DC, the Philippine Nurses Association (PNAA), the National Federation of Filipino-American Associations (NAFFAA), the U.S. Filipinos for Good Governance, the UP Medical Sociaty, Migrant Heritage Commission, Ilocano Society of America, UST Alumni Assn, Association of Filipino Accountants, Mabuhay Inc., Assn of Philippine Physicians in America, Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO), Phil. Professionals Assn of Indiana, Fil-Am Human Rights Alliance, Philippine American Chamber of Commerce and PACC Texas Foundation, Filipino Leaders Coalition of North Texas (FILCON), the Coalition of Filipino-American Chambers of Commerce (COFACC), and the UP Alumni Association, among others. There are plans to raise funds to purchase more vaccines for the Philippines.

They said they wished to underscore to the Biden administration the long-standing relationship between the United States and Philippines being “a loyal partner and national security ally” for more than a century. ************

(Mr. Gus Mercado is a Filipino Businessman and Civic leader based in Dallas, Texas. He is a Republican who votes Independent in presidential elections. In addition to character, his litmus test for presidential candidates is who will best serve the interests of Filipinos in America, and the Philippines. He served as State Chair of "Fil-Ams for Biden-Harris" and the silent but large national "Republicans Against Trump" movements).

He is a recipient of the Presidential Awards for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas in 2014.

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Gaslighting The Masses By: Robert Baker CDC Guidelines recommend: "fill in the blank with any combination of vague statements." Their "guidelines" provide the impetus for the media, politicians', and employers' chronic COVID hysteria. CDC's vaguely worded guidelines reveal their blithely ignoring the implications of data they cite on their website. Meanwhile, too many fail to scrutinize the underlying basis of CDC guidelines for combating COVID. We hover in silence awaiting to be jabbinated. I refuse to seek false senses of security in the chemical cocktails injected into our bloodstreams manufactured by by Big Pharma who under U.S. law are subject to virtually no liability for any adverse reactions. Big Pharma's and their shills posing as public health experts deserve scrutiny. Most important the COVID narrative is a relentless campaign of gaslighting the masses.

Whenever the media shares "good news" with us walking pathogens the story usually includes a constant refrain: Big Pharma reports their vaccines are highly "effective." Of course in the media echo chamber good news is contingent upon the developing and jabbing of vaccines. The media invokes the FDA somewhere in the headline to create an impression that an independent body vouches for the vaccines' safety and efficacy. Of course the FDA does not certify or guarantee anything except their authorizing (though not approving) the COVID vaccines create windfall profits for Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson (J&J). Remember our measuring something such as effectiveness does not occur in a vacuum. So against what are these vaccines so effective?

The Centers for Disease (CDC) control cited the efficacy of Moderna's Covid vaccine:

The Phase III randomized controlled trial accrued the number of cases needed to meet the primary endpoint of vaccine efficacy against symptomatic COVID19 and the secondary endpoint of vaccine efficacy against severe COVID-19, based on a protocol definition that did not require hospitalization. [1]

And,

Since robust direct evidence is not expected from early results

from Phase III studies, vaccine efficacy in preventing hospitalizations due to COVID-19 and deaths may also be inferred from observed efficacy against symptomatic COVID19. Preliminary data from one study suggested possible shortterm efficacy against asymptomatic SARSCoV-2 infection after one vaccine dose, but no data were available to assess long-term efficacy or efficacy after two-dose vaccination series completion. [2] The study of this vaccine cites it is effective in reducing COVID symptoms..The emphasis on symptoms is revealing.....There is a difference between symptoms and the virus. How can we infer efficacy against asymptomatic infection if the vaccine's is effective against symptomatic infection? Again, their stating efficacy against symptoms does not suggest efficacy against viral infections.

The CDC published the following about the efficacy of Johnson and Johnson's Janssen COVID: The body of evidence for the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine was primarily informed by one international Phase III clinical trial initiated in September 2020 that enrolled approximately 40,000 participants aged 18–100 years (median age = 52 years), using two coprimary endpoints: prevention of symptomatic, laboratory-confirmed¶ COVID-19 among persons without evidence of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection** occurring 1) ≥14 days and 2) ≥28 days after vaccination (5).

Interim findings from this clinical trial indicate that the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine efficacy against symptomatic, laboratory -confirmed COVID-19 was 66.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 59.9%–71.8%) ≥14 days after vaccination and 65.5%

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(95% CI = 57.2%–72.4%) ≥28 days after vaccination. [3] Despite all the media's gleeful claims of this vaccine's efficacy and the medley of polysyllabic, clinical words cited above, the efficacy is inferred from symptoms.

Now look at the CDC's summary of the Pfizer vaccine efficacy. You will see the same refrain: The body of evidence for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was primarily informed by one large, randomized, doubleblind, placebo-controlled Phase II/III clinical trial that enrolled >43,000 participants (median age = 52 years, range = 16–91 years) (5,6). Interim findings from this clinical trial, using data from participants with a median of 2 months of follow-up, indicate that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was 95.0% effective (95% confidence interval = 90.3%–97.6%) in preventing symptomatic laboratoryconfirmed COVID-19 in persons without evidence of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. [4] The study of this vaccine also cites efficacy in regard to "symptomatic, lab confirmed COVID 19." the CDC adds Pfizer's vaccine to the chorus of..."symptomatic"..So if persons had no prior infection and their subsequently taking Pfizer's cocktail prevented symptomatic COVID, then how do you determine if the vaccine actually worked? In that case you had no prior infection and postjab you showed no COVID symptoms?

The CDC's belief that evading symptoms justifies everyone getting jabbed. The CDC claims being "fully vaccinated" allows your moving about without needing a mask. But, if the vaccines' effectiveness is expressed by how many people are protected from experiencing COVID "symptoms", then how are they immunizing the jabbed classes from the actual virus--or any of its more deadly and contagious variants (the media endless propaganda blitz will never mention vari-

ants without their frightfully being more deadly and transmittable). Symptoms are one thing and viruses are another. Suppose I take Aspirin every morning to relieve chronic back pain? Then does the subsiding of back pain mean aspirin is effective against further damage to the nerves or disc?

Another integral component of the society's anti COVID offensive includes bathing every surface in antibacterial anything. Thus, both self-appointed and in some cases conscripted spread stoppers frantically wipe and spray down objects' surfaces. Alas is their frenzied adaptation of Don Quixote necessary?

Not if we read and accept and the CDC's conclusion about the risk of COVID transmission from surfaces: Because of the many factors affecting the efficiency of environmental transmission, the relative risk of fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is considered low compared with direct contact, droplet transmission, or airborne transmission. [5] CDC thus states that risk of COVID spreading via surface transmission is low. Yet employers and employees ignore this CDC observation and continue scrubbing object surfaces per CDC guidelines. Once again this another example of CDC stating a low risk while promoting "guidelines" that suggest there is a high risk. COVID according to its high priests reshapes and re-engineers even the most banal acts like coughing or wheezing into deadly omens.

The concept of asymptomatic transmission wages psychological war first on the seemingly healthy. Your feeling healthy though is only a fatal false sense of security. In the COVID-tinged world healthy people need to be tested to discover the fatal virus surreptitiously lurking in their meat suit. Of course except when it doesn't. The CDC departs from the path of fear porn to cite a study conducted in Germany to assess the risk of asymptomatic spreading COVID: We determined secondary attack rates (SAR) among close contacts of 59 asymptomatic and

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symptomatic coronavirus disease case-patients by presymptomatic and symptomatic exposure. We observed no transmission from asymptomatic casepatients and highest SAR through presymptomatic exposure. Rapid quarantine of close contacts with or without symptoms is needed to prevent presymptomatic transmission. [6] This study's conclusion weakens the omnipotence attributed to the asymptomatic transmitter. Don't blink though because another danger beckons....The omnipotent super spreader may be a media construct. But COVID demonstrates its resourcefulness and efficiency by using even the most frail among us as spreading agents. Such signs of human frailty as coughing, inhaling and exhaling O2, and well for that matter existing justify every COVID warrior's most prized ritual accessory: the mask. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/ science/science-briefs/masking-science-sarscov2.html And, look at CDC studies cited: During March 1–December 31, 2020, state-issued mask mandates applied in 2,313 (73.6%) of the 3,142 U.S. counties. Mask mandates were associated with a 0.5 percentage point decrease (p = 0.02) in daily COVID-19 case growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61 –80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all) (Table 1) (Figure). Mask mandates were associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease (p = 0.03) in daily COVID-19 death growth rates 1– 20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.0, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.9 percentage points 21– 40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100

days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all). [7] The data does not show significant decreases in diagnoses or death. Again, what are these masks protecting against? CDC masks cult fixation continues. Simply look at the change in death and case rates after mask mandates were implemented. Uh slightly over 1% and under 2%. Negligible. Yes of course the range of acceptable outcomes may vary among different persons and groups. But, the relative changes in COVID-induced deaths still presupposes the testing mechanisms are reliable. Are they?

The FDA authorized various tests (actually over 100) to screen the masses for COVID. There are various brands but are divided into two categories: antibody and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The latter were more widely used. Analysis cites that if PCR tests set at 25 cycle thresholds identify COVID in the subject's genetic material, those same samples when cultured show 70% positive results. [8]. Moreover, tests set at 35 cycle thresholds that detect such genetic material when cultured only show 3% positive results.

[9].

The CDC's guidelines for PCR test cycle thresholds as we will see is a moving a target.

I did find their instructions for using PCR tests to identify COVID. Their instructional document is entitled "CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel." Other citation information for this document is as follows: "Catalog # 2019nCoVEUA-01 1000 reactions" and "CDC-006 -00019, Revision: 06 CDC/DDID/NCIRD/ Division of Viral Diseases Effective: 12/01/2020." I am citing this source in case it is removed from the public domain.

The CDC instructs those administering PCR tests in regard to cycle thresholds: When all controls exhibit the expected performance, a specimen is considered negative if all 2019 -nCoV marker (N1, N2) cycle threshold growth curves DO NOT cross the threshold line within 40.00 cycles (< 40.00 Ct)

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AND the RNase P growth curve DOES cross the threshold line within 40.00 cycles (< 40.00 Ct).

[10] CDC's instructions cited above reference cycle thresholds of 40 as of December 2020.

As an example of this 40 ct threshold being applied I will cite https:// www.publichealthontario.ca/en/about/ blog/2021/explained-covid19-pcr-testing-andcycle-thresholds Public Health Ontario's PCR -test methodology: At PHO, we have developed a PCR test in our lab, with positive and negative cutoff points. The cutoff point for a positive result for PHO’s developed lab test is 38 cycles. This means that if the virus is found at or before 38 cycles are completed, then the test is considered positive. The cutoff point for a negative result is 40 cycles. If the virus is detected between 38 and 40 cycles, we call this an indeterminate or inconclusive result. [11] So if the aforementioned research cited above (see citation #8) shows that 97% of PCR tests at 35 cycle thresholds are negative when subject genetic materials are cultured, then PHO's counting method suggests strong likelihood of false positive results. In other words PHO simply counts all PCR tests set at 35 ct with + results as indeed + regardless that only 3% of the subject genetic material will also reflect positive results once cultured.

The CDC suddenly in early May 2021 recommended PCR tests be set at 28 cycle thresholds when testing "vaccinated" subjects for breakthrough COVID infections. The CDC in early May of this year had previously posted on their website said recommendation.

Now the following edit message appears when attempting to use the URL to access the CDC's posted message wherein it stated using 28 ct: This content is located at the address below. Please take a moment to update your bookmark: I have not been able to find this CDC post

again. It may be posted elsewhere. But, I cannot find it.

So as late as December 2020 the CDC states PCR test should be set at 40 cycle thresholds to determine positive results. And, in May 2021 they recommend reducing the cycle thresholds to 28??????

The gaslighting of the masses continues.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/recs/ grade/covid-19-moderna-vaccine.html 2. Ibid.

3 JNJ "effectiveness" https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/ mm7009e4.htm?s_cid=mm7009e4_w 4 Pfizer "effectiveness" https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/ mm6950e2.htm?s_cid=mm6950e2_w 5 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019ncov/more/science-and-research/surfacetransmission.html 6 https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/4/204576_article 7. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/ mm7010e3.htm?s_cid=mm7010e3_w#F1_up 8. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/11/ e921/5912603 9. Ibid.

10. CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel.

11. https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/ about/blog/2021/explained-covid19-pcrtesting-and-cycle-thresholds

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Vaccine Fast Track to the Brave New World By: Robert Baker The drug companies and the mainstream media offer anxious yet confident reassurance that only a vaccine offers any hope to combat SARS COVID-2 and SARS COVID-19. Only a society already dependent on chemicals could seek solutions in vaccines. So Huxley's Brave New World ceases to provide material for futuristic banter, but instead becomes a living narrative that explains reality today.

I have seen conflicting poll numbers of the public’s faith in vaccines. I believe there are three main categories that reveal why we should question the underlying basis for widespread vaccinations. These three main categories are: Drug companies' funds allocated to both lobbying Congress and to elections, the decline in deaths from major illnesses in the early 20th century that predated widespread vaccinations, and the harmful effects of vaccinations occurring in third world countries.

First focus on Big Pharma's expenditures on elections and lobbying efforts. So far for the 2020 election cycle the pharmaceutical industry has spent $37 million. [1].

To comprehend the scale of their expenditure trends, we should review their contributions made during the 2018 and 2016 election cycles that totaled $44 million and $64 million, respectively. [2]. Big Pharma's contributions are roughly evenly divided between both the Corporate/War Party (aka Dems) and the War/ Corporate Party (GOP). These figures include contributions made to all office seekers on all levels of government. Their contributions to elections is a drop in the bucket compared to their lobbying expenditures.

Since 2016 Big Pharma's lobbying expenditures totaled over $1.4 billion [3]. Their lobbying efforts done on this scale show that legislatures are servants to corporations. What other conclusion show we deduce from such orgies of expenditures? Does such spending show a concern for the poor and working classes? Of course Big Pharma apologists may claim that this industry invents medications that effectively treat diseases and illnesses, and promote overall health, and protect children from diseases that barely a century

ago were still shortening lifespans.

I reply that Big Pharma's spending over $1.4 billion over the previous 5 years on lobbying our government should not blind us to the truth about the dangerous falsehoods propagated about their crown jewel: vaccines. Also, I believe lobbying is an inaccurate term given the scale of Big Pharma's spending. Lobbying as a description for their spending efforts should be replaced with regulatory capture. Big Pharma's accomplishing regulatory capture over legislatures reduces the public to a captive and servile society of guinea pigs for vaccines. Before we consent to Big Pharma's current attack on our freedom and health we should ask ourselves whether a century of vaccines creates rational levels of confidence in this industry?

The media's daily updates on the "progress" of antiCOVID vaccines presuppose that no other measures can combat this novel virus. He who controls the past controls the future. So before that man of conscience Dr. Faucci and humanity's most noble philanthropist William Gates lead us into their much prophesied Dark Winter we should visit the past regarding disease patterns before and after mass vaccinations The normative standard in our society is to accept vaccines as essential to public health and those whom question their necessity and efficacy are dismissed with the pejorative anti-vaxxers. Rather than your accepting the purveyors' propaganda of a vaccineinduced Brave New World review the following revelations: Starting with smallpox vaccines, continuing through typhoid, diphtheria and later through DPT and other vaccines, the highest incidence of targeted diseases occurred in the vaccinated.

Famously, the Leicester citizens’ boycott of smallpox vaccine stopped smallpox epidemics in their city.

Outbreaks of typhoid in the army occurred right after mass vaccination (Wright 1901).

A huge diphtheria outbreak in the vaccinated occurred in the 1940s in Nazi Germany and in Continue on page 29

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the Nazi occupied countries.

A documented 300% increase in the incidence of whooping cough starting in the 2-months old DPT recipients in the USA in mid seventies (Hutchins et al 1988).

Tetanus as a disease is an eminently instructive example of the harmful anaphylaxis caused by vaccine injections, and including Ebola. Based on the WHO reports, the original cause of the first Ebola outbreaks were unsterile and highly contaminated non-disposable injections used by the primitive ‘health’ centres in Africa (Scheibner. Ebola; an opportunity for a clinical trial? BMJ.com rapid response 19 October 2014; and Scheibner. Ebola: an opportunity for a clinical trial? BMJ.com rapid response 20 October 2014). [4] These observations cited above warrant at minimum respecting individuals' discretion to opt out of vaccinations. The observations cited occurred over the bulk of 20th century undermining the claim held with almost religious zeal that vaccines offer humanity a medical salvation. The impact on humanity of universal vaccinations is too critical to be ignored.

The U.S. Congress shows little urgency in better assessing the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Of course Congress' indifference wouldn't result from their receiving so much largesse from Big Pharma as cited above? At least there was one exception to this well established practice of Congress' indifference to vaccine dangers. For example: Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced H.R. 2832, the Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unavaccinated Populations Act of 2007. [5]. This Bill had 21 total co-sponsors. But, unsurprisingly, the bill went nowhere.

Currently no viable political movement exists within either of the two major parties that seeks to shift the debate about vaccines so that all safety testing methods and results are shared with the public. Instead, the major candidates predictably politicize the debate about vaccines, reducing the discussion to more mindless virtue signaling. Recently Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris have both expressed doubts that they and the public can trust any anti-COVID vaccines introduced during Trump's presidency. The Trump campaign responds accusing the Democratic duo of "spreading anti-vaccine conspiracy theories". So goes the dialectic, shrinking the subject-matter of debate to that which focuses on personalities.

Both Biden and Harris feign concern about the FDA operating without political interference, only beholden to one of the most cherished words in politicians' lexicons....the science.....Before Trump ever darkened the front door of the White House, executives from Big Pharma frequently rotated in and out of the revolving door at the FDA. Have either Biden or Harris proposed any bills in the Senate that would require the FDA to conduct independent tests of proposed vaccines? Their hypocrisy only feeds one side of this corrupt dialectic. Trump feeds the other side by rushing to bring a vaccine to market. Both sides accuse each other of conspiracy theories and politicizing what should be left to science. But, what is lost in this rhetorical shuffle is that both sides' claims presuppose the necessity and inevitability of vaccines. They both accept salvation by vaccination. They only differ on who is the more suitable pied piper to the lead the masses to the next phase of the Brave New World.

The elites' obsession with vaccines exposes their misanthropic impulses which we the masses must combat for our survival. The incidents of the poor and vulnerable serving as guinea pigs for such misanthropy occur in in broad and bright daylight: Given that the WHO has recently announced to all and sundry that India is now officially polio free, let’s have a look at the WHO’s own data…Despite claims that there were 30,000+ cases of polio in 1995, only 1,005 cases of AFP were notified in 1996, all of them being diagnosed as polio. In 2011, there were 60,849 cases of clinically diagnosed polio-like paralysis one (1) of which was confirmed as polio…

No doubt Professor Colquhoun is celebrating the wonderful success of the polio vaccination programme in India where children still got polio until recently even after having 30 plus polio vaccinations. I wonder if redefining what was called polio before vaccination eradication programme to AFP, or polio-like paralysis is what the good professor would call a medical success?” [6] Documented examples of diseases reemerging in spite of vaccines being administered to eradicate them should awaken our critical faculties so that we state forcefully The Emperor Has No Clothes. Yet the empire and its misanthropic members obsessively condition the masses to accept the necessity of their Brave New World.

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question the testing protocols used to "diagnose" this virus, or the fait accompli that only vaccines will save humanity. CNN displays a real-time scrolling tally of COVID death and destruction. Of course this affiliate of the Brave New World's Ministry of Information posts the COVID tally on the screen when reporting on the progress of the much anticipated vaccine. Neither politicians nor their associates in the Ministry of Information obsess on the number of cases of vaccineinduced harm. Instead, they adhere to the fear porn script comprised of lines once read and heard poison public discourse with COVID Reflux. Thus, they promote an embellished if not outright fraudulent public health scare and ignore a real tragedy caused in part by their vaccine overlords: On 9 August 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan notified WHO of the detection of a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in the country. According to the notification, the virus is genetically-linked with Chad (sequencing results showed 12 to 19 nucleotide changes). Two Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) cases were notified. The first case, a child of 48 months, had onset of paralysis on 7 March 2020 and was from Sulbi city of Kas locality in South Darfur state. The state is in the west of the country, bordering Central African Republic, South Sudan and close to the border with Chad. The second case, a child of 36 months, had onset of paralysis on 1 April 2020 and was from Shari city of AI Gedarif locality in Gedarif state in the east, close to the border with Eritrea and Ethiopia. Both children received the their last bOPV ( type 1 & 3) dose in 2019. Initial investigation indicates these cases are linked to cVDPV2s from the CHANDJ-1 emergence group which was first detected in October 2019 and is currently circulating in Chad and Cameroon. Eleven additional suspected cases have also been confirmed as cVDPV2 and field investigation reports are being consolidated. These cases are in the following states – Red Sea, West Darfur, East Darfur, White Nile, River Nile and Gezira.

Hence, between 9 August and 26 August 2020, there have been a total of 13 cVDPV2 cases reported. Additionally, three cVDPV2-positive environmental samples from Soba, Elgoz and Hawasha sites from Khartoum were detected (samples collected on 29 March 2020). Sequencing of viruses isolated in Sudan so far

reflects that the viruses are related with viruses reported earlier in neighboring Chad from where there were multiple separate introductions into Sudan from Chad. There is local circulation in Sudan and continued sharing of transmission with Chad. [7] The complications and harmful effects of vaccines should prompt our asking why are politicians and the media and public health officials so obsessed with vaccines as the only treatment option for COVID? Their failure to question the vaccine option given the harmful effects resulting from such a treatment option justifies my suspecting their COVID case total is inflated.

Why else does the exalted Physician-King for life Anthony Faucci at the National Institutes for Health' National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases express hope daily about vaccines only to move the goal post immediately and provide vague answers about what will accomplish immunization? Citizens should conduct their own research about the efficacy of vaccines. Don't unconditionally concede your health and medical decisions to Big Pharma, Bill Gates, Merck, Moderna, etc. In my view the worst indignity is seeing a class of inept politicians who lecture the public about duh-science as a convenient cover for their lacking the analytical rigor needed to review at minimum publicly accessible data about adverse reactions resulting from vaccines.

The Food and Drug Administration publishes data about adverse reactions from vaccines at www.medalerts.org. This database is called the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). The FDA's database shows that from 1990 (first year data was collected for this reporting system) to 2020 that 783,572 adverse were reported. [8]. Now of course the term adverse event can include a wide range of potential consequence of which some may be minor. On the other hand: Since VAERS is a passive system, it is inherently subject to underreporting. For example, a confidential study conducted by Connaught Laboratories, a vaccine manufacturer, indicated that “a fifty-fold underreporting of adverse events” is likely.13 According to David Kessler, former commissioner of the FDA, “only about one percent of serious events [adverse drug reactions] are reported.”14 [9] Is former FDA Commissioner David Kessler's stateContinue on page 31

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ment true? I don't know. But, enough data is available to us that warrants questioning those who promote zealously vaccines. How many of the sycophant politicians will review this data rather than anticipating a vaccine and regurgitating COVID-19 reflux? Will Texas Governor Greg Abbott review this data? Not according to the Texas Department of State Health Services that states on its own website in respect to the CDC's and FDA's VAERS: The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is not part of the reporting system and does not analyze or utilize any of the information submitted to VAERS. [10]

health through jabs that include aluminum and mercury. Beware those who preach that vaccines will deliver us out of the Dark Winter into the Brave New World.

[1]. OpenSecrets.org. Center for Responsive Politics https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/ totals.php?cycle=2016&ind=H04 [2]. Ibid.

[3]. Ibid. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/ indus.php?ind=H04

[4]. Viera Scheibner (PhD). "Media Blackouts Continue Concealing Truth about Vaccine-driven Diseases Governor Abbot cannot complete a sentence without Destroying Herd Immunity. 09/12/2020. Health Iminserting his manic mantra wear a mask. So he passes pact News. https://vaccineimpact.com/2015/mediaemergency declarations wherein mandates blackouts-continue-concealing-truth-about-vaccineor recommends or promotes mask-wearing to protect driven-diseases-destroying-herd-immunity/ us from each other. Will he pass any emergency declarations to protect Texans from drug companies seek- [5]. Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated ing monopoly rents and perpetual profit centers cour- and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007. Spontesy of both the public's taxes and flesh? sored by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY).

Vaccination zealots could dismiss Kessler's often cited statement that adverse-events are drastically under reported as a wild guess, mere speculation unsupported by data. The FDA's process for approving vaccines betrays their modus operandi is defined as regulatory capture. The FDA is promoted as bureaucracy of which its function is to oversee the approval process of new drugs to ensure they are safe and effective.

Their approval process for vaccines shows a dangerous privileging of Big Pharma.

[6]. Viera Scheibner.

The FDA posts their approval process for vaccines at https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/ development-approval-process-cber/vaccine-productapproval-process. The FDA cites many action verbs such as regulating, oversee, request, present, but I see no FDA's reference to their conducting independent research on any proposed vaccines under review for approval. Yes the FDA reviews the studies provided by the manufacturer requesting approval for the subject vaccine. But, the FDA does no independent studies on their own.

[9]. GS Goldman and NZ Miler. "Relative trends in hospitalizations and mortality among infants by the number of vaccine doses and age, based on the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (VAERS) 19902010." SAGE Human & Experimental Toxicology October 2012; 31(10): 1012-1021. https:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547435/ #:~:text=According%20to%20David%20Kessler% 2C%20former,serious%20vaccine%20adverse% 20events%20(e.g.%2C

[7]. World Health Organization. "Circulating vaccinederived poliovirus type-2 Sudan." September 1, 2020. https://www.who.int/csr/don/01-september2020-polio-sudan/en/ [8]. National Vaccine Information Center. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). http:// www.medalerts.org/

[10]. Texas Department of State Health SerI fear the day beckons when you will need to ask vices. https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/immunize/safety/ yourself would you rather die standing upright on vaersweb.shtm your two legs or to live on your knees. It is your decision. We live in an era where rage against an assort*************** ment of perceived evils as racism, sexism, environmentalism, etc justifies cancel culture and deplatforming. Meanwhile, Big Pharma, The U.S. PresiRobert blogs at dent, Congress, neo-Malthusian billionaires, and https://cynicaldreamerdispatches.blogspot.com mainstream media continue promoting better public 56 Fil-Am World Magazine 2021 © Issue 2 Vol. 2

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