Like We Needed Nuch A Putz With No Sechel!

 

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Science, math are nonsense, study in yeshiva instead

 

The chief rabbi spoke proudly of not finishing school or having a high school diploma, and said learning Torah was far more important.

Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at a Remembrance Day 2021 Ceremony

 

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef described Israel’s school core curriculum studies program as “nonsense” and said pupils should study in yeshivas instead where only religious studies are taught.

 

Yosef’s comments sparked criticism toward the Sephardi chief rabbi, who was accused of promoting dependence on government handouts and charitable donations instead of advancing self-reliance.

“There is nothing like the holy Torah, the Torah is above everything,” said Yosef in a recent synagogue address, first reported by the Kikar Shabbat news website.

 

“If a pupil is asked where do you want to go, a yeshiva high school [where religious studies are taught together with the core curriculum] or a holy yeshiva, there is no doubt, a holy yeshiva, there is no doubt,” declared the chief rabbi.

 

“There they learn Torah without secular subjects, without the core curriculum, without all this nonsense, they sit and learn.”

 

Added Yosef proudly, I myself, did I learn the core curriculum? Did I finish school? Until today I don’t have a graduation certificate, not a high-school diploma and not a graduation certificate, did I miss anything? It’s nonsense, the most important thing is our holy Torah.

 

The large majority of ultra-Orthodox boys do not study the core curriculum of math, English, science and computer studies at elementary school level, and the overwhelming majority do not study this curriculum at high-school level.

 

Socioeconomic experts have warned that this failure to provide a basic education to boys in the ultra-Orthodox sector combined with the high rate of population growth in this community means that Israel’s economy will be imperiled in coming centuries with an inadequate workforce for the 21st century.

 

The Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah (NTA) organization panned Yosef’s comments saying that his “disparagement of yeshiva high schools is testament to how the chief rabbi is out of touch with the broader community that he is supposed to serve.

 

The organization said Yosef had turned himself into the rabbi of a small group of people “who withhold from themselves and their children the possibility of getting an education and earning an income with dignity, and [instead] making them dependent on donations and cronyism.”

 

NTA said that Yosef’s comments demonstrated the need to drastically change the system of electing chief rabbis in order to reduce political influence and increase public influence over the manner in which the positions are elections. 

 

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Two major Israeli haredi Orthodox rabbis said everyone aged 12 and over should be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to The Jerusalem Post.

 

Major Orthodox rabbis in Israel say everyone 12 and up should be vaccinated

June 29, 2021 9:49 am

Eretz Nehederet, an Israeli satire show, aired a sketch on Jan. 27, 2021 portraying Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a top haredi leader in Israel, as controlling the Israeli government's lockdown enforcement. (Screenshot from Channel 12)

(JTA) — Two major Israeli haredi Orthodox rabbis said everyone aged 12 and over should be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the influential leader known as the “prince of Torah,” and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein approved the announcement in a message printed by Kanievsky’s personal physician, Meshulam Hart, in Yated Neeman, an Israeli haredi Orthodox newspaper. The announcement comes as Israel struggles with an increase in coronavirus cases as a result of the more contagious Delta variant.

The rabbis said everyone should be vaccinated both to prevent further deaths from the virus and to prevent additional closures of yeshivas by the government.

Though Kanievsky has consistently come out in favor of the vaccines, his varying directives to Israel’s haredi school system during the height of the pandemic made him a polarizing figure. At times, Kanievsky said the yeshivas should not close even as government officials ordered all schools shut to slow the spread of the virus. Kanievsky was even depicted on Eretz Nehederet, an Israeli sketch comedy show, as the real prime minister rather than the then-prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

The haredi Orthodox community in Israel was among the hardest hit by the virus in the country, with one in 73 haredi Israelis over age 65 dying from the coronavirus during the first year of the pandemic, according to one report.

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This Post Was Taken From VIN News - Substitute out Levin, Ben-Gurion, Reform Rabbis and insert Kushners (Plural) and the Fraudulent Conversion by Hershel Schachter

 

(Tanḥuma, Balak 10):

אף על פי שמשתבח אותו רשע ואומר ויודע דעת עליון פיו העיד בו ואמר לא ידעתי

Open Letter To ‘Proudly Jewish’ Rep. Andy Levin, Married To Gentile, Who Thinks Judaism Is A Culture

NEW YORK— In 1958, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, sent a letter to 51 Jewish intellectuals asking their opinion on how to identify who is a Jew.

Ben Gurion had both a personal and political interest in the question. In 1946, Ben Gurion’s son Amos, then serving in the British Army in Europe, married Mary Callow, a young Christian woman from the Isle of Man. Amos Ben-Gurion was wounded in battle; Mary Callow was his nurse in the British Army hospital in which he spent several months recovering. Before the wedding, Amos had consulted with his parents. His mother, Paula, objected to her son’s marriage to a non-Jew and asked her husband to “talk Amos out of it.” Ben-Gurion met with the bride and decided instead to find a way to convert her via a Reform rabbi visiting London, who quickly performed the conversion.

Ben-Gurion may have overcome his wife’s objections but realized that he had alienated the orthodox establishment irrevocably by recognizing other forms of Judaism. The question of identity loomed much larger after the Knesset passed the Law of Return in 1950. Ben-Gurion intended the law, which grants immediate citizenship to people of Jewish ancestry, to be as inclusive as possible, even allowing for gentiles married to Jews to gain citizenship. After Ben-Gurion’s approach was fiercely opposed by many other groups, he decided to send his letter.

The responses to Ben-Gurion’s letter were varied but 38 of the 46 responses Ben-Gurion received, even from secular scholars, called for following halachic Jewish law in registering Jews in Israel. For the orthodox scholars this was not even a legitimate question. Rabbi Aaron Kotler, founder of the Lakewood Yeshiva, opened his letter to Ben-Gurion in this way: “I am amazed at the fact that a question considering the purity and integrity of the Jewish people, whose preservation is the basis of our existence, should be posed as if it required some other solution or opinion from me. The question has a simple and explicit answer in the Holy Torah. … It is clear that a Jew is only someone who is a Jew according to the law of the Torah.”

While Ben-Gurion may have entertained hopes of establishing a “new Jew” in Israel who was not bound by halacha both in his personal life and in his choice of spouse, he realized that he would effectively be creating two nations within the fledgling state and stopped short of recognizing secular conversions or gentile spouses for the purpose of registering citizenship. Both of these were added later to the existing law, the former being adopted by Israel’ supreme court just a few months ago, raising concerns about future Jewish unity within Israel.

For many American Jews however, the question of their Jewish identity has never even been a troublesome dilemma. For them, Judaism is chicken soup and cheesecake, matzoh and gefilte fish, with a little celebration of festivals to add flavor. Anyone willing to sign on the dotted line stating he is Jewish will be happily accepted by numerous Reform, Conservative or Reconstructionist communal leaders who lead “culturally” Jewish communities, while his children could study in parochial Jewish schools and proudly identify as Jews.

One such proud Jew unfazed by Jewish identity issues is Rep. Andy Levin (D.-Michigan), a recent addition to Congress who identifies as a Reconstructionist. In a recent Haaretz interview, Levin stated that for him Judaism is “not just a religion. We’re a people, a culture, a food, a language, a history.” Levin is most concerned about one religious imperative: that of embracing the stranger, although somewhat patronizingly he believes that the stranger we most need to embrace is the Palestinians:

“Jews are great at the stranger who’s the immigrant or the African-American,” Levin claims. “We have to dwell on our most challenging stranger. I insist we can coexist. How amazing could that new chapter be if we see each other as human beings?”

True to his own beliefs, Levin embraces Rep. Ilhan Omar despite her recently equating Israel with the Taliban and Hamas. For Levin, this is merely a “call for accountability” for human rights abuses which he claims Israel and the US are evading by not submitting to ICC jurisdiction. “The one thing I cannot accept is assuming the U.S. or Israel are above accountability,” Levin asserts but for some reason omits a call for Palestinian accountability over firing rockets on civilian targets, payments to terrorists who slay and murder Israeli citizens and educating their children to become martyrs by killing Jews.

However if Levin is demanding a call for accountability, he should first demand it from himself. Claiming that Judaism is a religion means that it has a mandate of requirements for an individual, otherwise there can be no religious demand to embrace strangers. Among those mandates are Shabbat, Kashrut, family purity and Tefillin. Levin however would eschew a religion demanding any obligations from its adherents.

 

Josh Kushner & His Rebbetzin

 

 

If he had troubled to study the Torah, the body of laws which comprises those eternal, immutable obligations, he would have found that the stranger mentioned in context with love is one who accepts the seven Noachide laws which proscribe murder, theft and illicit laws – surely not the Palestinians who engage daily in land theft, encourage murder of Jews and enact laws which enable the execution of those who sell land to Jews. Do they view Jews as human beings?

All this is of no concern to Levin, since for him Jews are simply “a people”. If we are a people we have an identity, as Ben Gurion realized, and it is not so simple to maintain. Levin himself married a gentile but is still convinced that his children are part of the Jewish people, but exactly how? Does eating a matzoh ball, identifying with spurious Palestinian national aspirations or lighting a menorah (with a Christmas tree in the background) make them Jewish?

As for language, Levin does not speak any language of the Jewish people, neither Yiddish  nor Hebrew and if the Jewish nation’s historic bond is what maintains them, he should be aware that Rabbi Saadia Gaon defined the nation 1000 years ago: “Our nation is only a nation through its Torah.”

Levin will continue to pick and choose his Jewish identity as he pleases but he should stop short of declaring himself a proud Jew until he has thoroughly investigated what Judaism itself has meant for the past 3000 years: Devotion to G-d and his Torah, adherence to all of its precepts and belief in the right of the Jewish nation to its eternal birthright in the entire land of Israel.

 

https://vinnews.com/2021/06/24/open-letter-to-proudly-jewish-rep-andy-levin-married-to-gentile-who-thinks-judaism-is-a-culture/

Listen To Your Idiot/Ignorant Ant-Vaxxer Rabbis At Your Peril!

 

Coronavirus outbreak killed two at Fla. office, official says. A vaccinated person was spared.

The Manatee County Administration Building had a recent coronavirus outbreak among unvaccinated employees

Covid Returns: "We Need To Organize A Tish (Eat Herring With Our Rebbes)"

June 22, 2021

A coronavirus outbreak at a Florida government building killed two people and hospitalized several others who were unvaccinated against the virus, a county official said.

The Manatee County Administration Building reopened Monday after the virus that causes covid-19 spread throughout the county’s IT department and forced the building to shut down on Friday. Manatee County Administrator Scott Hopes, who is also an epidemiologist, said six unvaccinated employees, including five in the IT department, tested positive for the virus within a two-week period.

The two IT employees who died last week were identified in local media and obituaries as Mary Knight, 58, and Alphonso Cox, 53.

Hopes said that the one IT employee, 23, exposed to the virus who was vaccinated did not get infected.

“This particular outbreak demonstrates the effectiveness, I believe, with the vaccine,” he said to reporters Monday. “All of the cases were non-vaccinated. They were unvaccinated.” He added in a news release, “Individual employees in the IT Department who were known to be fully vaccinated and who were in close proximity of those who were infected did not contract COVID-19.”

But even with the outbreak, masks will remain optional for staffers returning this week, with unvaccinated workers being “encouraged but not required, to follow covid-19 prevention measures.”

At a news conference, Hopes said he suspected the outbreak could have been because of the delta coronavirus variant, which spreads more easily. The Manatee County Health Department is working with epidemiologists in contact tracing and to confirm whether the variant was responsible. Hopes said that the high fatality rate from the IT department’s outbreak suggested “we are dealing with a variant unlike what we had last year.”

The Florida outbreak comes as the delta variant has a chance to be the dominant strain in the United States this summer. First found in India, the highly contagious variant, which is accounting for 6 percent of new infections in the United States, “is more transmissible than the alpha variant,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said last week. Walensky noted that while she fears a new strain could prove resistant to vaccines, she emphasized that full vaccination protects against the delta variant.

“As worrisome as this delta strain is with regard to its hyper-transmissibility, our vaccines work,” she said in a recent interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

The United States has fully vaccinated 150 million people against the coronavirus, the White House said Monday, marking a major milestone even though the country is nowhere near the threshold necessary to snuff out the virus nationwide. Roughly 46 percent of U.S. residents have completed their vaccination schedule, according to data compiled by The Washington Post.

Florida, which has fully vaccinated 44 percent of its eligible population, has seen a sharp decline in the number of total doses administered in the past week. Manatee County, located in southwest Florida, has fully vaccinated 43 percent of its eligible population.

The Manatee Board of County Commissioners repealed coronavirus safety requirements last month and strongly recommended that people visiting the County Administration Building “use their best judgment” to protect themselves from a potential spread of the virus.

Then the coronavirus spread throughout the IT department, causing covid-19, killing and hospitalizing staffers. When the second employee died Thursday, the decision was made to shut down the building the next day so it could be disinfected.

“When you have that many cases, and you have a 40 percent fatality rate, you have to worry,” Hopes said to Florida Politics. “I would prefer not to have any more employee funerals.”

Yet the county announced over the weekend that “face masks will be optional for the public and employees inside the facility.”

“Visitors and employees who are fully vaccinated may return to work as usual,” Hopes said in a news release. “Unvaccinated individuals are encouraged, but not required, to follow COVID-19 prevention measures, including use of N95 or equivalent masks, which will be available at each entrance, and social distancing.”

Hopes defended the decision on CNN Monday, saying the focus was more on getting government employees vaccinated. The county is offering another vaccine clinic for employees at the Manatee County Administration Building on Friday.

“Clearly masks work, but the vaccine is more important at this point,” Hopes said.

Christopher Tittel, a spokesman with the Florida Department of Health in Manatee County, agreed with Hopes that vaccination among government employees is needed to help prevent another outbreak.

“We really need everybody to get onboard with this, whether it’s vaccination testing, prevention, all of it is so, so, so, so important,” Tittel told WTVT. “The vaccinations, they only work if people get vaccinated.”

Funerals and celebration-of-life events for Knight and Cox are scheduled to take place later this week.

Friends and co-workers remembered them both as loving community leaders.

Knight, an IT customer service center supervisor, was involved with Manatee County Women in Government and volunteered at local churches, according to her obituary. She’s survived by a large Italian family that includes her husband, six children and one granddaughter. Suzie McGuire, the acting IT director, wrote in an online message for Knight’s obituary that her close friend would be missed by many.

“She was a force beyond compare,” McGuire wrote. “Our hearts are broken.”

Cox, a senior systems analyst with Manatee County, was known in the area as a youth football coach with the Manatee Mustang Sports Academy for 20 years, reported the Bradenton Herald. The organization said on Facebook that Cox “personified dedication and selflessness,” and was “a father to the fatherless, a mentor to all, a hero in every aspect of the meaning, and a legend no less.” Reggie Bellamy, the organization’s commissioner, told the Herald that Cox impacted generations of young athletes.

“He had a lot of individuals that he touched, so it’s a very, very tough time,” Bellamy said.

Read more:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06/22/florida-unvaccinated-covid-outbreak/

 

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CDC: Nearly every adult COVID-19 death is now "entirely preventable" - all available vaccines are still effective against the Delta variant, meaning it primarily poses a risk to people who are unvaccinated.

 “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the h*** else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who do … you think you’re talking to?” From Taxi Driver...( I'm talking to you pious crackpots)

 

CDC: Nearly every adult COVID-19 death is now "entirely preventable"

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky

 

Adult deaths from COVID-19 are "at this point entirely preventable" thanks to vaccines, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said during a White House coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.

Why it matters: Deaths from the virus have dramatically decreased since their peak in early 2021, but the U.S. is still currently reporting an average of more than 200 deaths every day, though the numbers could increase as the B.1.617.2 (or Delta) variant of the virus becomes the dominant strain in the country.

The big picture: NIAID Director Anthony Fauci said the Delta variant, which was first detected in India, is currently the greatest threat to the elimination of the coronavirus in the U.S. because it's more transmissible and associated with increased disease severity than the most common variant of the virus.

• However, all available vaccines are still effective against the Delta variant, meaning it primarily poses a risk to people who are unvaccinated.

What they're saying: "This new virus forced too many of our families to accept death as an outcome for too many of our loved ones, but now this should not be the case," Walensky said.

• "We have the tools, so let's use them and crush the outbreak," Fauci said.
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Father Pleads to Keep Sick Daughter Alive and Take Her to Israel - Ten GOP Senators Ask Biden to Intervene in Fixsler Case

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LONDON (Reuters) 

The father of a 2-year-old Israeli girl who has been in hospital in Britain with a serious brain injury since birth pleaded to be allowed to take his daughter to Israel, after a U.K. court ruled her life-sustaining care should be withdrawn.

“I want to keep my daughter, I want to have the ability to go to Israel and take my daughter with me. Under U.K. law, she’s an Israeli citizen, not a U.K. one,” Avraham Fixsler told Reuters.

“We waited a long time for a child, when she was born she was oxygen deprived and that caused brain damage.”

He said he had Israeli doctors who were willing to come to Manchester, where his daughter Alta is in hospital, and give the family their options for treating her.

“We believe she is not suffering and we want to have the right to keep her,” he said.

A spokesperson for Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein confirmed to Reuters in Yerushalayim that the minister had appealed to the British government last week on the family’s behalf to say that Israel wished to take her in for treatment.

The High Court in London ruled on May 28 that it was in Alta’s best interests for her life sustaining treatment to be withdrawn, and that she had a catastrophic brain injury from which she will not recover and for which no treatment could improve her condition.

Her family had told the court their Jewish faith means they cannot agree with any course of action that would bring their child’s death closer.

They will learn later on Tuesday whether they have the right to appeal the ruling.

“We want to do the best for her … Let me take my daughter and go to Israel,” said Fixsler.

The dispute resembles the case of Charlie Gard, a young British boy who became the subject of a battle between his parents and doctors over whether he should be taken to the United States for experimental treatment.

The harrowing legal case prompted a global debate over who has the moral right to decide the fate of a sick child.

Britain’s courts, after hearing a wealth of medical evidence, ruled that it would go against Charlie’s best interests to have the treatment and he died in 2017.

 

British court rules that haredi Orthodox couple’s 2-year-old daughter must be taken off life support

 

“Iceberg, Goldberg, Rosenberg, they’re all the same to me.” - Goldberg made several false reports of child abuse, neglect, and attempted murder of the youngster to Fort Lee police over a three-week period in March, the complaint obtained by Daily Voice says.

 

A Jewish pilot and Chinese pilot are flying together for the 1st time.

 

An hour into the flight, the Jewish pilot says to his Chinese counterpart “I don’t like the Chinese.”

Stunned, the Chinese pilot replies “Why don’t you like the Chinese?”

“Well” says the Jew, “the Chinese bombed Pearl Harbor.”

Even more stunned, he replies ”The Chinese didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor! It was the Japanese!”

“Well, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, they’re all the same to me.” says the Jew.

The Chinese pilot is seething at this, and after a while he turns to his Jewish counterpart to say “I don’t like the Jews.”

“What?” asks the Jew. “Why don’t you like Jews?”

“Well” he says, “The Jews sank the Titanic.”

The Jewish pilot scoffs at this, “The Jews didn’t sink the Titanic! An Iceberg sank the Titanic!”

“Well” he replies, “Iceberg, Goldberg, Rosenberg, they’re all the same to me.”

 

Long Island Man Accused Of Threatening Police, Pretending To Be Abused Child, Authorities Say

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A man accused of threatening several members of law enforcement and the Jewish community on Long Island pretended to be an abused 11-year-old as part of another relentless harassment campaign against police in Fort Lee, New Jersey, authorities said.

Bradley Goldberg, age 47, of Cedarhurst, used a voice modifier and untraceable “spoof” numbers as part of the assault, a police complaint charges.

Goldberg made several false reports of child abuse, neglect, and attempted murder of the youngster to Fort Lee police over a three-week period in March, the complaint obtained by Daily Voice says.

Even though police determined that the accusations were bogus -- and told him so -- Goldberg continued to call the department "multiple times daily” and email them with more false accusations, the complaint prepared by Detective Nick Orta says.

The forensic certified public accountant continued the behavior -- threatening to call up to "one thousand times per day" -- despite repeated requests that he stop, it says.

He also reportedly called police requesting a welfare check at the victim’s address, despite a court order of no contact with the victim through others.

Goldberg also "threatened to commit a crime against members of the Fort Lee Police Department" while making “derogatory comments about officers with the department, [advising] them on how they can hurt themselves and making “several comments about members of their families,” the complaint charges.

Goldberg had a prior record of arrests for assault, hate crimes, aggravated harassment, stalking, obstruction, menacing and criminal contempt when he was arrested in May in Nassau County.

Authorities there said he’d waged a campaign of harassment and threats of violence against police and members of the Jewish community over a year and a half.

Goldberg made more than 1,000 calls to officers and detectives in Manhasset, Jewish community leaders in Port Washington and Great Neck, and attorneys who’d previously represented him, they alleged.

In one call, they said, he identified himself and declared "my new goal is to have one of the Sixth Precinct officers blow their brains out and I want to see the body as proof."

Goldberg was extradited to New Jersey late last week to face charges of making a false report involving critical infrastructure, falsely incriminating another, cyber harassment, and stalking in connection with the Fort Lee complaint.

He’s remained in the Bergen County Jail since then, awaiting a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.

 

https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/nassau/police-fire/long-island-man-accused-of-threatening-police-pretending-to-be-abused-child-authorities-say/810419/

The Known & Exposed Chinese Danger To The Free World Began With Bernie Schwartz And Bill Clinton! Nobody Cared! (except me)

 

Clinton Defends China Satellite Waiver

White House delivers papers to Congress in support of the deal

WASHINGTON (May 22) -- President Bill Clinton on Friday defended a controversial satellite deal with China, even as White House officials delivered documents to the House International Relations Committee about the arrangement.

The president said the deal to launch U.S. satellites on rockets owned by other nations was "correct" and "based on what I thought was in the national interest and supportive of our national security."

"There was absolutely nothing done to transfer any technology inappropriately to the Chinese as a result of this decision," Clinton said. "I believe it was in the national interest and I can assure you it was handled in the routine course of business, consistent with the 10-year-old policy."

The White House backed up that claim by releasing about 400 pages of declassified documents claiming the presidential waiver was consistent with U.S. policy and had been recommended by the president's national security adviser, the State Department and the Pentagon.

White House legislative liaison Mara Rudman, accompanied by at least one White House lawyer, delivered the documents to the House International Relations Committee Friday morning. Rudman was carrying two folders of papers as she arrived at the committee office, but made no comment.

Congressional critics, both Democrats and Republicans, say the Chinese may have had access to sophisticated U.S. satellite and missile technology during an investigation into a failed launch attempt on a Chinese rocket in 1996.

And Republicans have accused Clinton of jeopardizing national security by granting the waiver to please a high-dollar Democratic donor.

A spokesman told CNN the committee does not expect the papers to include a pivotal document from the Defense Department, purportedly linking a possibly illegal transfer of technology with a cooperative investigation among China and two American defense contractors, Loral Space and Communications and Hughes Electronics.

Rep. Ben Gilman (R-N.Y.) hinted the documents may not be as exculpatory as the White House indicated. "Let me just say that some of the documents do raise troubling questions that will have to be pursued," Gilman said. "They make clear that the president was informed that Loral may have contributed technology to China's ballistic missile program before he decided to grant Loral a waiver on February 18th of this year to permit them to export yet another satellite to China."

But how much do we really know?

It's a fact Loral Space and Communications hired the Chinese to launch one of their satellites two years ago because Chinese rocket launches are relatively cheap. Technically, that is an export of a U.S. satellite to China.

But Loral says the Chinese never got their hands on the satellite itself. And Pentagon officials confirm sensitive technology was encased in a metal "black box" and watched over from factory to launch pad by Department of Defense employees.

There has been bipartisan support for such launches. President Ronald Reagan first initiated the policy 10 years ago. And President George Bush approved nine while Clinton has approved 11, according to the Congressional Research Service.

But concerns have heated up. To launch satellites, China used "Long March" boosters, the same ones they use for intercontinental nuclear missiles, some said to be aimed at U.S. cities.

They weren't very good. The one carrying Loral's satellite blew up 30 seconds after launch on Feb. 15, 1996, costing Loral's insurance companies about $200 million.

Afterward Loral admits it gave the Chinese a written report about the cause of the rocket failure, without official clearance. A Pentagon office concluded in a still-secret report that "United States national security has been harmed," according to government officials. And Loral confirms it is now under investigation by a federal grand jury as a result.

And one House International Relations Committee source, speaking to CNN on background, said the committee plans to focus its investigation on this cooperation.

Loral's chairman Bernard Schwartz denies Loral did anything illegal. In its own defense, Loral says Chinese engineers found the problem -- the rocket failure was caused by bad solder joints -- without Loral's help. And they say "no 'secret' or 'classified' information was ever discussed with the Chinese or included in any reports provided to the Chinese."

Privately, Pentagon officials minimize the affair. One told CNN that the alleged harm to national security was "not significant or substantial ... about a one or two on a scale of ten." 

Moneyline Interview: Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz Tells His Side Of The Missile Technology Controversy

Aired May 20, 1998 - 7:00 p.m. ET

DOBBS: Now you know better than anyone just how sensitive this issue has become. The speaker of the House calling for an investigation. The Justice Department investigating it. Much of this before the grand jury. Can you say to us tonight whether or not Loral in any way exported technology that would not be in the national interest, i.e. would be helpful to the Chinese missile program?

SCHWARTZ: Yes, I can say categorically that Loral did not violate the export control rules, neither the letter or the spirit. Everything we do is under license. We've been in this business -- the space business -- defense business for over 25 years. We know the rules, and we follow them.

DOBBS: Why then did the Pentagon find that the export of such technology was not in the national interest?

SCHWARTZ: I don't know that they did that. No allegations have been made. No accusations about Loral people -- wrongdoing has been made. So I don't know how to defend that question.

DOBBS: Well, let me -- in May of 1997, the Pentagon found that scientists from both Hughes and Loral had turned over expertise that significantly improved the reliability of China's nuclear missiles and that national security had been harmed, and that promoted then the criminal investigation.

SCHWARTZ: Lou, we have not seen that report. We've heard that report in the press, but like so many other things, that may have been a misstatement in the media. I can tell you that we have not seen that. No allegations, as I say, have been made. We have been cooperating totally with the government agencies here. It's in our best interest, and it's the proper thing to do.

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https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/05/21/interview.schwartz/

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Medical Science Sticks It to The Anti-Vaxxers Daas Torahniks!

 

There Is No Cure For Being A Fool & Misleading His Idiot Minions! Read The PDF Below - ALL 54 Pages Of Insanity!

Now proven against coronavirus, mRNA can do so much more

 

When the final Phase 3 data came out last November showing the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were more than 90% effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci had no words. He texted smiley face emojis to a journalist seeking his reaction.

 

This astonishing efficacy has held up in real-world studies in the US, Israel and elsewhere. The mRNA technology -- developed for its speed and flexibility as opposed to expectations it would provide strong protection against an infectious disease -- has pleased and astonished even those who already advocated for it.

 

 

The messenger RNA, or mRNA, platform may be new to the global public, but it's a technology that researchers had been betting on for decades. Now those bets are paying off, and not just by turning back a pandemic that killed millions in just a year.

 

This approach that led to remarkably safe and effective vaccines against a new virus is also showing promise against old enemies such as HIV, and infections that threaten babies and young children, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and metapneumovirus. It's being tested as a treatment for cancers, including melanoma and brain tumors. It might offer a new way to treat autoimmune diseases. And it's also being checked out as a possible alternative to gene therapy for intractable conditions such as sickle cell disease.

 

Vaccines

The story of mRNA vaccines dates back to the early 1990s, when Hungarian-born researcher Katalin Kariko of the University of Pennsylvania started testing mRNA technology as a form of gene therapy. The idea is similar whether scientists want to use the mRNA molecule to cure disease or prevent it; send instructions to the cells of the body to make something specific.

 

She is one of the scientists who paved the way for the Covid-19 vaccine 

 

 

Researchers like to use a cookbook analogy. The body's DNA is the cookbook. Messenger RNA is a copy of the recipe -- one that disappears quickly. In the case of genetic disease, it can be used to instruct cells to make a healthy copy of a protein. In the case of mRNA vaccines, it's used to tell cells to make what looks like a piece of virus, so the body produces antibodies and special immune system cells in response.

 

The recipe disappears while the cooked product -- the body's immune response -- lasts.

 

Kariko was unable to drum up much interest in this idea for years. But for the past 15 years or so, she's teamed up with Dr. Drew Weissman, an infectious disease expert at Penn Medicine, to apply mRNA technology to vaccines. Since scientists started focusing on the threat of a pandemic caused by a new influenza or coronavirus, they've recognized the promise of mRNA vaccines for quickly turning around a pandemic vaccine.

 

"If you want to make a new influenza vaccine using the traditional methods, you have to isolate the virus, learn how to grow it, learn how to inactivate it, and purify it. That takes months. With RNA, you only need the sequence," Weissman told CNN.

 

They did not even need a sample of the virus itself.

 

"When the Chinese released the sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we started the process of making RNA the next day. A couple weeks later, we were injecting animals with the vaccine."

 

Although it sounded revolutionary, the idea was far from new to Weissman, Kariko and others.

 

"In my lab, we have been working on vaccines for years. We have five Phase 1 clinical trials that we started before Covid hit," said Weissman, whose work with Kariko helped lead to Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine.

 

"They been delayed because of the pandemic. The plan is to complete them next year."

Two of these experimental vaccines target influenza, including one Weissman hopes will be a so-called universal influenza vaccine -- one that will protect against rapidly mutating strains of flu, and perhaps offer people years of protection with a single shot, eliminating the need for fresh immunizations each flu season.

 

They are also working on two vaccines against the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, that causes AIDS, and one to prevent genital herpes.

 

Researchers have also studied mRNA vaccines to fight Ebola, Zika, rabies and cytomegalovirus.

Another possible target: respiratory syncytial virus. RSV infects most people in babyhood, and it can put fragile infants into the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). It kills an estimated 100-500 children a year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates -- but it kills an estimated 14,000 adults, mostly over age 65.

 

"It infects everyone by age 2," said Jason McLellan, a structural biologist and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin whose work underlies several coronavirus vaccines.

One obstacle will be finding the best version of the viruses. McLellan specializes in finding just the right conformation of the target viral structures that will allow the human immune system to best recognize and build defenses against them.

 

GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer are both working on that, he said. A different common cold virus called human metapneumovirus, which can cause pneumonia in adults and children alike, is another potential target for a vaccine, McLellan said.

 

Again, ongoing work helped speed development of coronavirus vaccines, McLellan said. In this case, work on the original 2003-2004 severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, virus and Middle East respiratory, or MERS, virus helped researchers understand which version of the knoblike structure found on the outside of the virus, called the spike protein, to use in making vaccines. "We figured out how to stabilize coronavirus spikes back in 2016, so we had all the knowledge ready when Covid-19 emerged," McLellan said.

 

It was ready to go "within hours," he said.

 

Other potential vaccines include malaria, tuberculosis and rare viruses such as Nipah virus, Weissman said -- all made more possible by the mRNA technology. Effective vaccines against these infections have eluded scientists for various reasons.

 

Weissman's lab is now working on a universal coronavirus vaccine that would protect against Covid-19, SARS, MERS, coronavirus that cause the common cold -- and future strains.

 

"We started working on a pan-coronavirus vaccine last spring," Weissman said. "There have been three coronavirus epidemics in the past 20 years. There are going to be more."

 

And the mRNA vaccines work very well. "We knew in mice and monkeys and rabbits and pigs and chickens that it was very potent," Weissman said. The Pfizer vaccine, he said, produces an antibody response that is five time bigger than what's seen in people who have recovered from infection.

 

Cancer

Another obvious use for mRNA technology is to fight cancer. The human body fights off cancer every day, and using mRNA could help it do so even better.

 

"You can use it to have your body produce a beneficial molecule," McLellan said.

Different tumor cell types have various, recognizable structures on the outside that the immune system can recognize. "You can imagine being able to inject someone with an mRNA that encodes an antibody that specifically targets that receptor," McLellan said.

 

Moderna -- a company formed specially to develop mRNA technology -- is working on personalized cancer vaccines.

 

"We identify mutations found on a patient's cancer cells," the company says on its website. Computer algorithms predict the 20 most common mutations. "We then create a vaccine that encodes for each of these mutations and load them onto a single mRNA molecule," Moderna says. That's injected into the patient to try to help orchestrate a better immune response against the tumors.

This is early, Phase 1 clinical research.

 

BioNTech founders Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci also had cancer vaccines in mind from the beginning. The company has eight potential cancer treatments in human trials. "While we believe our approach is broadly applicable across a number of therapeutic areas, our most advanced programs are focused on oncology, where we have treated over 250 patients across 17 tumor types to date," the company says on its website.

 

Autoimmune diseases

Using mRNA to fight autoimmune diseases is an "exciting area," McLellan said.

Current treatments are crude and involve tamping down specific areas of the mistaken immune response -- something that can leave patients with autoimmune disease such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis vulnerable to infection.

 

BioNtech has been working with academic researchers to use mRNA to treat mice genetically engineered to develop a disease similar to multiple sclerosis -- an autoimmune disease that starts when the immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin, a fatty covering of the nerve cells.

In the mice, the treatment appeared to help stop the attack, while keeping the rest of the immune system intact.

 

Gene therapy

The idea behind gene therapy is to replace a defective gene with one that works properly. Despite decades of work, researchers haven't had much success, with the exception of certain immune deficiencies and some eye diseases.

 

It's difficult to find a vector to carry the corrected gene into cells without causing side-effects, and in a way that lasts.

 

The mRNA approach promises to send instructions for making the healthy version of a protein, and Weissman sees special promise in treating sickle cell disease, in particular.

 

In sickle cell disease, red blood cells take on a folded shape and can clog tiny blood vessels, causing pain and organ damage. Messenger RNA could be used to change the instructions going to the bone marrow, where red blood cells are made, telling them to make healthier shaped cells.

 

"Now that we can target that cell, the hope is we can give people an injection of RNA and it will target the bone marrow stem cells and fix the disease," Weissman said.

 

"It's gene therapy without the half a million dollar price tag," he added. "It should be just an IV injection and that's it."

 

Tests in mice are showing promise -- the next step it to test the approach in monkeys, Weissman said.

In 2008, a company then called Shire Pharmaceuticals started to develop mRNA treatments for cystic fibrosis -- a deadly genetic illness caused by any one of a number of small mutations to a gene called CFTR.

 

That technology is now owned by Translate Bio, a company dedicated to making mRNA therapies and vaccines. It's working to correct faulty CFTR in the lungs by delivering mRNA via a nebulizer. The treatment appears safe in early stage trials in people and has won orphan drug status from the US Food and Drug Administration.

 

Tickborne diseases

The mRNA approach might also work against some tickborne diseases, Weissman said.

 

"The idea there is if you are immune to tick saliva proteins, when the tick bites you, the body produces inflammation and the tick falls off," Weissman said.

 

Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, and the tick generally has to stay attached 36 to 48 hours before it transmits the bacteria to the host. If the tick falls off before that, it cannot transmit the infection.

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