DDP Newsletter – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

WHAT IS FEMA DOING?

DDP Newsletter Vol. XL, No. 5

In the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, many people were asking this question. Accusations first about absence and then about slow deployment and malfeasance are widely disseminated and officially denied. Also, sensationalist theories assert that the storm was man-made or steered for a nefarious purpose, such as to affect the election or to wipe out those who oppose lithium mining in this area. Counterintuitively, influencers who promote such allegations claim to belong to the political side that was always highly skeptical about “man-made climate change.”

What is the true situation?

Whatever it is, it is not new. During Hurricane Katrina, people asked the same question, and the passage of S.3721, the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 (https://tinyurl.com/8jyctvar) seemingly made no difference.

FEMA operates like any other corrupted bureaucracy: response will be slow and encumbered with red tape. There will be conflicts with local and state authorities and volunteers. As one person who did public relations for the agency during disasters described it, “FEMA sends in the money truck.” An official photo from North Carolina shows a neat trailer with staff to help people fill out forms. So far, a relatively paltry $4 million has been paid directly to families and individuals in the week after Hurricane Helene, reports Larry Bell, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has warned that his $640.9 million FEMA storm relief budget is now just about tapped out for the rest of this season (https://tinyurl.com/9a4rrwtz).

“FEMA is broke,” said Prof. Peter St Onge, because of spending on other priorities such as Ukraine and migrants. Quoting America First Legal, he said that “Over the last 4 years the Biden-Harris admin has steadily transformed FEMA into an illegal alien resettlement agency” (https://tinyurl.com/y5pxyjw5). Critics of this interpretation claim that subsidies for immigrants come from a “different source” and that the GOP-led House is responsible for the agency’s funding shortfall (https://tinyurl.com/4a5tn8p3).

But where are relief supplies going, and who is rescuing people?

Elon Musk accused FEMA of “belligerent government incompetence.” He claimed that FEMA was “blockading the disaster area and preventing private helicopters from delivering Starlink terminals, which connect to satellite internet service, and other supplies…. @FEMA is both failing to help AND won’t let others help” (tinyurl.com/25thtp8z).

Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg said, “No one is shutting down the airspace and FAA doesn’t block legitimate rescue and recovery flights.” A FEMA spokesperson stated, “FEMA has helped provide Starlink terminals…. These units are supporting state and local municipalities, Urban Search and Rescue and disaster coordination” (ibid.).

[Musk noted that Starlink likely would have already been up and running in some of these areas if the Harris-Biden Federal Communications Commission hadn’t stopped a $885 million grant to SpaceX to provide broadband to rural communities in 2022. The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law set aside $42 billion to build broadband infrastructure in rural and underserved communities, but so far, zero connection have been made.]

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell called the “false” criticisms of the agency’s response “dangerous.” They could hinder FEMA’s recovery efforts. “It has a tremendous impact on the comfort level of our own employees to be able to go out there, but it’s also demoralizing to all of the first responders…FEMA staff, volunteers,” she told host George Stephanopoulos (https://tinyurl.com/mstnssvp).

One allegation is that FEMA refused to supply body bags and was planning to bulldoze an area without recovering the bodies. A responsive response would have been: “We did supply the body bags. All human remains will be treated with respect. Here is a source of information about efforts to identify them.” This has not been heard.

The task is enormous; volunteers are urgently needed. However, FEMA.gov urges you to “donate and volunteer responsibly.” You should register before volunteering. Unaffiliated volunteers who self-deploy might burden the community, FEMA warns.

As disaster response lags, FEMA’S new priorities, posted on its website, are: (1) Instill equity as a foundation of emergency management; (2) Lead whole of community in climate resilience; (3) Promote and sustain a ready FEMA and prepared nation.

Criswell said she made Equity her priority; then FEMA held Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training saying the U.S. is rooted in extreme violence, and “White Supremacy is in almost every institution” (https://tinyurl.com/yrfbrb8r). In a virtual meeting in March 2023, FEMA emergency management specialist Tyler Atkins said the agency was prioritizing LGBTQ people because they are “already disadvantaged.” LGBTQ victims should receive more support because they would have been “already struggling” before a natural disaster (https://tinyurl.com/39syehx7).

FEMA BACKGROUND

DDP was originally part of The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA). Our joint meetings generally featured a speaker from FEMA—when it still concerned itself with civil defense. In the Reagan Administration, under Gen. Julius Becton, FEMA revived nuclear war defense instead of being an “all hazards but one” agency. It supported the construction of five mobile NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) shelter displays, which appeared at DDP meetings and were taken by DDP to county and state fairs in many cities. The one made for FEMA deteriorated unused at the National Emergency Training Center until it was finally buried to use in fire-training exercises. FEMA required us to remove the medical kit as too dangerous for laypeople (the updated version can be downloaded from ddponline.org/medkit).The refurbished Arizona shelter appeared at the 2023 meeting and is now popular in Oregon at fairs and in parades. Today, the U.S. is largely do-it-yourself for all hazards as well as for civil defense.

FEMA was started by executive order in the Nixon Administration to assure the survivability of the United States government in the event of a nuclear attack on this nation. It was also assigned the task of being a federal coordinating body during times of domestic disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes.

Over the years, the scope of FEMA’s activities has expanded, as have its powers, through a series of executive orders. For example, E.O. 11921 of June 11, 1976, gives the federal government power over all “usable water” (https://tinyurl.com/39wp43j3).

Only a small fraction of FEMA’s spending goes for helping U.S. disaster victims. Continuity of government—including elaborate bunkers for selected officials—is likely the highest priority. Some say that FEMA is the most powerful organization in the U.S.—or could be in case of a national crisis (real or imagined). Meanwhile, it is busily implementing the regime’s political and social priorities, as flood victims are abandoned.

COVID-19 POST-MORTEM

DDP Newsletter Vol. XL, No. 1

After a disaster, it is critical to do a “post-mortem” analysis for lessons learned—or the equivalent of an M&M (Mortality and Morbidity) conference for surgical outcomes.

The COVID-19 emergency is officially over, although one sees occasional masks, and “booster” shots are constantly recommended. Already there is talk of “Disease X,” which might be “20 times worse.”

The first lesson might be the need for post-mortems (autopsies) of early deaths. After a delay of many months, a dozen autopsies revealed the importance of inflammation and blood clots. Thousands of deaths might have been caused by rigid hospital protocols, with overly aggressive sedation and ventilation, and failure to use anti-inflammatories, such as steroids, and anticoagulants in the second and later phases of disease (see McCullough Protocol, as at https://aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/).

Discussion of these issues and many others was prevented by unprecedented censorship of anything that disagreed with the lavishly funded fear campaign. The common sense of intelligent lay people occasionally overcame it.

YouTuber Gonzalo Lira said that at first he was very afraid, and wondered whether he should buy a couple of ventilators, in case his family should need them in a medically impoverished country (Ukraine). But while traveling in Amsterdam, he conversed with homeless (but not unintelligent or uneducated) junkies, and noticed that this vulnerable population was not dying. When the vaccines were released, he recalled that when he was 5 years old he had seen children with flaps for limbs, because of “safe and effective”—but inadequately tested—thalidomide. He decided to wait to see whether girls born to vaccinated mothers had normal fertility (http://tinyurl.com/apczmedt, 21 min.).

Lira, an American citizen, got the harshest form of censorship—imprisonment, torture, and death due to refusal of medical treatment in a Ukrainian prison. The U.S. Department of State did nothing while he languished without trial for 7 months.

(Lira’s offense involved posting YouTube videos from an apartment in Kharkov, with incisive commentary about the war in Ukraine, Western culture, and world affairs, with many interesting interviews. He clearly was not a “Russian asset,” but was very critical of U.S. policy. The most intolerable posting might have been his commentary on U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and her role in the Russia-Ukraine war (tinyurl.com/mvv7vt36). Postings by and about Lira can still be found by searching X.com, including Tucker Carlson’s interview of his father (http://tinyurl.com/a5ey72hm). Like Carlson, Lira asserted that Ukraine was not winning the war.)

Censorship of scientists and physicians who disagree with the official narrative on pandemic control measures or treatment protocols has so far been limited to attacks on their livelihood. Yet as with “climate deniers,” “COVID deniers” or “vaccine deniers” have faced public demands to exclude them from participation in life, or even to imprison or to “gas” them (http://tinyurl.com/59xmx28a).

Incalculable losses include ruptured family ties and friendships; grief, anxiety, and depression because of separation from dying family members or cancelation of important events such as graduations; cognitive losses owing to school closures, masking, and other measures; trauma from overzealous law enforcement; and loss of freedom.

THE $16 TRILLION VIRUS

JAMA estimated the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic at $16 trillion in the Oct 20, 2020, issue. That is 90% of the U.S. GDP, more than twice the cost of all wars the U.S. has fought since 2001, and four times the lost output in the Great Recession. Since the onset of COVID-19 in March, 60 million claims for unemployment had been filed, greater than 1 million per week. The prior record was 695,000 in the week of Oct 2, 1982.

A survey of 10,000 persons in May 2020 showed that about half reported losses of income and wealth, an average of about $5,000 and $33,000, respectively (http://tinyurl.com/bdfny6dd). Federal spending meant to mitigate lockdown effects led to the “hockey stick” pattern of federal debt (http://tinyurl.com/mw3a7n2k). This is on top of what Prof. Peter St Onge calls the “greatest credit bubble in history,” which “despite bank failures and commercial real estate collapse has not yet begun to pop” (http://tinyurl.com/trehpjdu).

Based on modeling and numerous assumptions, some calculated a cost of $90 million per life saved by measures such as “social distancing” and lockdowns (http://tinyurl.com/34vaswht). (It is now being admitted that the 6-ft distancing was based on nothing.)

In the COVID response, “we have reached the bottom of human baseness,” write Tom Jefferson and Carl Henegan (“The Rule of Terror and Empty Vessels,” http://tinyurl.com/msycusrc). The government “managers” and the media lured the populace into a state of panic, in order achieve control. Vital records have systematically been erased to cover corporate backs and avoid the nuisance of Freedom of Information requests. “The unedifying…show among politicians and their cliques continues, laid bare by the WhatsApp messages surviving the nightly cull. In archaeology, they would be known as ‘residual deposits surviving later disturbance,’ meaning what’s left of documentable and verifiable evidence after thieves, robbers and demolition squads have taken their toll.” Because of their stance, they write, “we have been subject to personal attacks, University investigations, spying, ostracism and loss of jobs.”

The public-health control measures were supposed to be a stopgap until we had the miraculous vaccine, but control was relinquished reluctantly, if at all. Many vaccinated persons had so little confidence in vaccine protection that they continued to mask. Indeed, protection was partial and quickly waned, and was never shown to interrupt transmission. Adverse effects, if acknowledged at all, were said to be “rare” (tinyurl.com/yeymnfxc).

At least 9 million Americans probably lost their jobs (tinyurl.com/4p8akxp5)—likely including many of our most skilled, experienced, and irreplaceable workers—for refusing the shot. How many young, apparently healthy working people died unexpectedly from adverse reactions? Cancers seemingly are increased in frequency and aggressiveness (http://tinyurl.com/59zn9hxx). Disability claims are up 33% after the vaccine rollout (http://tinyurl.com/yc8s56va). Delayed adverse effects may take years to manifest. The final tally might show the worst public health disaster in history.

42^nd ANNUAL MEETING

Our annual meeting w ill be held in El Paso, TX, on July 5-7^th. A group outing to the world’s largest inland water desalination plant will be held on Friday, July 5. Watch www.ddponline.org for agenda and on-line registration.

Will Bank Dominos Fall?

DDP Newsletter Vol. XXXIX, No. 2

With the sudden collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), recently rated very highly, people are understandably nervous. This was said to be the second largest bank failure in history. Will your bank be next?

SVB’s special features included administrators who were more concerned about being “woke” than about the financial stability of their bank. Most depositors (93%), including many venture capitalists, had accounts greatly in excess of the FDIC-insured amount of $250,000. Many are just very very important persons, such as Prince Harry or major donors to the Democratic Party—and major businesses linked to the Chinese Communist Party. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, after an initial denial, said that they would all be bailed out—at the expense of consumers who will have to pay increased fees that banks must assess to rebuild the Deposit Insurance Fund (tinyurl.com/y2uvak8z).

Yellen told Congress that depositors at other banks would be similarly protected only if “failure to protect uninsured depositors would create systemic risk and significant economic and financial consequences” (https://tinyurl.com/pv7cmh3a).

If fears sparked by recent bank runs continue, there could be a sharp drop in the velocity of money as people hoard cash, with sizable deflationary/depressionary effects, writes Richard Maybury. But he states that you need not fear a run on your bank like the one depicted in the 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life. He writes: “When the Twin Towers came down in 2001, a run on the banks began. Federal Reserve staff quickly contacted armored car companies to make sure any bank needing greenbacks could be speedily resupplied. The run was nipped in the bud, and you probably never heard about it.”

If he were in charge, he would have such a rescue plan ready. Depositors would get their money back. But what would it be worth (Early Warning Report April-May 2023)?

Like many, Maybury recommends owning some precious metals as a back-up. It might be too late—at this moment, platinum coins and small-denomination silver coins are unavailable. A few coins that you can carry might be lifesaving. Remember, however, that living in a rural area with a large stash of gold in a nonportable safe will not light your home, keep you warm, protect you from thugs or wild animals, or cure a bacterial infection. My grandfather’s 4 G’s were grub, gold, guns, and ground. Perhaps more important are 3 G’s: grub, guns, and gear—tools and useful items of all types.

Remember that bank depositors are unsecured creditors. Increasingly, banks are denying delaying access to deposits, or refusing credit cards if they “suspect” fraud.

Banks’ loss of depositors is an alarming trend. From a high of $18.15 trillion in April 2022 total deposits at all US commercial banks dropped to $17.3 trillion as of March 22, 2023, a loss of $850 billion of capital in the past 12 months. As the Fed hikes rates, deposits are withdrawn to seek a higher return (tinyurl.com/2zwxjyt5). Though having a large effect, the inflation-adjusted Fed funds rate is still -1.9%, meaning that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is “so far behind the inflation curve that they can barely see its tail lights,” writes David Stockman (https://tinyurl.com/bdhy8exj). Since March 2008, the Fed funds rate has been negative in real terms 96% of the time.

The contagion is not restricted to the U.S. The Swiss bailed out Credit Suisse, which Stockman describes as a “walking dumpster fire, which had fallen for nearly every fraudster on the planet.” Since 2016, it had booked $3.3 billion of cumulative losses even as it had paid out $4.9 billion in dividends and stock buybacks (ibid.).

SVB’s egregiously mismatched asset book still amounted to only 0.6% of the U.S. banking system, and Credit Suisse’s $718 billion of assets amounted to just 0.4% of the global banking system. The bailouts amount to a confession that “15 years of negative real interest rates have so thoroughly infected the banking system with gambling excesses that they dare not allow even the sub-1 percenters to face their just deserts.”

The Fed is an SDI (Systematically Dangerous Institution), Stockman states.

FINANCIAL MELTDOWN AND UKRAINE

The war in Ukraine is occurring as the states that are “at war with Russia” stand “at the edge of an economic precipice.” Living standards are collapsing, prices are spiraling, jobs are priced out by higher energy costs, shelves have empty spaces, and pockets of system dysfunctionality as in transport systems are confounding the smooth running of society, writes Alistair Crooke. The Europeans fear kinetic war in Europe, whereas the American faction is more fearful of the prospect of financial meltdown, should the war widen. The “Rockefeller-Davos prescription” of blowing a new financial bubble of “renewable tech” to keep the dollar-hegemony project afloat is running into difficulty as the world is moving toward decentralization and multipolarity (tinyurl.com/2rwxmn8b).

In response to U.S. sanctions disconnecting their banks from international financial services, Iran and Russia have integrated their interbank communication and transfer systems to help enhance trade and financial operations. The Russian Financial Message Transfer System “is immune to sanctions as it is based on the infrastructures of both countries,” according to Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Mohsen Karimi (https://tinyurl.com/53jdu7nn).

Countries that are dumping the dollar also include China, Brazil, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and India: the majority of the world economy.

41stANNUAL MEETING

DDP’s 41^st annual meeting will be held in Tucson at the Doubletree Reid Park, July 7-9. The theme is: “Global Crises: Reawakening vs. ‘Reset’.” Developing crises include energy poverty, food shortages, the corruption of science and education, possible new pandemics, escalating war that could go nuclear, and economic decline.

Sadly, Jay Lehr, “the world’s most optimistic man,” died recently, so will not be with us. As Edward Teller said, “It is our duty to be optimistic, as otherwise we do nothing to change things.” Thus, the meeting will feature ways to counter alarmism and self-destructive policies; effective pandemic response; the promise of nuclear energy; therapeutic advances (photobiomodulation); and decontamination technology (ozone).

Civil defense will be highlighted by Stephen Jones, including breakthroughs in radiation monitoring. The mobile nuclear/biological/chemical shelter display that debuted at DDP in the 1980s will be back.

Banquet speaker Robert Zubrin, founder and president of Pioneer Energy, has authored more than 200 technical and non-technical publications in various areas of astronautical, aerospace, fossil fuel, and nuclear engineering, and 14 U.S. patents. He will be available to sign his latest book, The Case for Nukes.

Nuclear War Thoughts in the 2020s

DDP Newsletter Vol. XXXIX, No. 1

A successor to the 1984 nuclear apocalypse, The Day After, was released in 2020—interesting timing? Night into Day (https://tinyurl.com/4ck9xuv8) is a fairly realistic depiction of the beliefs and probable reactions of most Americans.

Many do not believe the radio warnings of an imminent attack but intend to proceed with their planned activities, in this case filing for divorce the next day. The soon-to-be-ex visits his estranged wife to sign papers but doesn’t leave because of jammed freeways. The couple are stuck in a tiny apartment. When the flash comes, he drops to the floor—she is standing at the window and is knocked down. The power goes out; there is no TV or cell phone service. The first thought is to leave. They find an old paper map and gather all their canned food and water, but have nowhere to go. Anyway, cars don’t work.

Katie ventures outside to search for some potassium iodide to save them from radiation, thinking that someone in the building might have a thyroid problem, or there might be some at the corner pharmacy. None is found. The only plan is to await rescue. Based on past experience with hurricanes, they expect FEMA to arrive in 48 hours. Soon, they begin to suffer radiation sickness from the initial release.

None of the people commenting on the film appear to have read even the first 35 pages of Nuclear War Survival Skills. There is nothing about fire hazards, initial radiation vs. fallout, radiation monitoring, radiation protection factors, expedient shelter, or the actual purpose of potassium iodide.

Stephen Jones writes: “The whole movie is worth watching as it gives a sense of what most people will be facing, both their ignorance and denial. Psychologically it was well done. It’s a movie about what not to do.” He points out that more than 100 civil defense films are available on www.youtube.com. Just search “civil defense.” While some are outdated and no longer relevant, others are excellent.

He says: “Many people would embrace the truth if they knew where to find it.”

“Nukes are in the news, every day 24/7! Fighting in Ukraine is said to be on par with World War II battles. In each month more soldiers are killed than in ten years of the Vietnam war. Talk of using nuclear weapons by both sides grows each day.”

“Biblically we are in the time of apocalypse, meaning ‘that which is hidden is now being revealed.’”

Compared to decades ago, Jones writes, “our current inventory of civil defense meters is massive. Very likely we have the largest inventory of rad monitors for the public and emergency response in the country, and our rad monitors are the only ones designed specifically for nuclear fallout that are reliable and simple to use.”

The Kearny Fallout Meter, which was originally considered to be the meter of last resort, is the meter of only resort for the current crisis. “The best we can do with our current inventory of some 160,000 meters is to encourage the public at large to make their own.” Unfortunately, the digital age has dumbed down most of the public. The KFM was designed to be built by children born before 1968. Due to the digital age, those born later did not develop gadgeteering skills. Still, there are many millions of seniors alive today with the skills to make the simple KFM from the instructions in Nuclear War Survival Skills, with materials found in the average kitchen. The unwaxed dental floss originally specified is no longer available, but the plastic bag strips and clean human hair work. Alcohol on a Q-tip works to clean meter stop threads if contaminated with hand oil.

The breakthrough SIRAD (self-indicating radiation alert dosemeter) technology (https://tinyurl.com/4ttwfdrt), the basis for the Oh Shucks! Meter, has not been widely adopted. Jones attributes this to the Semmelweis reflex and to interagency rivalry in federal and state governments. NWSS was created by the U.S. Department of Energy (the agency that handles nuclear weapons). SIRAD was created by the Department of Defense. When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formed, it could not even be persuaded to add the Oak Ridge National Laboratory website (www.ornl.gov) to DHS’s site, www.ready.gov.

Searching ready.gov for any type of radiation monitoring device turned up nothing. Entering “Geiger” turned up three links to “gender.”

An additional problem is the collusion or corruption in the incestuous relationships between bankers, developers, and politicians that are making our cities tinderboxes, firestorms waiting to be lit by nukes. Instead of blast-resistant construction at a cost of only ten percent, modern buildings are built of “straw” like Hollywood sets, or sheathed in glass that would be shattered by a blast wave.

There has been massive opposition to civil defense work and to related new technology. Most importantly, enemy propaganda has been successful in convincing Americans that nuclear war is not survivable. This began with books/movies like On The Beach and Level 7, but we still hear it constantly, even from “patriotic” sources. So far, the new technology has not been a commercial success. If panic sales hit, we must charge enough to take the technology worldwide—and to distribute it to first responders.

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness was founded 40 years ago by the fathers of the atomic age to keep civil defense alive. Some of those founders were also responsible for the creation of the U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear War Survival Skills and Kearny Fallout Meter project.

So far, our accomplishments have included groundwork towards science education nationally. We are responsible for the fact that science teachers nationwide wide now use common smoke detectors for their radioactive sources instead of expensive sources “approved” by educational sales companies. We saved more than 20,000 Geiger counters headed for landfills and got them into classrooms instead. Shane Connor (www.ki4u.com) has salvaged an additional 100,000 from the scrap heap.

Our people may have a second chance to get prepared before an all-out nuclear attack occurs. Though the situation of our country looks dismal indeed, recall that the Bible is explicit about times in which “evil shall slay the wicked” (Psalms 34:21).

PREPAREDNESS TIPS

Your life could be saved by wearing white cotton undergarments. One soldier’s life was thus saved in Hiroshima when his outer clothing instantly burned off.
If there is warning, fill every available container with water.
Do not try to outrun fallout. Shelter in place is generally better.
Have small LED flashlights and headlamps.
Have a portable radio and plenty of batteries.

See http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm for what to do if an attack is imminent.

Entomophagy – A ‘Sustainable’ Diet?

DDP Newsletter, Vol. XXXVII, No. 6

Using insects as a main source of animal protein is a big part of the World Economic Forum’s plans for us. To sustain a continued growth of 75 million souls per year, they say all of us need to eat bugs, just as some people have for centuries.

In fact, you may already be eating them as deliberate ingredients and not just contaminants. It’s another reason to read the labels on your food carefully.

If you search on amazon for “crickets” you will find Hotlix along with the food for reptiles, birds, and fish. Hotlix candy is made from “real crickets” and is said to be ideal as stocking stuffers or gifts for Father’s Day, birthdays, or other occasions. A “raw power cricket protein bar” is available in a package labeled “Thank you for saving earth!” Cricket flour is being incorporated into all kinds of products from soups to pasta.

Raising insects is supposed to be much better for the Planet than raising livestock. Insects are said to require about 4% of the water and 10% of the amount of grain that a cow would require to produce the same amount of food biomass. Livestock emit methane and ammonia waste (a,k,a. fertilizer). “Livestock is the second largest contributor to the most serious environmental concerns and augments 18% of greenhouse gas emissions.” Termites produce only 5% of global methane emissions, compared with 28% by livestock (https://tinyurl.com/3wnzyhur). Livestock also take up space (which might be needed for solar and wind installations).

No part of the insect is wasted—you eat all of it, including the skeleton and whatever it ate, at all stages of the digestive process. Insects are commonly fed oatmeal before they are fed to humans to clean their intestinal tract. “Therefore, insects that are farmed and fed a reliable food source are typically safer than foraged insects. When eating insects, it is important to remain safe in order to reap the full benefits of these edible arthropods” (https://tinyurl.com/p44y4pc3).

Insects may help you lose weight. They have a high-protein, low-fat nutritional profile. When compared to beef, crickets had about half the calories and one-third the amount of fat for the same weight of meat (ibid.).

Public acceptance has been surprisingly high, especially if people are told they are saving the planet from global warming. Indoctrination is beginning early as children are fed insect snacks at school. Fitness studios are adding insect protein powders to their on-site food offerings. The market for edible insects is expected to grow by more than 26% per year, reaching $4.6 billion by 2027 (https://tinyurl.com/3djjfmvj).

Researchers have ground up insects and found the amino acid, mineral, and micronutrient content to be “highly nutritious.” I have been unable to find any long-term studies of the effects of an insect-based diet on health. Apparently, such evidence is not needed to promote—or force—a radical change in people’s lives.

Among the benefits touted by the New Yorker: “They are natural recyclers, capable of eating old cardboard, manure, and by-products from food manufacturing. And insect husbandry is humane: bugs like teeming, and thrive in filthy, crowded conditions” (https://tinyurl.com/yrd3pr97).

Some allergic problems are acknowledged. Persons with shellfish allergies might be allergic to chitin. Depending on what the insects ate, they might not be gluten-free.

Some humans can digest chitin, which forms insects’ exoskeleton, but the majority probably cannot. Some studies show evidence that chitin may be carcinogenic and trigger the immune system, writes Robert Malone, M.D. (https://tinyurl.com/mrycbv8y).

Chitin activates a variety of innate (eosinophils, macrophages) and adaptive immune cells (IL-4/IL-13 expressing T helper type-2 lymphocytes). Chitin induces cytokine production, leukocyte recruitment, and alternative macrophage activation. “The significance of chitin and its derivatives on immune responses has not been fully appreciated.” (https://tinyurl.com/yj3z88vv).

Other effects include potential interference with the absorption of dietary lipids from the gastrointestinal tract. Long-term consumption might lead to deficiency of fat-soluble vitamins A and E (https://tinyurl.com/yx8utpnn).

Breads made with powdered cricket flour may be loaded with potentially dangerous bacterial spores (ibid.). One study detected parasites in 81% of insect farms, and 30% of those could potentially affect humans (tinyurl.com/35kdu2m8). Studies of other risks such as bacterial pathogens are being compiled (https://tinyurl.com/34y8vfp5).

A search on “edible insects; safety” on Pubmed.gov found articles considering contamination with mycotoxins or heavy metals, transference of antibiotic resistance, insect viruses, pesticide residues, and changes in gut microbiota. As one abstract noted: “Further studies are needed to evaluate the possible effects of prolonged insect consumption on human health.” However, the plan apparently is like that for novel vaccines: implement globally, with a multimillion-dollar propaganda campaign (https://tinyurl.com/m64uwxhm), and constantly repeat “safe and effective.”

For example, PBS, which has received millions from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, recently aired a new documentary pushing the bug-eating agenda (https://tinyurl.com/468hc63h).

DELIBERATELY CREATED FOOD SHORTAGES

Why the emergency? Part of UN agenda 2030 is to cut 30% of land from farm production, Dr. Malone reports. Once gone, a farm is not immediately replaceable. Meeting zero-emission “climate” goals is said to require reducing meat consumption to 24 kg per person per year, from the current OECD average of 70 kg. The Dutch government is expropriating 3,000 farms based on a false “nitrogen crisis” (tinyurl.com/4nwnzht3).The Netherlands is the world’s second-largest food exporter.

Fertilizer shortages and high prices, partly due to the high price of natural gas, the feedstock for ammonia fertilizer, will cause serious decreases in crop yields (tinyurl.com/mtjp5jru) and likely widespread starvation (https://tinyurl.com/ydrxd48t).

Plant-derived fake meat and Israeli-based 3D-printed lab-grown meat from cultured animal fibroblasts are being promoted. Believer Meat is building the world’s largest facility in North Carolina (https://tinyurl.com/5xh5vznw).

The main commercial driver behind the push to use crickets as food in North America is Aspire Groups, “supported” by the UN, Dr. Malone writes. A single facility in Canada can immediately begin producing 9000 tons (18 million pounds) of crickets a year, with the help of artificial intelligence. Aspire Foods is listed as one of the top ten outstanding projects to advance UN sustainable food goals, particularly in North America. Will these gambles pay off for Bill Gates and other developers? Possibly. But how much world depopulation will result?