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Posted by Jewish Israel on October 27, 2011 at 5:00pm
In the wake of the Waller family's and Hayovel Ministry's continued involvement with a number of communities in Yehuda and Shomron, Jewish Israel has been asked to issue an updated report. Some of the information presented herein was included in the presentation given to Rav Dov Lior and the Hebron community council on September 14, 2011.
Jewish Israel first reported on the Waller family and their activities in Israel back in October 2009. In that initial report we expressed concern over the stated missionary agenda of Wallers, and noted that they had close connections with leaders of Israel's proselytizing messianic community. This was followed up by an extensive report issued in January 2011 which focused on the Wallers' active and visible participation in an anti-Semitic documentary (2010) presenting Christian messianics as a persecuted minority in Israel. The award-winning film featured missionary activity directed at Jews.
In this report, Jewish Israel exposes the very recent actitivies of the Wallers and those of their close missionary affiliates, who are active throughout Israel and have facilitated in bringing Christian missionaries on aliyah.
Makover for the Wallers
The Wallers of Hayovel have, once again, redesigned their website, compliments of the very talented messianic photographer Heather Meyers. It's worth noting that Meyers' work is not limited to photographing pastoral images, Waller weddings, and vinedressers. Over the last few years, Meyers' lens has also captured the ICEJ Feast of the Tabernacles and created an empathetic case for hard-hitting missionary Edwin Beckford in Arad.
In order to finance Meyers' work with Hayovel, messianic friends of the Wallers are raising funds for the project via their website, HomeShalom.blogspot.com. Pamela and Ben of HomeShalom apparantly feel that Heather and Jake Meyers' service in Israel includes christianty's ploy of "provoking Judah [the Jews] to jealousy" (as espoused in the new testament, Romans 11:11) and holding the hand of the Jews when they finally recognize and accept jesus.
David Ha'ivri, of the Shomron Liason Office (Yeshuv.org) is taking advantage of Meyers' talents in order to promote the Shomron's partnership with Waller's Hayovel Ministries. Yeshuv.org shares a full page add featuring Tommy Waller and his havesting family in the October edition of the Jerusalem Post Christian Edition magazine. Images of Tommy Waller and company were liberally splashed on ads appearing online and in newspapers throughout Succot.
Shuva Israel, is another organization funding the promotion of the "Christian volunteer work program in communities in Samaria with HaYovel Ministry." David Ha'ivri sits on the Shuva Israel board, whose membership consists of Jewish and evangelical leaders and activists.
It is apparent and unfortunate that the Wallers and several of their associates are involved in far more than innocently harvesting grapes and producing postive public relations for Israel.
Despite their new carefully worded "gospel-free" web presence, a biblically inspired Christian restoration for Israel has consistently remained the name of the game for the Wallers and for a number of fundamentalist Christians, who are becoming increasingly and passionately attached to the land of Israel. In newsletters and articles, Tommy Waller and others are drawing upon new testament proof texts in order to substantiate what they consider to be their future inheritance: "If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise". (Galatians 3:29).
The very same sentiment was expressed by Sherri Waller in a 2009 interview [JI: original article not available - archived copy here] in the Williamson Herald: "For us it's a spiritual deal – a faith deal," said Sherri Waller. "The battle is over the land because God gave it to the descendants of Abraham – that includes us."
Making Mel Gibson look good
In January 2010, a full length documentary movie was released in Korea called "Restoration". Produced by a Korean Christian company, the film captured the subject of the alleged persecution of Christian missionaries in Israel, using the Ami Ortiz case as their focal point. The film was reportedly a major success in Korea, playing in movie theatres for 4 months, and winning the 2010 Monaco Film Festival prize for best feature length documentary. As Jewish Israel reported in January 2011, members of the Waller family and their harvesting team sang, danced and acted in the film. The Wallers' image is promently displayed on the official promotional material for the film, from the previews to the posters to the website. The film's publicized promotion and content is unquestionably anti-Semitic.
What we did not report back in January 2011 is that the DVD of the documentary is now on the market with the Wallers gracing the cover. We randomely showed the YesAsia DVD editorial description to the "Jew on the street" and received the following reaction:
"Mel Gibson is a tzadik in our time compared to what's written in this movie's description."
Judge for yourself:
"In the Korean documentary film Restoration, director Kim Jong Chul (acknowledged to be the best expert on Israel in Korea) and narrator Park Ji Yoon (a Christian singer) reveal the plight of the Christian Jews in Israel through interviews with the native Jews. Although Jesus was born in Israel, he is almost eliminated from the Holy Land today. Looking back at the past two millennia, the film explains how the suffering of the Jews in the hands of Christians following their crucifixion of Jesus, culminated in their hatred and revenge towards Christianity throughout history. Today, there are only a little more than 10,000 Messianic Jews (Jewish believers in Jesus) in Israel out of the nation's over 7 million population, and they are sometimes subjected to persecution and violence. The film focuses on the tragic story of Ami, a teenage Messianic Jew in Jerusalem who was seriously injured by a parcel bomb - sent not by radical Palestinian terrorists, but a Jewish extremist organization - in 2008. The documentary attempts to raise international concerns over the situation in Israel and, apparently, rally support for the Restoration of Christianity in Israel. The DVD also includes a 42-minute making-of feature. First Press Limited Edition comes with the bonus Original Soundtrack CD." (YesAsia)
HaYovel Partnering with missionary Dean Bye of Return Ministries
Return Ministries is a Canadian-based christ-centered ministry, associated with Centralia Faith Tabernacle. Directed by Reverend Dean Bye, the ministry enjoys a close relationship with Tommy Waller of HaYovel Ministries and encourages bridge-building between Christians and Jews. However, as Bye preaches the Christian gospel from among the Jewish graves on Mount of Olives, it becomes ever-so clear that what he is striving for is the very antithesis of Judaism.
(Perhaps someone should inform the rabbi and Yeshiva students in Tsfat about Bye and the meaning behind his "one new man" aspirations).
A great deal of Return Ministries'' efforts are ostensibly directed towards promoting North American aliyah. However, the ministry boasts about their facilitating Christian immigration to Israel and assisting and encouraging those who would bring Jews closer to Jesus, as we will see in this report.
Dean Bye stays in close touch with the proselytizing messianic Christian network in Israel and promotes their cause via his Daily Focus videos. Like the Wallers, Bye has advanced the missionary agenda of David Ortiz in Israel. When on tour in Israel, Return Ministries visits messianic friends such as Avner and Rachel Boskey and uses missionary Jakob Damkani's Hotel Gilgal in Tel Aviv for their accommodations.
Bye's Return Ministries promotes the Waller family in videos and newsletters, and has jointly produced a DVD series with Hayovel Ministry. Dean Bye regularly encourages volunteers to join Hayovel in the harvest. In a recently posted Return Ministries "Daily Focus" video, Bye interviews Waller and reports that calls are now going out for 10,000 "believers" to join the Waller harvesting efforts.
In a video interview posted on YouTube on August 2011, Dean Bye introduces Tommy Waller as "one of those foreigners" that according to Isaiah 61 "would tend the fields". Waller makes it clear that his desire is to see "Israel fully restored in every aspect of scripture". Bye goes on to say that he brings his messiah yeshua with him on his mission to serve. And Dean Bye concludes by saying, "we are living in the greatest hour since the resurrection of jesus christ and that's the resurrection of the land of Israel…"
Dean Bye has a good relationship with a number of the residents, farmers and entrepreneurs in the Yehuda and Shomron communities. It is time the Jewish residents in Yehuda and Shomron (and some of their rabbis), who cooperate with Bye and Waller, begin to assess the consequences of their inadvertent participation in activities which are used to challenge the foundations of Judaism and encourage a Christian restoration in Israel. Perhaps it is time that they took a more critical look at the people and motivation behind "Christian Zionist" endeavors and projects which are labeled "pro-Israel".
On May 24th 2011, members of a Return Ministries' "film mission" participated in the harvest in Psagot. The Return Ministries blogsite issued a "Film Tour Update" and included Hayovel in their upcoming plans for centers for aliyah. Excerpt:
"We are now in Psagot, in the biblical heartland of Israel. Ya'akov & Na'ama Berg of Psagot Winery are hosting us … and we are beginning to hear Dean's stories of what God is opening up for Return Ministries and HaYovel as we dream His dreams for bases where Christians and Jews can be together to support North American Aliyah."
Dean Bye's Aliyah dreams are the stuff of Jewish nightmares.
Return Ministries brings Missionaries on Aliyah
Members of the Return Ministries' film tour to Israel also posted about their dinner with missionaries Marty and Sue Shoub who:
"… made Aliyah from British Columbia in 2005 and Return Ministries assisted them through our Project Return matching program. Marty ministers with Tents of Mercy and is a light to many nations. He travels broadly to share the Gospel and to express what the Lord's plan is for Israel and the nations."
Tents of Mercy is a "network of five messianic congregations in the Galilee" which is:
"seeking Israel's salvation through planting indigenous, Hebrew speaking congregations in Yeshua's homeland. We have a special focus on the Galilee and currently have five congregations functioning in the area."
The Shoubs are hardly ashamed of their covert aliyah:
"Within a year of that initial call we were on our way to Israel, not as foreign missionaries but as citizens. In these last days God has promised to gather the Jewish people back from the 4 corners of the world–back to the Land of Israel and back to the King and Messiah of Israel, Yeshua of Nazareth".
Return Ministries brags of their premier missionary couple and makes mention of them via their blogs and newsletters:
"A milestone for our church, which may be the very greatest thing our church has done since its inception, has been to help Marty and Sue to return home to Israel."
Marty Shoub has reciprocated by giving a plug to Return Ministries in at least one church ad and sermon. Whether intentional or not, it is worth noting that in a July 2010 newsletter, Return Ministries juxtaposed a promotion of their aliyah assistance program, Project Return, with an ad for an event featuring their star olim, Marty and Sue Shoub. That says a lot of their intentions and agendas.
Married to a missionary
Inspired by the vision of "One New Man" (see Ephesians 2:15-16), Return Ministries' project, Operation Ignite, sends "A team of Canadian and Israeli youth, on fire for Jesus" on the road to perform bride-of-christ-like productions. Excerpt from Operation Ignite newsletter (Report #10):
"At this particular meeting, our bridegroom Ari and Shayla, his bride, acted out the message of God's jealous love for His bride. Shayla represented Israel and Ari symbolized Jesus…Dean showed through the word that God had to give His bride, Israel, a certificate of divorce because of her unfaithfulness. Further on, he showed that God could not remarry His bride, Israel, as He must keep His own law (Deut. 24:1). However, He is so jealous for His bride that He releases her from the law of marriage, which can only take place by the death of the husband. God chose that Jesus would die so that He could woo His bride again and take her unto Himself (Romans 7:1-4). What an amazing act of love."
Dean Bye's own daughter, Deanna, married one of the Israeli Operation Ignite team members. The romance is hinted at in a description of a skit that was written-up in the September 2008 Operation Ignite newsletter :
"SKIT: Two young Canadian Christian girls on tour providentially meet two young Israeli guys. The girls are typical tourists (everything exaggerated - very giddy girls) but the huge attraction for the girls was seeing prophecy being fulfilled as they spoke with these young guys. Trevor Bye (Dean's son) comes into the scene as a foreigner, hammer in hand, making lots of noise rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem - fulfilling prophecy (Isaiah 60:10). They all shared testimonies and scripture throughout the skit. Lots of laughs as Canadian idiosyncrasies and Israeli traits were exaggerated. It was actually based on the true story of how these two Israeli guys that are traveling with the team (Ariel and Chaim), ended up coming to Canada to be with Return Ministries. Deanna met them in Israel – and the rest is - 'His-story.'"
Dean Bye encouraged Chaim Malespin to return to Israel, where he became a missionary to the Jewish people in Tel Aviv. He and his wife Deanna both attended college at IDC Herzliya. Chaim Malespin can be seen on IDC's campus speaking in a Return Ministries' Daily Focus video about his spiritual pursuits among Israel's prostitutes and the encouragement that Dean Bye and Return Ministries gave him.
[Note: If it makes our Jewish readership feel any better, Chaim Malespin's mother is not Jewish and neither was his grandmother. According to Chaim's sister's testimony atCrown of Messiah Messianic Congregation, it took six years until they were granted citizenship in Israel.]
This "bride of christ" theological theme is popular among "Christian Zionists". Tommy Waller and his family passionately refer to it in newsletters and marriage ceremonies.
According to a Travelujah article, Chinese pilgrims attending last month's ICEJ Feast of the Tabernacles participated in the annual Succot March by parading through Jerusalem in wedding gowns representing "the bride of christ walking on the streets of Zion."
Desecration of a synagogue
If Dean Bye's delivering the gospel over Jewish gravestones on the Mount of Olives didn't disturb you, then perhaps seeing how a synagogue in Eretz Yisrael was transformed into a church, in order to oblige Christian friends, will churn Jewish stomachs.
It seems Return Ministries got to hear the testimony of a Jew turned Christian in the synagogue in Nitzana in the Negev. According to the Return Ministries blog report, it was all pre-arranged for the Christian guests. It appears Dean Bye had a front row seat:
"We had it on our hearts to hear the testimony of how Gisela, an Argentinean Jew who made Aliyah many years ago and is now a volunteer at Nitzana, came to place her faith in Yeshua. Karen Kellerman made it possible for us to meet in Nitzana's Beit Knesset – their synagogue. This was highly unusual but our God is into the 'highly' unusual and we can all attest to the fact that what took place this morning was our High and Holy God doing a marvellous work in His children.
Gisela's story is one of deliverance from deep depression and a life without hope. At her lowest point, she was befriended by our friends Rachel and Avner Boskey who poured their love and the word of God into her. But it was Jolanda Pinchas who helped her through one of the biggest hurdles Jewish people face when considering Yeshua – the divinity of this Man from Galilee and the Trinity – three Persons in one God. All their lives, Jews say the Shema – Hear O Israel the Lord your God is One. How could this Yeshua be God's son and have deity like the Father?
Jolanda took Gisela to Genesis 1:26 to begin her journey: Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness . . ." Then she used the analogy of water and the three states of water: liquid, steam and ice – yet all water, to bring light to the doctrine of the Trinity. Suddenly, something in Gisela's heart opened and the revelation of the power of the blood of Yeshua began to take form. There is much more to the story as this precious woman was besieged by demons for many years, but now, armed with Yeshua within her heart, she began to walk in authority under sound teaching and oversight, and one by one, the demons had to depart from her. She thanked God for the blood of His Son that set her free and encouraged us to appropriate the blood of the Lamb to be rid of any demonic influence in our lives. Dean invited anyone who was troubled in this area, or who had a loved one or friend in bondage, to come forward for prayer.
This synagogue became holy ground as Yeshua ministered freedom to many. The next hour was Image of intercession before the Lord one of chains being broken and prisoners being set free; of secret sins confessed and the blood of Yeshua joyfully claiming His own. God created an environment of His Presence in this place and the enemy had no choice but to flee. How special of the Lord, that in the fullness of time on this tour, He ended our time together in such a precious and powerful way. All glory to our Saviour and Lord!"
That a synagogue in Eretz Yisrael was deliberately used as a forum for a Jew-gone-Christian to publicly testify her faith in jesus qualifies as a chilul Hashem of the highest order.
Jesus in Shiloh
Nitzana is not the only place where Jewish lines are being crossed by Christians. It seems that Yisrael Medad found Jesus in Shiloh. Medad, who works with the Menachem Begin Heritage Center and serves as a foreign media spokesperson for the communities in Yehuda and Shomron, blogged about new archaeological church excavations, which could put Shiloh on the map in a big way – for Christian pilgrims. What is most disturbing is the comparisons Medad draws, when perhaps he should have drawn differentiations instead. Excerpts:
"The connection between Jesus, Shiloh and The Ark of the Covenant is found in several verses in the Torah and in the New Testament:
a)Exodus 25:18 And thou shalt make two angels of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
John 20:12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
b)Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah"
Jesus is the Lion of Judah - Revelation 5:5
But unto the Son a sceptre of righteousness - Hebrews 1:8"
Medad's enthusiasm is most likely not theological in nature. It may derive from his hopes for a possible windfall for Shiloh, his hometown. With the prospect of increased Christian tourism and support, it is unlikely that interested parties in Yehuda and Shomron are going to call for a moratorium on cooperation with evangelical messianics anytime soon. However, rabbis, Jewish community leaders and activists should understand that they are playing with some pretty strange fire. Extreme caution is called for, lest Torah observant Jews break new theological ground, rather than hold Israel's ground in Yehuda and Shomron.
Return Ministries offers us a touch of the passion and worship that foreigners are already bringing to Shiloh:
"SHILOH – We step back in time 3300 years as another wonderful guide, Hillel of Shiloh, leads us to the site where the ark of God stood in Shiloh for 369 years. There are new archaeological discoveries being made every year, all proving the authenticity of the word of God. Hillel and Dean released history and the word and the Schultz girls released worship. Here in this holy place, as we sang "Take me into the Holy of Holies," we each met with the Lord in very personal ways. One participant initially felt so unworthy to be in this holy place till she saw the red petals from the poppies that dot the landscape and was reminded that it was because of the blood of Yeshua that she was made worthy…"
Tommy Waller and Mike Isley: two grapes in a pod
From the halls of the CUFI Summit in Washington, to the Hills of Yehuda and Shomron, to liaison and winery offices, to the pages of a website, Mike Isley and Tommy Waller are united in messianic Christian fellowship.
If Waller wanted to keep his hands clean, save for the soil of Judea and Samaria, he would not be dancing with a man who helped promote a new version of one of the most effective missionary tools used to convert Jews, via one of the most devious Christian messianic organizations: First Fruits of Zion.
(Archive photo: 2010)
If Israel Jewry wants to keep their Torah, land and Jewish faith intact, they will not permit people like Mr. Isley to sit them at tables with Christian missionaries who use the electronic media to spread programs which help Christians and Jews "see Yeshua (Jesus) in the Torah".
If North American Jewry is truly concerned and supportive of Israel, then what is driving them to embrace a missionary who is intent on destroying the very foundations of Judaism and breaching the sacred and respectful partitions between faiths? How can Canadian Jewry allow Reverend Dean Bye, a man who actively strives to establish his lord jesus in our synagogues, cemeteries, Torah institutions and aliyah programs, to lead and sponsor a major, joint Christian-Jewish tour in Israel, a program where Jews and Christians will purportedly pray together? How can respected Diaspora and Israeli rabbinic figures endorse such an endeavor?
With regards to the 2012 Canada Celebrates Israel event, we hope that Canadian Jewish leadership will show the same courage, clarity, strength and foresight that American Jewish leaders demonstrated after discovering that a messianic Jewish leader and organization, which challenges the foundations of Judaism in Israel, was the major sponsor of a Durban 3 protest. American Jewish leaders and organizations withdrew from the event in favor of defending Jewish continuity and the values of Torat Yisrael and Am Yisrael. Our Christian friends must understand that massive amounts of political and humanitarian support must not trump nor trample on Jewish principles and foundations.
Wishful thinking versus facts on the ground
Jewish Israel acknowledges that numbers of gentiles are indeed grappling with a theological shift towards the Noahide movement. Indeed, others are going through a full-fledged spiritual transition toward Judaism. Any of us can entertain the possibility that people such as Tommy Waller and Mike Isley may eventually find the truth in Judaism. However, letting go of jesus, as well as letting go of thinking that they have to bring the Jews to jesus, are not simple matters for any Christian. The great passion that a great many evangelicals feel towards the land of Israel is faith-based, indicative of a desire for a Christian – not a Jewish - restoration in the Land of Israel.
That certain Jewish leaders and activists naively advocate slapping a Jewish prophetic spin on this Christian theological fervor reeks of denial and jeopardizes the entire Jewish nation, including (and perhaps especially) the settlement enterprise in Yehuda and Shomron.
At this rate, a major rectification of the damage being caused may be required before we Jews will merit a Torah-true restoration in the land of Israel.
In light of this report, Jewish Israel respectfully urges Rav Eliezer Melamed to review his psak of September 2011. We feel Rav Melamed was given misleading and incomplete information about Tommy Waller and the missionary intentions of varying "Christian Zionist" evangelical parties.
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November 01, 2006 News & Opinion » News
In the struggle for control of Capitol Hill this year, Rochester matters
By Krestia DeGeorge
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It's a strange feeling.
Here in Upstate New York, we've watched two hotly-contested presidential races unfold elsewhere. By the time we hold our primaries, deep into the national season, the race is usually all but won. And in the general election, Downstate's overwhelming Democratic enrollment advantage means no one bothers to come courting.
So we've grown used to feeling insignificant on the national political stage.
How strange then to suddenly matter. And in such a big way.
Nothing's in the bag, but pundits and political observers are predicting a Democratic victory in the House of Representatives. If that happens, it'll be the first time Democrats have been in control since 1994, when Newt Gingrich and his crusaders stormed Washington brandishing their Contract with America.
To flip control of the House of Representative, Democrats have to pick up 15 seats nationwide. And three of the districts considered in play are in MonroeCounty. Pretty amazing for a county whose population is just slightly larger than that of a single congressional district.
Even two years ago, not much seemed competitive. Jim Walsh, whose 25th district is based in Syracuse but includes Webster, Irondequoit, and part of Penfield, didn't face a major party challenger that year. Newcomer Randy Kuhl romped to an easy victory over Democrat Samara Barend after nasty revelations about Kuhl's divorce records were traced back to one of her campaign aides. Only millionaire Jack Davis --- whose self-funded campaign against House power-broker Tom Reynolds surprised just about everyone --- provided a real race.
This year Davis is back, vowing to spend $2 million of his own money to oust Reynolds. But there are also real races in two of the other three districts in MonroeCounty. Former Pat Moynihan aide and Syracuse television journalist Dan Maffei is taking on Jim Walsh. And in the 29th congressional district, retired Navy Commander Eric Massa is giving Kuhl a serious challenge.
Until the Mark Foley scandal broke, the Kuhl's 29th district was probably the most competitive of the local congressional races. It's tough to tell, because there's been almost no independent polling in the race. The one poll that has been released showed Massa leading by a whopping 12 points --- 52 percent to Kuhl's 40. But that poll was conducted by using an automated method never before employed in House races. It's a touch-tone poll; no live interaction. The Massa campaign is trumpeting the results, and Kuhl's team is writing them off.
"The Majority Watch poll is ridiculous," writes Kuhl campaign spokesperson Bob Van Wicklin in an email. "Their methodology is ridiculous."
Van Wicklin and other doubters cite another district included in the poll. There, the Majority Watch results differed widely from a different independent poll conducted nearly simultaneously.
In any event, it is, after all, just one poll. Either campaign could clear things up by releasing its own internal polls, but by early this week neither had done that --- which signals, if anything, that the race is close.
And polls are just one way to predict an outcome. Another crude but effective way is simply looking at the numbers of voters enrolled in each party. In the 29th district, there are three Republican voters for every two Democrats. Republicans especially dominate in the rural counties in the Southern Tier. Still, there are more than enough independents and third-party voters to swing an election. That's especially true in a year like this, where the war in Iraq, the Jack Abramoff and Duke Cunningham bribery scandals, and the Mark Foley mess have cost Republicans some traction.
There's a real chance, then, that the election could actually be decided on issues. So what are those issues?
For starters, there's the war in Iraq. Massa spent 23 years as an officer in the Navy, which puts him in a perfect position to criticize the war while still supporting the troops. The Kuhl campaign seems to have gambled early on that the best way to confront this apparent advantage was head-on.
Kuhl traveled to Iraq with a delegation of Congressional representatives earlier this year and returned with glowing reports of the putative success of both the United States' military and Iraq's civil structure. It's tough to tell whether that strategy is working with voters in the 29th, but in recent days some Republicans have backed off from the administration's rosy assertions. And even the president has changed tactics --- at least, in how he deals with the press --- by beginning to speak about changing tactics in Iraq.
So far, Kuhl has stayed his own course, defending the war and spinning it as an effort that's going well.
In an impromptu interview following Vice President Dick Cheney's stump speech in Rochester on his behalf, Kuhl echoed the veep's line that fighting terrorists in Iraq is preferable to fighting them here.
"Do I wish the war were over today? Absolutely," he said. "But I'm not about to walk away from the commitment that we've made. I'm not about to see a humanitarian travesty happen in Iraq as a result of our separation at this point."
And he blamed the news media for public malaise over the war.
"If all they [the public] see is what's on the national news as far as what's being reported out of Iraq," he said, "then they don't necessarily understand the full importance of our presence there."
Eric Massa believes he understands the importance of the US presence in Iraq. But he doesn't agree with the Kuhl over what that significance is. The war in Iraq "is making us less safe," says Massa, adding: "By our very presence in Iraq, we are creating the instability that we seek to fight."
Unlike many Democrats, Massa has a concrete plan for Iraq, based on his NATO experience.
"I subscribe to what I call the Bosnian solution," he says. "I believe that we need to allow for the creation of three semi-autonomous, economically viable states. And allow them to create a federated government of their own choosing. We will never be successful creating a democracy at the end of a bayonet. It won't happen."
He hedges only slightly when asked if he'd set a timetable for a withdrawal of American troops.
"You know, if the president said we're leaving today, it would take between six and 18 month for that to happen," he says. "But I can come up with no justification for the presence of large numbers of American military troops in Iraq two years from today."
If Massa's military experience informs his position on the war in Iraq, it does so doubly on the issues of torture and extraordinary rendition. The normally animated candidate becomes even more animated, and also more eloquent, as he lays out his opposition to the arrangement on torture recently agreed upon between Congress and the president.
"The reason we signed the Geneva Conventions was never because we anticipated equal treatment from our enemies," he says. "But we defined ourselves as a people and we defined ourselves as a nation by how we treated those that we imprisoned and incarcerated. We are a nation of laws."
At this point his face is ever so slightly contorted and his voice just discernibly strained, as if by an effort to hold in anger over the issue. But he manages to keep it even.
"We are stronger when those who seek to do us harm are brought to justice in the light of day, not in the dark of night, not without trial, not without writ of habeas corpus," he says. "When you torture a prisoner, the information you received is at best tainted and at worst, much worse. It has no usable military value."
"This all military professionals know," says Massa. "And a very dear friend of mine who was a POW in Viet Nam for over six years is my closest counselor on this topic. He was brutally tortured for months on end, and yet he told me to stand firm against the political expediency of populist legislation that espouses torture for our enemies. It doesn't help us. It hurts us."
Kuhl didn't address the issue of torture directly during Cheney's visit (and subsequent efforts to secure an interview with him failed). But Cheney, speaking at his fundraiser, called the agreement a good one, and Kuhl had nothing but praise for the vice president's address afterwards.
That kind of reliable approval of the administration has (predictably) earned Kuhl the wrath of progressives in the district who see him as moving in lock step with Bush. Massa frequently uses the phrase "rubber-stamp Congress" when discussing his opponent's positions. According to the Capitol Hill magazine Congressional Quarterly, Kuhl voted in favor of bills the president wanted 85 percent of the time. (Of the nine Republican House members from New York, he had second highest score of voting with the president.)
There is one area where Kuhl is willing to defy President Bush, though. It's over the issue of immigration. While Bush has advanced immigration reform that includes a guest-worker program, Kuhl derides that as "amnesty" and takes a hard line against illegal immigration. That stance might make more sense in other parts of the country. But in Kuhl's district, where agriculture is one of the top industries, and where the economy in general is weak, it's more puzzling.
After the Cheney event, he addressed the question of how to balance the needs of farmers (who, according to conventional wisdom, are securely in his base) with his views on immigration.
"The House bill was aimed totally at securing our borders. That's the first step," he said. "There's another step that has to come after that, but you have to deal with the issue of no amnesty within that. The agricultural community probably most notably needs a legitimate workforce. I want to work to see that."
But how do you go about doing that?
"Well, there are several ways you can do it," he said. "Item one is to secure the borders. And then any kind of a, say, enlargement of the visa quotas, [or] some sort of a temporary workforce that you can set up to bring people in: all those are potential ways. Nobody's outlined a way of doing it that's going to be the absolute answer at this point. But yeah, there's a need there, there's no question about it."
There are, of course, plenty of other issues, most of which Kuhl and Massa disagree on: trade policy, foreign policy, health care, energy policy. But it's not hard to predict each man's stance. With the exception of immigration, Kuhl tends to vigorously support the Bush administration. Massa, who mostly holds moderate, centrist positions (his support for universal health care is one notable exception) usually criticizes it.
Massa's centrism shouldn't be a surprise. He was a Republican for years, switching sides only after he became disgusted with the Swift-boating of veterans like John Kerry in the 2004 elections.
"Karl Rove and Tom DeLay corrupted the system in Washington, DC, beyond the ability for Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton to even recognize what we've become. And it's wrong," he says, voice rising.
"I haven't changed, and neither has the American public. I fight for a balanced budget. I fight for the American value of quality health care for all Americans. I fight for jobs in this country for our friends and neighbors. The Republican leadership has abandoned all of those values. And we need to restore them."
The 26th district Congressional race pits another former Republican against a party stalwart.
Jack Davis, a millionaire businessman who's taking on Tom Reynolds, spent most of his life as a conservative Republican. It's not clear whether he's left those beliefs behind.
"Maverick" is a word that gets used to the point of abuse in political reporting. But it's hard to imagine a candidate for whom the tag is more apt.
In the two years since Davis lost to Reynolds, he's been campaigning not for office but against the United States' trade policies. His "Save American Jobs" campaign focuses on preserving the high-wage, high-skilled manufacturing jobs that once built the backbone of the rust-belt economy. There are a lot of reasons for the loss of those kinds of jobs. But Davis pins it on poor trade policies that he says help China and hurt us.
And he rejects notions about the inevitability of globalization.
Asked by City Newspaper whether large-scale shifts in the global economy aren't simply the way the world works, he vehemently disagreed.
"It doesn't have to be," he said. "The government changes the way the world works. Countries for centuries charged tariffs."
Davis wants to bring back "trade-balancing" tariffs, duties that nations charge on imports to protect their own industries.
"We have a trade deficit with every industrializing nation in the world," he says.
Davis talks a lot about trade and jobs and little about anything else. That's made him ripe for criticism that he's a single-issue candidate.
A television reporter for a Buffalo station confronted that question head-on at an impromptu Davis press availability, after a labor event in Rochester. (As with Kuhl and Tom Reynolds, efforts by City Newspaper to set up an interview were unsuccessful.)
Introducing Davis at the press event, Assemblyman Joe Morelle had hailed Davis's "singular focus": jobs and the economy.
"Do you think you have a singular focus?" the reporter asked.
"Oh, definitely not," was the reply. And then Davis proceeded to lecture the press corps about the importance of jobs.
After the event, Davis's press secretary, Curtis Ellis, did his best to spin his boss's response into a strength.
"He's not a single-issue candidate, he's a single-priority candidate," said Ellis.
But Davis might as well be a single-issue candidate and in another sense, he is. Only the issue isn't really jobs and trade; it's a referendum on Republican control of the House.
Davis's opponent has admitted as much. It's Reynolds' job, as head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, to get Republicans elected to the House of Representatives. And from that vantage point, he cast his own race as part of a referendum on his party's performance.
At the height of a fire-and-brimstone stump speech to party faithful in Rochester in October, here's what Reynolds had to say:
"[There is] a lot of talk this year about whether Republicans are going to get trounced across America. [About] what it looks like right in this district. Ladies and gentlemen, this race is about a choice."
"It's a choice," he said, when all elections in Congress are tallied, "if the Republicans are actually running the place when we look at the continuation of where we are in the war on terror. Where we are with North Korea. Where we are on homeland security. Where we are in keeping the economy going."
John McCain, in his telephone address to the audience that day, seconded that assessment, and pointed out the greater symbolic significance of this particular race.
"There's a lot at stake in Tom Reynolds' reelection," he said. "They believe that if they defeat him, then it's much larger than just one Congressional district, because he's one of the foremost leaders of our party in the Congress."
But even if this race is about nothing other than political power in Washington, it's still a singularly interesting one. In keeping with his maverick image, Davis hasn't been out campaigning much. In fact, he's said publicly he dislikes the glad-handing, baby-kissing parts of working a district and would gladly dispense with them if he could. He prefers to be at work in the heating-element factory he operates in Akron, a Buffalo exurb. Still, something in his anti-globalization message must have been resonating in this corner of the rust belt, because he slowly eroded Reynolds lead until a poll at the end of September showed the two in a virtual dead heat.
Then along came Mark Foley.
It's tough to say what this race would've looked like without the revelations about Foley's activities. Or revelations about the actions of GOP leadership, including Reynolds, leading up to the scandal.
A hastily arranged Reynolds press conference and a subsequent tepid mea culpa that aired on television stations in the district seemed only to make matters worse.
The controversial Majority Watch poll, conducted in the scandal's immediate aftermath, showed Davis suddenly leading by an astounding 56 percent to 39 percent. A Zogby poll performed around the same time for the Buffalo News also showed Davis with a healthy edge.
But the Foley scandal may have come too soon to prove fatal to Reynolds. It took place more than a month before election day, giving voters time to forget and the party apparatus time to work. Last week, Buffalo's WGRZ released another poll. This one showed Reynolds with about a 5-point lead over Davis.
If Davis is hard to assess on the issues, so is his opponent. In place of the "issues" page on most campaign websites, Reynolds' site has one titled "Vision." It lists a few specific tax cuts he's for --- eliminating the marriage penalty and the "death tax," for instance. But there's just as much in the way of little-meaning platitudes about like fighting waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid system or fighting to save jobs.
According to Congressional Quarterly's ratings, he voted with the president 80 percent of the time in 2005. In heavily partisan votes, another benchmark the magazine uses to determine independence, he voted with Republicans on 94 percent of bills.
Incumbent Jim Walsh sports similar numbers: he voted with the president 86 percent of the time last year and with his party 92 percent. That conservative record is surprising coming from him, since in his district he has cultivated an image of a moderate. For example, earlier this summer he was in Rochester accepting an award from the Rochester-based Center for Environmental Information. He's played a major role in funding one of the center's cornerstone programs, the Lake Ontario Coastal Initiative.
That's probably prudent, since his district contains more Democrats than do Kuhl's and Reynolds' --- and the district includes the heavily Democratic city of Syracuse. Walsh's Democratic challenger, Dan Maffei, with the help of the state Democratic Party, has tried to highlight that disparity between Walsh's moderate image and conservative voting record. But it's tough to say whether he's succeeded. There's been little independent polling on the race. The Majority Watch Poll that predicted a wave of Democrats in Upstate districts had Maffei leading by 8 percentage points --- somewhat less than the lead it gave Dems in other districts. And a Zogby poll commissioned by the Syracuse Post-Standard was scrapped after errors were discovered.
The fickle nature of polls --- and voters, for that matter --- means it's too soon to predict the outcome of this year's midterms. But that hasn't stopped plenty of people from doing it anyway. One of them is the National Journal's Chuck Todd, whose House Race Rankings are arguably the most read and discussed, by Washington watchers. In his October 23 update, Todd opened his roundup this way:
"It now looks as if the Democrats are poised to win the 15 seats they need to win control of Congress."
That may or may not be the case: Reynolds' district is among Todd's top 15 tightest races. But assuming he's right, what would a Democratic majority in the House mean for this area?
For starters, it would mean the ascendancy of Louise Slaughter. The representative of the 28th district is dean of the local delegation and one of the most liberal-voting members of Congress. (Yes, Slaughter has a nominal challenger: Tonawanda Councilmember John Donnelly. But here's an indication of how little even Republicans think of the race: Reynolds, who's the man most in charge of electing Republicans to the House, held his own fundraiser in the 28th district, but neglected to even mention him.)
If the Democrats take control of the House, Slaughter's seniority will pay big dividends. She would become the first woman in the nation's history to chair the House Rules Committee. That may sound boring, but the committee deals with the kind of procedural details that mean the difference between a truly open democracy and a caricature of one.
Democrats have been complaining about underhanded rules practices in the House for years. If they win, they'd have a chance to do something about it, and Slaughter would be the woman to do it. While ranking minority member on the committee, she compiled a nearly 150-page tome on the subject, with the only slightly portentous title "The Death of Deliberative Democracy."
"A Democratically controlled Rules Committee will mean a more open, transparent, and fair legislative process in the House of Representatives," Slaughter said in an e-mail to City Newspaper. "That means cutting off the closed-door dealings which have permitted corruption to define this Congress."
Beyond Slaughter's ascendancy, a lot about what a Democratic House looks like from Rochester's perspective would depend on who gets elected. But at least one candidate's already given it some thought.
"You know, Rochester was carved into four congressional districts trying to make sure that no Democrat would ever enjoy a safe seat," says Eric Massa. "But this year we're going to elect four Democrats. And for a city the size of Rochester to send its own Congressional caucus is very, very exciting. The much increased clout politically in Washington, DC, of the Rochester Congressional delegation is going to pay significant benefits not only for MonroeCounty but for the entire region."
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Those measures, Mr. Hu said, should be centered on developing cultural products that can draw the interest of the Chinese and meet the "growing spiritual and cultural demands of the people." Chinese leaders have long lamented the fact that Western expressions of popular culture and art seem to overshadow those from China. The top-grossing films in China have been "Avatar" and "Transformers 3," and the music of Lady Gaga is as popular here as that of any that of any Chinese pop singer. In October, at the 6th plenum of the party's Central Committee, where Mr. Hu gave his speech, officials discussed the need for bolstering the "cultural security" of China.
Update: Rogier Creemers has translated the full article by Hu Jintao on his blog, China Copyright and Media.


As another year comes to a close we warmly invite our members to join us to celebrate our eighth anniversary.
An opportunity to enjoy the company of the Club's members and also a great night to introduce friends and colleagues who are interested in joining, so please bring a guest.
Complimentary drinks will be available courtesy of our generous sponsors, Chivas. A set menu will be offered in the restaurant from 5.30-8pm or from 9pm, view the menu here. Space is limited so please indicate when booking if you would like to dine and at what time.
During the evening there will be a presentation of the Frontline Journalism Awards recognising excellence in journalism, which for the first time have been nominated by Frontline Club members. The Awards are sponsored by Canon. An auction will also be held in aid of the Fixers' Fund.
The Frontline Club Award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding body of work or series of contributions over a one-year period. Work nominated for the Frontline Club Award should be for the period 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011.
The Memorial Tribute Award is given in honour of front line journalists killed in the course of their work and can be awarded to recognise lifetime achievements or work that has not received the acclaim it deserves.


Please help improve it by adding dated informations, images and videos about John Malkovich.
He was a member of a folk/rock musical trio, and was a member of a local summer theater/comedy project in Benton, Illinois in 1972, where he co-starred in Jean-Claude Van Itallie's America Hurrah.
In 1976, Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago .
Malkovich was married to actress Glenne Headly from 1982 to 1988.
He made his feature film debut in 1984, as Sally Field's blind boarder Mr. Will in Places in the Heart; for his portrayal of Mr. Will, Malkovich received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Malkovich won an Emmy Award for this role when the play was adapted for television by CBS in 1985.
Steven Spielberg - In 1987, as China began opening to Western capital investment, Spielberg shot the first American film in Shanghai since the 1930s, an adaptation of J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, starring John Malkovich and a young Christian Bale.
A few years later, Malkovich became a star when he portrayed the sinister and sensual Valmont in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons.
He later met his long-term partner Nicoletta Peyran on the set of The Sheltering Sky where she was the second assistant director, in 1989.
Malkovich starred in the 1992 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's award-winning novella Of Mice and Men as Lennie alongside Gary Sinise as George.
Clint Eastwood - Eastwood played Frank Horrigan in the Secret Service thriller In the Line of Fire directed by Wolfgang Petersen and co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo.
In 1994, he was nominated for another Oscar, in the same category, for In the Line of Fire.
In a 2002 appearance at the Cambridge, Massachusetts Union Society, when asked whom he would most like to "fight to the death", Malkovich replied that he would "rather just shoot" journalist Robert Fisk and British MP George Galloway.
The Dancer Upstairs, Malkovich's directorial film debut, was released in 2002.
Javier Bardem - Instead, in 2002, Bardem starred in John Malkovich's directorial debut, "The Dancer Upstairs"
He and his family left France in a dispute over taxes in 2003, and since he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Talleyrand - For his performance John Malkovich was nominated for an Emmy in 2003 as "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie"
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord - For his performance John Malkovich was nominated for an Emmy in 2003 as "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie"
Malkovich lost millions to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme when it collapsed in 2008.
In November 2009, Malkovich appeared in an advertisement for Nespresso with fellow actor George Clooney.
Audrey Wasilewski - Most recently in the 2010 feature film "RED", Wasilewski appeared in a cameo alongside Bruce Willis and John Malkovich in which she played a "gun for hire" sent to assassinate them, her character had a swift exit after calling Marvin Boggs an "old man"
In 2011, Malkovich directed Julian Sands in "A Celebration of Harold Pinter" in the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Malkovich stated in a 2011 interview that "I'm not a political person actually, and I don't have an ideology.
Glenn Close - In 2017, Close will be reunited with actors John Malkovich , and Patrick Stewart in the romantic comedy "Wilde Wedding"
Being John Malkovich - Regarding his video about the theory in the January 2018 issue of "Empire", Peele expressed interest in casting John Malkovich in a "Get Out" sequel, stating that it would be "cool" to "do the full trilogy"


WhatsApp's had an open beta program for its Android and Windows Phone apps for years now, allowing people to chime in with bug reports while trying out the latest features ahead of anyone else. iPhone owners have largely been left out of this process since the company has restricted testers to a very small pool of users.
This ends now, with WABetaInfo reporting that WhatsApp has opened its own official beta program for iOS. Anyone can join, but slots are limited. If you're thinking of joining, it would be better to do so as quickly as possible. To get started, you'll have to download the TestFlight app from the App Store.
Once TestFlight gets installed, you have to go here to request a slot in WhatsApp's iPhone beta program. Once you've done this, you'll get redirected to TestFlight. The page will ask you to accept the terms and conditions for joining the WhatsApp beta build, following which you can set up the app on your iPhone.
Note that when you install the WhatsApp for iOS beta, a pop-up will ask you if you want to replace the current app version with the test version. It'll also warn you that you might lose the app's data. WABetaInfo says your information is safe and won't get deleted, but it's best to back up all your chats just in case.
In fact, it would be a good idea to constantly back up WhatsApp data since beta software is generally volatile. Anything can go wrong with experimental builds, so it's best to be prepared. The beta app typically gets updated once every two days.
As a beta tester, it'll be your job to report any irregularities. You can do so by going to Contact Us within WhatsApp Settings. The page will ask you to describe your problem and attach a screenshot.


Have you ever played a tag game? Sure, we all did as kids! But what about an adult version for card makers? Now I'm talkin' right!!! That's exactly what we did at the end of last week over at StampNation.
All of the participants were assigned to a team randomly. The first person on each team received a link to a card in the StampNation Gallery. That person had 48 hours to create a card that CASEs the linked/photograph of the card they are assigned. Once that person had CASEd that card, they emailed a photo of their completed card to Ally and she passed it along to the next person in line on their team via email. It continues on down each list of participants on their team.
What you wind up with at the end of the game is a CASE of a CASE of a CASE...you get the idea.
The card above was my submission to the game. Since I had Pretty Peonies out from my Throwback Thursday projects, I decided to use it again (I love that set!). I pulled the colors and use of a die cut as a focal point from the card I was given to CASE. This is one of my favorite colors combos. I don't use it much during the Winter season, so it was fun to use them on my card.
We do so many fun things like this at StampNation. If you haven't joined yet, you should!
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This is beautiful Maureen I love the colors and those pretty flowers!
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Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee
mar 29, 2021 | Beata Ciupińska
On March 10, 2021, Dr. McCullough, who is a great supporter of the early implementation of covid treatment, the same as Włodzimierz Bodnar in Poland, spoke at the meeting of the Senate Health Committee in Texas. Dr. McCullough and his team have developed a covid outpatient care guide for patients. Please find below the entire transcription of Dr. McCullough testimony.
Dr. Peter McCullough: Good afternoon, I'm dr Peter McCullough. I'm an internist and cardiologist and professor of medicine at Texas University School of Medicine. I'm on Baylor Dallas Campus and I've been integrally involved in the response to covid-19.
Now, the opinions I'll express are those of my own and not necessarily those of my institution. I can tell you that in my field I'm an academic doctor, I see patients but I'm very involved in the research. I'm an editor of two major journals. In my field I'm the most published person in my field which deals with the heart and the kidneys in the world in history.
And when covid-19 hit I saw it as a medical super bowl. And there were going to be doctors like dr Urso coming out of wherever they worked to face the virus and there were doctors in the hospital that just had to receive the virus and then there were those who headed for the sidelines and there were those that were detractors against the pandemic. And so, as I started to survey the literature, I had patients with heart and lung disease who needed an urgent treatment and I refused to let an illness which lasted for two weeks at home before they got sick enough to be hospitalised, I refused to let a patient to languish at home with no treatment and then be hospitalised when it was too late. It was obvious, that was obvious in April that that was the case. So I used the best tools or drugs available at the time and these are appropriately prescribed off label, remember a label is an advertising label, a label isn't a scientific document, sure, it's there, there is an appropriately prescribed off-label use of conventional medicine to treat an illness and I, in May, I put together a team of doctors because the group that was facing the pandemic to the greatest degree was in Milan, Italy so most of them were in the coracle Italian research network. We summarised all we knew about the available drugs and we published our finding in the August in 8th issue of The American Journal of Medicine and the title of that paper was The Pathophysiologic Basis And Rationale For Early Ambulatory Treatment and it had a premise there's two bad outcomes to covit-19: hospitalisation and death.
The second premise if we don't do something before the hospitalisation we can never stop it. We can never stop it. And I have to tell you, when I was a lead author in that paper but we had dozens of authors from Italy, India, UCLA, Emory and we had the best institutions in the United States. I can tell you, the interesting thing was 50 000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on covid, not a single one told the doctor how to treat it. Not a single one! When did that happen?
I was absolutely stunned and when this paper was published in American Journal of Medicine it became a lightning rod, oh my gosh, it became the most cited paper in basically all of medicine at that time. The world started, and boy, the world started knocking down on my door, and I said, oh my lord, I just can't believe what became untapped.
And, uhm, I had never been on social media before and my daughter who was home from law school was talking to her about it, she said, well, why don't I make a youtube video. So I made a youtube video with four slides from the paper. This is a peer-reviewed paper published in one of the best medical journals in the world. Four slides! I ever wore a tie in a suit and she showed me how to record it in powerpoint and I posted on Youtube. It went absolutely viral. And within about a week Youtube said you violated the terms of, uhm, the community. And that's when senator Johnson's office got involved in Washington, said, oh my gosh, this is important scientific information to help patients in the middle of this crisis and social media is striking it down, based on what authority?
Well, one thing led to another, uhm and I became a lead witness for the US Senate Testimony of November 19, 2020. And the reason why there was Senate Testimony is because there was a near total block on any information of treatment to patients. A near total block.
And so what had happened over time is that we had gotten into a circle in America of no information on treatment. Patients actually think that the virus is untreatable and so what happens is they go out to get a diagnosis. Now, I'm a covid survivor, my wife in the galley is a covid survivor. My father in a nursing home is a covid survivor. You get handed a diagnostic test, it's says, here you're covid positive, go home. Is there any treatment? No. Is there any resource I can call? No. Any referral lines, hotlines? No. Any research hotlines? No.
That's the standard of care in the United States. And if we go to any of our testing centres today in the, in Texas, I bet, that's the standard of care. I bet that's the standard of care. No wonder we have had 45 000 deaths in Texas. The average person in Texas thinks there's no treatment. They honestly think there's no treatment. They don't even know about these EUA antibodies you heard from a 90-year-old gentleman who got a bamlanivimab, terrific. Where's the focus? There's such a focus on the vaccine where's the focus on people sick right now?
This committee ought to know where all these monoclonal antibodies are they ought to know where all the treatment protocols are. They ought to have a list of the treatment centers in Texas that actually treat patients with covid-19. So I lead the initiative, the second paper was published in a dedicated issue of reviews in cardiovascular medicine, now I had 57 authors including dr Urso, dr Emanuel, uh, lead doctors in Houston, San Antonio, all over and it was another worldwide paper, and now we have it updated integrated. So yes, we used drugs to affect viral replication the antibodies are terrific. We can use intracellular anti-infectives in that box. We used corticosteroids and inflammatory drugs. The best anti-inflammatory drug is colchicine. You've probably never heard about it, in the largest, highest quality randomized trial, over 4 000 patients, double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, there's a 50% reduction in mortality. No word of it! None! Complete block to anybody culture scene.
How can that be? How can that be? And then, the most deadly part of the viral infection is thrombosis. So I have always treated my patients with something to treat the virus, something to treat inflammation and something to treat thrombosis, just as dr Urso had. And I had very, very sick patients and I've lost two. But I have to tell you, what has gone on has been beyond believe.
How many of you have turned on a local news station or a national cable news station and ever gotten an update on treatment at home? How many of you have ever gotten a single word about what to do when you get handed the diagnosis of covid-19?
No wonder. That is a complete and total failure at every level. Okey, let's take the White House, how come we didn't have a panel of doctors assigned to put all their efforts and stop these hospitalisations? Why don't we have doctors who actually treated patients get together in a group and every week give us an update? Why didn't we have that? Why didn't we have that at the state level? Zero!
Why don't we have any reports about how many patients were treated in spared hospitalisation? From all that I listened to six hours of testimony today. Zero! Zero! We have a complete total blank spot on treatment! It is a blanking phenomenon!
At least in the United States there's some heroes now, the American Society of Physician and Surgeons took the lead. They're the group, they've identified 35 treatment centres in Texas. They know who they are. They have emergency hotlines. They helped dr Hall put together this very brief pamphlet but there's more an extensive one we can pass it around to everyone. That at least gives people half a chance to find out about information. Okey?
This is a complete and total travesty to have a fatal disease and not treat it. Now, the National Institutes of Health and the Infectious Disease Design of America started putting out guidelines in the treatment of covid-19 and to this date they nearly exclusively deal with a hospitalised patients.
The two papers that I have published as the lead author, and supported by wonderful people, by dr Urso, are the only publications in the peer-reviewed literature that tell doctors how to treat covid-19 as an outpatient, based on the support of scientific information. The only two.
The home treatment guide by the American Physicians and Surgeons is the only source of information available to patients on how to treat covid-19 at home, the only source.
So what can be done right here, right now? There's going to be more people that die in Texas and it's an absolute tragedy. How about tomorrow, let's have a law that says, there's not a single result giving out without a treatment guide and without a hotline of how to get into research. Let's put a staffer on this and find out all the research available in Texas and let's not have a single person go home with a test result, with a fatal diagnosis, sitting at home going into two weeks of despair before they succumb to hospitalisation and death.
It is unimaginable in America that we can have such a complete and total blind spot. I blame the doctors for not stepping up. Where was the medical society stopping up and putting effort on this? How about from the federal and state agencies? There never was a single bit of group collaborative effort to stop the hospitalisations. Nobody even kind of thought about it. Bob Hall had me on a teleconference in April or May and we're like… wait a minute, how come where's the UT Southwestern. I'm a graduate of the UT Southwestern. Where's the ANM, where's the rest of the universities? How come we're not stopping this? How come we're not stopping this? But it get's worse because in the paper I published in December of 2020, you know, what he did, I had a terrific dr from Brazil. We went through country by country by country and just asked the question, what are the other countries doing? When was the last time you turned on the news and ever got a window to the outside world? When did you ever get an update about how the rest of the world is handling covid? Never!
What's happened in this pandemic is the world has closed on us. There's only one doctor whose face is on tv now. One! Not a panel! Doctors, we always work in groups, we always have different opinions. There's not a single media doctor on tv who's ever treated a covid patient. Not a single one. There's not a single person in the White House task force how has ever treated a patient. Why don't we do something, both, why don't we put together a panel of doctors that have actually treated outpatients of covid-19 and get them together for a meeting and why don't we exchange ideas. And why don't we say how we can finish the pandemic strongly.
Isn't it amazing? Think about this. Think about the complete and total blind spot. So what happened? I can tell you what happened. What happened in around May it became known that the virus was going to be amenable to a vaccine. All efforts on treatment were dropped. The National Institutes of Health actually had a multi-drug program. They dropped it after 20 patients, said, we can't find the patients. The most disingenuous announcement of all time and then world speed went full tilt for vaccine development and there was silencing of any information on treatment. Any! Silencing! Scrubbed from Twitter, Youtube! Can't get papers published on this. You can't, we can't even get information out in our own medical literature on this. There's been a complete scrubbing so this program has been one of try to reduce the spread of the virus and wait for a vaccine and when we, when we vaccinate all efforts have to be on vaccination and probably, I heard 4 hours of vaccination on here.
Think about it as we sit here today, the calculations in Texas on herd immunity. The calculations are we're at eighty percent herd immunity right now with no vaccine effect. Eighty percent! And more people are developing covid today. They're gonna become immune. People who develop covid have complete and durable immunity. And a very important principle, complete and durable immunity. You can't beat natural immunity. You can't vaccinate on top of it and make it better. There's no scientific, clinical or safety rationale for ever vaccinating a recovered patient. There's no rationale for ever testing a covid recovered patient. My wife and I are covid recovered, why do we go through the testing outside? There's absolutely no rationale.
I'd encourage this committee to actually look at what's being done and ask is there any rationale? Is there any rationale for anything?
Listen! There's plenty of covid recovered patients, let's them forgo the vaccine and let people who are clamouring for it get it. But at 80% herd immunity in the vaccine trials fewer than one percent in the vaccine and the placebo actually get covid. Fewer than one percent. The vaccine is going to have a one percent public health impact. That's what the data says.
It's not going to save us. We're already 80% herd immune. If we're strategically targeted, we can actually close out the pandemic very well with the vaccine but strategically targeted. People under 50 who fundamentally have no health risks, there is no scientific rationale for them to ever become vaccinated. There's no scientific rationale.
One of the mistakes I heard today as a rationale for vaccination as asymptomatic spread and I want you to be very clear about this. My opinion is, there is a low degree if any of asymptomatic spread. Sick person gives it to sick person. The Chinese have published a study, British Medical Journal, 11 million people, that tried to find asymptomatic spread, you can't find it. And that's been, you know, one of important pieces of misinformation.
When senator Hall called a conference call what should we do in the capitol when we re-open I said, you know what, you know what we do at Baylor? You walk in, and they zap your temperature, you got a temperature check and go in. I mean, do we test everybody who walks in the Baylor Hospital? No. Are they a lot sicker than everybody in this room? You better believe it.
So why would we do something here at the capitol that has absolutely positively no scientific rationale? And then do it in this context.
So my testimony as I said here today is covid-19 has always been a treatable illness. A very large study from McKinney Texas, another one from New York City show that when doctors treat patients early who are over age 50 with medical problems, with a sequence multi-drug approach with the available drugs, uh, four to six drugs that available, to them, now, the monoclonal antibodies are better. There's an 85% reduction in hospitalisation and death. 85%! 85%! I want you to remember that number 85%.
We have over 500 000 deaths in the United States. The preventable fraction could have been as high as 85% if, our pandemic response would have been laser focused on the problem, the sick patient right in front of us. We're focused over here and focused over there and focused on masks. What have you… Laser focused on sick patient, treat them, we lost focus on most fundamental thing.
Senator Lois Winkelmann Kolkhorst: Doctor…
Dr. Peter McCullough: That's my testimony
Senator Lois Winkelmann Kolkhorst: Yeah, thank you, I can tell how passionate you are and certainly have been a leader in talking about preventive protocols and also the ambulatory stage and I do think, that that has been missing and it's been a concern because covid-19 is going to be with us, right? I mean it's, uh, you know, I hope we're at 80% herd immunity. I don't know yet. I'll read your papers, but, uhm, I appreciate that and the message is that there are drugs out there that work. There are therapies out there that work.
Dr. Peter McCullough: But no single one works alone and so the, the, the dismissive mistake was to do a very small study, oh, we studied 200 patients and we used ivory hydroxychloroquine and it didn't work, that's like cancer and picking up one drug and saying, oh, it doesn't reduce cancer mortality. We never do it in cancer, we never did that in AIDS, we don't do it in hepatitis C. What we look for is signals of benefit and acceptable safety and we combine them. And that's all what we've done so, but, but there's independent declaration drug by drug, that drugs don't work, has been, uh, and that's on, that's on us. That's been our medical house. That's been a, a giant, uhm, error that we've made on our side. We never should have expected single drugs to reduce mortality but drugs in combination against a fatal viral infection we should have.
Senator Lois Winkelmann Kolkhorst: This entire session is less, learned from lessons. I know, we're running shot on time, uh, Sir Hall, you have one question or …
Senator Bob Hall: Real quick, uhm, I'd ask the question earlier when dr Hellestad was here about the idea that fits in with what you've talked about is that when we test someone rather than just say, give them, yep, you're positive, you're negative, be on your way. That we at least provide them information of what we know out there, can be, can be used. Not trying to play the role of doctor out there. Would you, do you agree with dr Hellestadt's interpretation that, that should not be done because it's setting up a doctor-patient relationship and simply informing people or providing with, with over-the-counter drugs that, so that we could possibly have the early treatments for these folks rather than wait till they show up in the hospital?
Dr. Peter McCullough: We could at least have a physician group approved a guide that AAPS guide has been used in over 500 000 cases in the United States. In fact, the early treatment is probably what prevented us from overflowing the hospitals in the last quarter of the year. I, when, I testified, I said, listen, we're on track, and I was very convinced of this. We're on track of overflowing our hospitals, our break point was 135 000 in the hospitals United States we hit 128.
Now, the curve started going down long before the vaccine. So I can tell you, herd immunity, long before the vaccine showed up started to go down but the early treatment kicked up ivermectin, skyrocketed, hydroxychloroquine, monoclonal antibodies. As much as we can push them sadly the monoclonal antibodies are still sitting on the shelf in a lot of places. But committees like this ought to be saying, listen, where are those monoclonal antibodies? Are, do we stock them at the nursing homes? What are the big nursing home chains? What are the big urging care chains in Texas and what are doing? What are their early treatment protocols?
You know, these are blank spots. I bet nobody here has even thought about this. This is, this is really low hanging fruit that we can, uh, we can tackle, the bottom line is a lot of doctors have checked out and when patients call them, they say, I don't treat covid. And when I asked those doctors, I said, you don't treat covid? How come? They go, well, there is no treatment. I said, but do you, do you call them two days later to see how they're doing? No. So what's that? That's not, that's not I don't treat covid. That's I don't care anymore. That's a loss of compassion.
So we have a crisis of compassion in our country in the medical field. That's in our house right now. But for every doctor that's ever told a patient that they don't treat covid, okey but then they call them two days later and help them get oxygen or see how they're doing. If the answer is no, that, that's the Hippocratic oath going out and that's on us. And I'm telling you we have a real self-check to do, uh, in the house of medicine.
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President Salih: Our national forces should be united, and it is a matter of great importance to place the country's high interest above political ambitions or other considerations, and it is vital to keep democratic process on track
On Monday, October 18, 2021, the President of the Republic of Iraq, Barham Salih congratulated Iraqi people on the Occasion of the Prophet Mohammad birthday.
It is of great occasion to inspire the noble values and to learn the lessons that should be taken from fragrant biography of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in making peace, fraternity and brotherhood among human beings, Iraqi President Salih said.
Iraq is going through a critical juncture, and enormous challenges and major national tasks are still ahead of us, he underscored.
President Salih emphasized that there is an urgent need for bringing our national position together, and dialogue should be prevailed on the basis of accepting the other, and the country's interest should be taken as precedence above any political ambitions or other considerations.
Furthermore, we have to step up our collective efforts to carry out our national tasks and to meet Iraqi people's aspiration to live a life of freedom and dignity, he added.
The respect for the will of the Iraqi people, for the constitutional process and for the democratic and peaceful path in the country is national duty, and challenging the results of the elections is a right guaranteed by the Iraqi Constitution and electoral laws and regulations, Iraqi President Salih said.
Moreover, legal frameworks of peaceful negotiations should be taken in these matters, and public security and public property should be maintained, while peace and security in the country should be promoted, he underlined.
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Iraqi National Leaders Assert Improving State Regulation of Weapons in the Country, Protecting of Diplomatic Missions and Responding to the Lawlessness Acts Which Harm the Security and Sovereignty of the Country
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