Chris Hedges writes in Counterpunch:

“The conflict in the Ukraine echoes the novel ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the novel it is acknowledged by the narrator that ‘there had never been a death more foretold’ and yet no one was able or willing to stop it. All of us who reported from the Eastern Europe in 1989 knew the consequences of provoking Russia, and yet few have raised their voices to halt the madness. The methodical steps towards war took on a life of their own, moving us like sleepwalkers towards disaster.

“Once NATO expanded into Eastern Europe the Clinton administration promised Moscow that NATO combat troops would not be stationed in Eastern Europe, the defining issue of the NATO-Russia Founding Act on Mutual Relations. This promise again turned out to be a lie. Then in 2014 the U.S. backed a coup against the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who sought to build an economic alliance with Russia rather than the European Union. Of course, once integrated into the European Union, as seen in the rest of Eastern Europe, the next step is integration into NATO. Russia, spooked by the coup, alarmed at the overtures by the EU and NATO, then annexed Crimea, largely populated by Russian speakers. And the death spiral that led us to the conflict currently underway in the Ukraine became unstoppable.”

Learn more: Chronicle of War Foretold

A Recent Timeline on Ukraine

Russell Brand on the War as a Distraction

Tessa Lena: The Ukraine War is Horrible

The Epoch Times reports that a major German health insurance provider has concluded there have been many more injuries and deaths from COVID vaccines than health authorities have reported.

“The insurer, BKK ProVita, concluded that the rate of vaccine side-effects is several times larger than earlier reports from the Paul-Ehrlich Institute, a German federal agency, according to a letter from the company (pdf).

“BKK board member Andreas Schöfbeck told Die Welt publication that the data is an “alarm signal,” adding: “The numbers determined are significant and urgently need to be checked for plausibility. The letter, written by Schöfbeck, said BKK analyzed doctors’ billing data from 10.9 million insured people, finding that of that figure, some 217,000 received treatment due to vaccine side-effects.

“The data available to our company gives us reason to believe that there is a very considerable under-recording of suspected cases of vaccination side-effects after they received the [COVID-19] vaccine,” he wrote in his letter.

“If these figures are applied to the year as a whole and to” the entire population of Germany, Schöfbeck estimated, then “probably 2.5-3 million people in Germany had been under medical treatment because of vaccination side effects after [COVID-19] vaccination.”

Learn more: Data Show ‘Significant Underreporting’ of Vaccine Side Effects: German Health Insurer

See also: Board Member of Large German Insurance Company Blows the Whistle on COVID Vaccines

Tessa Lena (aka “Tessa Fighting Robots”) in this must-read commentary explains how you can talk to your liberal and progressive friends who have lost their minds during the pandemic. Instead of just talking about lab origins, rigged science, manipulated statistics, vaccine injuries and deaths, child abuse, and fear-mongering, how about the troubling convergence of gene editing, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, automation, neurotechnology, vaccine passports, digital surveillance, psychologically augmenting soldiers fighting ability, and authoritarian government control?

Lena quotes the Rand corporation, a longstanding U.S. military advisor, on the high-tech, transhumanist future that our elites have in mind, which they call the “Internet of Bodies.” The IOB is designed to “track, record, and store users’ whereabouts, bodily functions, and what they see, hear, and even think. These devices vary greatly in how they are used — some are freestanding, such as infusion pumps and sensor- equipped hospital beds; others are wearable, such as health trackers and prosthetics; and others are implanted, such as cardiac devices and ingestible digital pills.”

Learn more: How to Talk to Your Conspiracy Denialist Friends

As we learned from Dr. Henry Ealy in Monday’s weekly broadcast on data coming into the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, the latest VAERS data for 12-to-17-year-olds include 7 deaths and 271 serious adverse events following COVID vaccination.

VAERS data showed a total of 358,379 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and June 11, 2021.

On June 21, 2021, the World Health Organization updated its recommendation on who should be vaccinated to read:

Children should not be vaccinated for the moment.

There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults.

Appallingly, the WHO toned down its language the next day:

Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults, so unless they are part of a group at higher risk of severe COVID-19, it is less urgent to vaccinate them than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers.  

More evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be able to make general recommendations on vaccinating children against COVID-19.

Still, the message is clear: It isn’t worth the risk to vaccinate kids for COVID-19.

Tragically, many people in the situations listed above, as well as children 17 and younger, have already been vaccinated and U.S. public health authorities continue to make it their policy to vaccinate them. 

With lower rates of infection among children compared with adults, the CDC’s recommendations are perplexing. Why encourage a vaccine that has no long term safety data to support its use and carries more risk to children’s health than the actual disease? 

Learn more: WHO Says Don’t Vaccinate Kids for COVID-19