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Parents Decry ‘Indoctrination’

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in Loudoun County Schools, Two Arrested at Board Meeting

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he school board of Virginia’s Loudoun County shut down a June 22 public discussion of transgender policy after scores of attendees railed against progressive “indoctrination” in the local curriculum and demanded the resignation of board staff.

As the crowd was removed from the premises, a fight broke out and two men were arrested by police for trespassing on school board property and “illegal assembly.”

The Tuesday evening meeting at the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) building included a public comment session for discussion on the proposed policy 8040, which would expand requirements for staff conduct around students who identify as transgender.

Longstanding debate

The school board and its supporters argue that policy 8040 is necessary to protect transgender students and follow state legislation, while concerned residents seethe current and pro-

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posed policies as inappropriate endorsement of transgender and critical race politics, violating parents’ rights and educational ethics.

But the public comments, where 259 people signed up to speak, soon turned into a display of the weekslong debate over the place of ideology in the classroom. After several bouts of booing and cheering, LCPS superintendent Scott Ziegler cut off the discussion, saying the crowd’s behavior disturbed the order of the meeting.

“While the policy won’t be voted on until August,

groups saw the school board meeting as one final opportunity to express their outrage over the matter,” local outlet Loudoun Now reported Wednesday.

Both conservatives and progressives took the meeting as a venue to voice their opinions, with a particularly impassioned showing from those among the former.

When the seventh speaker, the mother of a transgender student, said there was hate "dripping from the followers of Jesus in this room," she was booed by the Christian attendees, which led to a five-

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minute recess and a warning from board staff that the meeting would be ended if another disruption occurred.

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Superintendent in northern Virginia community cut short public discussion of transgender and critical race theory issues

singing “The Star Spangled Banner” after Ziegler cut him off. Just 51 of the speakers got their turns to talk.

Chairwoman Brenda Sheridan released a statement condemning the crowd’s behavior following the meeting, accusing dissenters to the board’s policy of using “the public comment period to disrupt our work and disrespect each other.”

“Dog-whistle politics will not delay our work. We will not back down from fighting for the rights of our students and continuing our focus on equity,” Sheridan stated.

warnings asking the crowd to settle down and ‘respect each other,’ but after a former Republican state senator brought attention to the district’s implementation of critical race theory and condemned the hundreds of parents, teachers, and even board members who joined an ‘anti-racist’ private Facebook group that doxxed parents opposed to CRT, the crowd erupted into cheers and the school board unanimously voted to abruptly end the meeting,” conservative website The Federalist reported.

The retired state senator, Dick Black, led the crowd in

Critical race theory

In the backdrop of the transgender row is a debate about critical race theory, which has seen growing influence on campuses and in the media. CRT takes the position that race is a social construct “used to oppress and exploit people of colour,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Critics of the theory say that CRT encourages anti-white sentiment and division among students, while negating the importance of individual choice and moral conduct.

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Priscilla Chan, Martin Schulz, Mark Zuckerberg, Mathias Doepfner and Friede Springer attend the presentation of the first Axel Springer Award on February 25, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative granted $433,000 USD to University of North Carolina Chapel Hill lead virologist Ralph Baric, a scientist connected to the source of SARS-CoV-2, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and “Batwoman” Shi Zhengli.

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Major Player in US Gain-of-Function Research

Takes Nearly $450K From Zuckerberg Charity

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acebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s charity handed almost $450,000 to a U.S. university known to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Wuhan Institute of Virology to purchase lab equipment and fund research on SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus which causes the disease the CCP-betrothed World Health Organization dubbed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to reports.

Reporting by National Pulse revealed the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and lead virologist Ralph Baric were granted $433,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) as early as July of 2020. The Initiative is a charity organization founded by Zuckerberg and his wife, Pris-

cilla Chan.

The funds were earmarked for purchasing cutting edge laboratory equipment intended to hasten testing speeds and development of “a global solution to the pandemic,” read a press release according to National Pulse.

A press release on the UNC website went into more detail on what the funds were to be used for, “The grant covers the purchase of a ‘liquid handler’ — a robotic arm that can pipette fluids much more quickly and accurately than humans can — and supporting instruments, including another robot that detects active virus particles in samples and a machine to sequence RNA. Together, these tools increase the rate of testing compounds by 20-fold.”

In the Release, CZI Head of Science Cori Bargmann said, “The Baric Lab’s expertise in

Baric and the UNC are long-time collaborators with the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s “batwoman,” Shi Zhengli.

coronaviruses, coupled with the team’s progress in antiviral testing, made this an important grant to help speed the development of COVID-19 treatments.”

The logo of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears next to the Chinese Academy of Science and the National Natural Science Foundation of China at the bottom of the slide.

National Pulse also said the CZI funds paid for a study on SARS-COV-2 submitted as a pre-print for peer review on June 1.

Fooling with Mother Nature

Following the conference and in a May 11 hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned NIAID head Anthony Fauci in a heated debate about NIH funding of research in China.

“For years, Dr. Ralph Baric,

a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH. Dr. Fauci, do you still support the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?” asked Paul.

Fauci’s reply was rather bold in light of June revelations to the content of Fauci’s emails, “Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not never and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

The State Department alleged a cover-up by the Chinese regime, saying “Beijing continues today to withhold vital information that scientists need to protect the world from this deadly virus, and the next one.”

$400 Billion in Unemployment Benefits Missing Crime Syndicates Profiting From Pandemic

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ccording to experts, hundreds of billions of dollars in unemployment benefits distributed by the federal government to those affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID19) pandemic may have been diverted to criminal syndicates.

The temporary Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program implemented by the CARES Act in March 2020 was designed to provide unemployment benefits to workers who would otherwise not qualify to receive the benefits. Beneficiaries include contractors, part-time employees, selfemployed freelancers, and contracted workers.

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wood Talcove, CEO of global data analytics firm LexisNexis Risk Solutions, estimated that fraudsters stole more than 70 percent of the unemployment funds and presumably left the country.

Talcove added that the funds ended up in Russia, China, Nigeria, and other countries with criminal syndicates.

Blake Hall, CEO of ID.me, a fraud prevention service, also talked to Axios and estimated around 400 billion dollars has been lost to false unemployment insurance claims. In other words, around 50 percent of the allocated funds were stolen.

Behind the scam

Last year, both Trump and Biden passed aid packages to offset the steadily declining unemployment insurance aid. The aid, mainly provided through the PUA, was

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Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, questions Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia via teleconference during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on COVID-19/Unemployment Insurance on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

aimed at supporting citizens through the pandemic and lockdowns.

However, criminals quickly created an extensive scam involving the aid packages.

By the beginning of November, an estimated 36 billion dollars out of the 360 billion dollars allocated for unemployment benefits had been siphoned away by fraudsters.

Although scams often appear whenever government funding schemes are announced, the magnitude of the alleged fraud is significant. Identity theft is one of the most common forms of fraud in these situations, in which criminals gain access to personal data and use it to file claims. Victims are tricked into verifying their

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identity and accessing job opportunities or claiming rewards.

The state was expecting false claims from people who did not need aid or a scenario where identities of people who actually needed aid got stolen.

However, a historic rise in demand for unemployment benefits, pressure to disperse funds as quickly as possible, and a weakened workforce resulted in lapses in verification and fraud prevention.

By the time the relief package was ready to be passed in December last year, several states had doubled up on measures to prevent fraud.

For instance, New Mexico required five days between the submission of the benefits application and the issuance of funds in order to verify whether the applicant’s bank account was connected to a recognized crime syndicate.

If any suspicious activity was found, the claim would automatically be locked.

Both the state and federal government have become more stringent when dispensing unemployment benefits, adding additional steps for workers to verify their eligibility in the most recently signed 900 billion dollar COVID-19 relief package.

The Republican House recently introduced the Combatting COVID Unemployment Fraud Act of 2021 (H.R. 3268) on May 19, 2021.

The bill is designed to prevent fraud through the verification of factors such as identity, earnings, and prior employment details, provide relief to victims of identity theft or unemployment fraud, and establish a joint COVID Unemployment Fraud Taskforce to recover fraudulent payouts. subscription@visiontimes.com

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Grammy Award-winning Hip-Hop Artist Charged With Acting as Foreign Agent for Beijing

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rammy Award-winning Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, a 48-yearold former hip-hop artist, and 39-year-old Malaysian Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, have been charged with attempting to expel a Chinese dissident in the U.S. who was sought after by the Chinese regime, a June 11 Department of Justice (DoJ) press release states.

The pair have also been charged with attempting to influence the Trump administration’s investigation into the 1MDB Malaysian financial scandal. Michel was also a founding member of the Fugees hip hop group, along with Wyclef Jean and Lauren Hill, which was active between the years 1992 and 2006.

Chasing dissidents

According to court doc-

uments seen by The Epoch Times, Michel, Jho Low, an unnamed Vice Minister of Public Security for the People’s Republic of China, and a few other representatives of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) met with FBI agents in 2017. During the meeting, the CCP members inquired about the dissident’s security arrangements and whereabouts, and asked for him to be sent back to China.

The name of the dissident was not mentioned in the court documents. He was characterized as living in the U.S. on a temporary visa and having a “high profile.”

The person was said to have an Interpol Red Notice in his name. A day after the meeting, Michel obtained images of the dissident’s identity card, passport, and other documents, which showed the crimes the dissident had allegedly committed. It is unknown whether Michel

gave the evidence to the FBI. A Red Notice is “not an international arrest warrant,” the Interpol website states. Instead, it is a “request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.”

According to CNBC, the Chinese dissident is the controversial billionaire Guo Wengui. Guo fled to the United States in 2014 after being accused of various crimes by the Chinese regime, including money laundering, bribing, rape, fraud, kidnapping, and so on.

Guo claimed to be a whistleblower and levied several corruption allegations against senior Chinese officials.

In 2019, a study by the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) found that there was a Chinese government-

backed misinformation campaign against Guo on Twitter involving hundreds of fake accounts.

Guo himself is a subject of debate in the overseas Chinese dissident community, given his complicated business and political ties, threatening accusations against anti-CCP activists, and sometimes bizarre statements.

1MDB investigation

Michel and Low are also facing charges associated with a 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) money laundering scandal. 1MDB is a strategic development company owned by the Malaysian Minister of Finance. According to Malaysian authorities, almost 4.5 billion dollars was stolen from 1MDB between 2009 and 2014.

Jho Low is accused of being the mastermind behind the fraud. Low and his associates are said to have used

the swindled money to buy jets, yachts, and real estate.

They also financed Martin Scorsese’s 2013 movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street.” In 2018, the U.S. DoJ launched an investigation into the allegations, and in October 2019, a settlement deal was reached with Low to recover one billion dollars that had been misappropriated.

According to the June 11 DOJ press release, Michel and Low ran an “unregistered, back-channel campaign” starting in 2017 to influence the Justice Department and the Trump administration to drop the 1MDB investigation of Jho Low and others connected to the case.

The unnamed Vice Minister of Public Security for the People’s Republic of China was also involved in directing Michel and Low to push the influence campaign forward.

Low is currently believed to be in China.

Goodwill Employee Returns $42,000 Rewarded for Her Honesty

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hat would you do if you found tens of thousands of dollars in cold, hard cash hidden in two sweaters donated to a Goodwill store you work for?

While working at the Norman-based thrift store, young mother-of-one Andrea Lessing discovered the largest money stash Goodwill of Central Oklahoma had ever seen. It was a shocking find in the history of all Goodwill

stores.

These ideas may have crossed Andrea’s mind when she discovered the money on the clock at her Goodwill job. Lessing had only worked at the company for six weeks. This job gave the single mother some financial independence to support her daughter, but not much.

The honesty and the goodness in Andrea’s heart won the battle. She couldn’t bear to think that somebody would be disadvantaged if the money was not returned

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to its rightful owner. She reported the incredible stash to her supervisor straight away. They found the stack of bills, hidden in a number of envelopes, totaled a whopping $42,000.

Lessing discovered the cash while performing her normal responsibilities, inspecting donated goods that arrive in the store. Lessing noticed something unusual in the sweaters she was inspecting. At first, she thought the clothing was wrapped around some books, but to

her surprise, she found stacks of envelopes filled with $100 bills. At first she thought that they must be counterfeit or a movie prop, but upon closer examination, it was obvious that the stash was genuine greenbacks.

Usually, donations to Goodwill remain anonymous. But this time, while examining the sweaters and the cash, they found a name that indicated the owner.

The owner was grateful and overjoyed upon learning that his money had been recov-

ered. The person wished to remain anonymous, but wanted to do something to repay Lessing for her honesty and kindness. The grateful owner acknowledged the young mother for her integrity and gifted her $1,000 as a token of his gratitude.

Lessing was delighted that she not only brought the owner of the lost money the happiness of having it returned, but was also blessed herself in return.

Now she had a thousand dollars, which she could spend

Parents Decry ‘Indoctrination’ in Loudoun County Schools, Two Arrested at Board Meeting Continued from FRONT n The New Normal, a video series by the Washington Post, hostess Nicole Ellis promoted “white accountability groups” as a means of experiencing a “period of deep shame” and “acknowledging the harm our ancestors have caused.”

Xi Van Fleet, a ChineseAmerican mother in Loudoun County, said at an earlier LCPS meeting that the introduction of CRT and teaching inspired by the theory in local schools resembled the onslaught against traditional heritage in the Cultural Rev-

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olution (1966–1976) launched by communist leader Mao Zedong.

“The communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people, the only difference is that they used class instead of race,” Xi, who grew up during the Cultural Revolution, said at the June 9 meeting.

‘In the name of inclusivity’

Policy 8040 is just the most recent in a series of transgender-related regulations proposed or introduced by the school board.

Both Michel and Low have been charged with conspiring to commit money laundering related to the foreign influence campaigns.

Michel also has additional charges against him for witness tampering and conspiracy to make false statements to banks.

“If convicted, Low faces a maximum penalty of five to 10 years in prison, per count.

If convicted, Michel faces a range of maximum penalties from five to 20 years in prison, per count. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors,” the June 11 DOJ press release stated.

Back in 2019, Low and Michel were also charged with funneling millions of dollars into the 2012 U.S. presidential elections to support Barack Obama’s campaign.

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The school board of Virginia's Loudoun County held a routine meeting to close out the school year. Instead, chaos ruled as parents accused the schools of teaching critical race theory.

At a board meeting on June 8, eighth-grader Jolene Grover spoke out against a draft policy allowing the use of facilities “that correspon[d] to their gender identity.”

“Boys are reading erotica in the classroom next to girls and you want to give them access to girls’ locker rooms and you want to force girls to call those boys ‘she,’” Jolene told the board. “You do this in the name of inclusivity while ignoring the girls who will pay the price. Your policies choose boys’ wants over girls’ needs,” she said, while

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commenting that for many students, sexual identities had become as superficial as a hairstyle.

“When woke kids ask me if I was a lesbian or a trans boy because I cut my hair short, it should tell you these modern identities are superficial,” she said.

The transgenderism controversy also hit a teacher, Byron “Tanner” Cross, who was fired for his refusal to apply students’ preferred pronouns. A Virginia court has ordered the school district to walk back the termination.

for her daughter’s birthday and more. Everybody won.

Lessing said the situation has restored her faith that there are really good people out there, even through the pandemic, “We don’t know their situation, so it’s better to be kind,’’ she said.

Goodwill shared a statement from Lessing on receiving the reward money, “I never expected anything like this to happen to me, of all people…To me it was just another normal day at work.’’

At the June 22 meeting, speakers asked the school district to withdraw their appeal of the court decision.

And echoing Jolnee’s concerns, one female student who spoke on Tuesday said that “girls’ bathrooms do not exist to validate identities,'' according to the Washington, D.C. area’s WTOP News.

“Boys who identify as girls are no different from boys who identify as boys, except in their feelings about themselves,” she said. “We have separate bathrooms because of what our bodies do in them. Bodies matter. Calling girls bigots because they don’t want to use the toilet and a stall next to a boy or get undressed next to a boy is cruel and wrong.”

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Cryptocurrency Markets Buckle After China Cracks Down Further on Bitcoin Mining, Crypto Trading

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hina’s central bank urged banks and payment firms on Monday to crack down further on cryptocurrency trading and mining in China, sending the cryptocurrency market into a tailspin and resulting in the loss of billions of dollars worth of value from the global cryptocurrency markets.

Bitcoin (BTC) was sitting at an all time high of US$63,613.23 on Apr. 13 but was trading at just US$32,321.04 as of Tuesday morning, June 22.

The decrease in value comes after Chinese regulators, in May, again declared cryptocurrency trading and mining a threat to the country’s financial system and

Cryptocurrencies are considered extremely volatile and it is recommended that investors only invest funds that they are prepared to lose.

inconsistent with the nation’s carbon emissions goals.

China had banned all financial transactions with Bitcoin and other tokens since 2019 but had turned a blind eye towards mining at farms in Inner Mongolia and Sichuan, Xinjiang as well as other mainland locations until now.

Mining farms situated in Sichuan, Xinjiang were shuttered early on June 20.

At midnight all Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining operations in Sichuan were powered off ending a years long industry. Any miners engaged in mining in the region are suspected to have incurred massive losses.

Prior to this, China was the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining location accounting for approximately 65 percent of all Bitcoin min-

ing on the planet.

Cryptocurrencies were targeted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as early as 2013 when Bitcoin was trading at less than US$1,000.00. The emerging decentralized technology was seen as a direct threat to the financial stranglehold the CCP has on the nation.

Non-government sanctioned cryptocurrencies have always been viewed as a threat to the governing party.

Consistent with past actions, Beijing banned all forms of capital-raising by issuing tokens in 2017 as well, forcing many traders at the time to park their assets.

Coincidentally, trading of China’s official governmentbacked cryptocurrency, the Digital Yuan, was made available to trade on June 22.

According to www.yuan-

paygroup.com , “as of June 22, 2021, anyone can trade China’s new Digital Yuan cryptocurrency coin.”

“As of now, YuanPay Group is the only approved and legalized company in China to trade and sell cryptocurrencies,'' reads the website.

China’s actions felt across the markets

China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency trading is reverberating throughout the market, having an effect on practically every digital currency available to trade and mine.

The popu la r coin, Ethereum (ETH), was down 25 percent over the past 7 days and the meme coin, Dogecoin (DOGE), after reaching an all time high of US$68 cents on May 7, was

trading below US$20 cents on the morning of June 22.

The global market cap for all cryptocurrencies currently stands at US$1.29 trillion which realized a decrease in value over the past day of 4.47 percent representing a loss valued in the ten’s of billions. Bitcoin continues to dominate the market however with a 46.94 percent market share, an increase of 1.52 percent overnight, according to coinmarketcap.com.

Despite these incidental losses Bitcoin remains up over 237 percent year-overyear. Similarly, Ethereum is up over 706 percent yearover-year and Dogecoin is up an astounding 8019.51 percent during the same time period, according to Coinsquare a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange.

Guangdong COVID-19 Outbreak Casts Scrutiny on Chinese Vaccines (Image: ADEK BERRY / Getty Images)

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ince May, a fresh outbreak of coronavirus cases has put the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on alert, with officials announcing hundreds of cases but citizens suspecting many more.

The outbreak has brought Chinese-made COVID19 vaccines under greater scrutiny as many areas of Guangdong had earlier been innoculated. The continuing outbreak also coincides with a rise in infections in countries where Chinese vaccines are in widespread use.

Between May 21 and June 8, 110 infections were officially reported in Guangdong, which is one of China’s largest manufacturing hubs and the biggest province in terms of economic output.

Locals have disputed this; a June 3, a doctor in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, said that the cities of Guangzhou and Foshan were seeing at least 200 confirmed cases a day, indicating an actual number of cases in the thousands or more.

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We will solve the issue that current vaccines don’t have very high protection rates…

It’s now under consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization process

This photo taken on June 6, 2021 shows people receiving nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Shenzhen, in China’s southern Guangdong province. (Image: STR / Getty Images)

ince. A May 24 report published by the government of Guangzhou stated that they have inoculated roughly 7.45 million people. This means that 40 percent of the population had received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine

but the city still accounted for a vast majority of confirmed new infections.

Citizens in Guangzhou city were administered two Chinese vaccines – Vero Cells

by Sinopharm and CoronaVac by Sinovac. Vero Cells

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has only been approved for use in China, and not much data is available regarding its efficacy.

CoronaVac has been approved for use in 32 countries. In January, Brazilian clinical trials of the vaccine concluded that it only had an efficacy rate of 50.4 percent, which is barely above the 50 percent threshold a vaccine needs for regulatory approval.

On May 31, Li Ming, deputy mayor of Guangzhou, announced a halt to the vaccination campaign. On June 7, Shao Yiming, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), said to local media

that the Chinese vaccines are not for preventing infections. He said that vaccines can be divided into three levels – primary, secondary, and tertiary.

Vaccines in the primary level can prevent infection, the secondary level can prevent symptom development, and the tertiary level prevents transmission. The researcher said that Chinese vaccines are only designed for the secondary level. “The effective rate of prevention is against flare-ups, not for prevention of infection. That’s why some people are likely infected [by the virus] even after receiving the jabs,” Shao stated.

In April, Gao Fu, the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, had said in a presentation on Chinese COVID-19 vaccines and immunization strategies that the current crop of vaccines had low protection rates.

“We will solve the issue that current vaccines don’t have very high protection rates…

It’s now under consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization process,” he said, as reported by Associated Press. Gao later told the media outlet that he was speaking about vaccines in general and did not respond to AP’s inquiry as to which vaccines he was referring to specifically. subscription@visiontimes.com

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Military Science. U.S. officials believed that the Beijing lab was conducting coronavirus tests of the mice even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a fact that the lab failed to disclose.

By Prakash Gogoi Vision Times

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esearchers in communist China worked on a project where mice with human-like lungs were used to test the infectiousness of various viruses, including the COVID-19 virus or SARS-CoV-2. Such Chinese experiments have even received funding from the U.S. government.

December 2017 research paper

April 2020 Study

A Vanity Fair report cites a study from April 2020 coauthored by 23 researchers. Eleven of the researchers worked at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, the medical research institute of the Chinese army.

“Using the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, the researchers had engineered mice with humanized lungs, then studied their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. As the NSC officials worked backward from the date of publication to establish a timeline for the study, it became clear that the mice had been engineered sometime in the summer of 2019, before the pandemic even started,” according to Vanity Fair.

Officials at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) apparently knew about this and were left wondering whether the Chinese military was testing viruses on “humanized mouse models” to determine which of them were infectious to humans.

The NSC officials thought they had enough clues to support a lab leak theory of the COVID-19 pandemic and began talking with other U.S. agencies about it. However, their concerns were not reciprocated with any interest.

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‘Humanized’ Mice to Test Coronavirus Prior to Pandemic

An NSC team also came across a 2015 research paper

by Shi Zhengli, the lead coronavirus researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). WIV is communist China’s leading coronavirus research facility that contains one of the largest samples of bat virus strains in the world.

Zhengli was one of the first scientists to propose horseshoe bats as “natural reservoirs for SARS-CoV” (SARS virus). The paper was coauthored with Ralph Baric,

an epidemiologist from the University of North Carolina.

The research paper discussed experiments in which mice were used as test subjects. The study inserted the protein sourced from a Chinese rufous horseshoe bat into the molecular structure of the 2002 SARS virus.

This ended up creating a new infectious pathogen. The paper proved that the spike protein of a novel coronavirus can infect the cells of a human being.

July 2020 study

Chinese scientists developed mice with humanlike lungs to test viruses.

Politico reports about a study published in early June 2020 that detailed the work of a team of Chinese researchers from Beijing. The researchers studied genetically modified mice that had lung cells containing the human ACE2 receptor, which is the cell receptor that allows coronaviruses to easily infect human beings.

Several of the scientists involved in the study were linked to the Academy of

After Traveling to US Ahead of COVID-19 Shutdown

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nvestigations are being conducted on suspected Chinese spies carrying work and student visas who returned to the U.S. at the start of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

On June 15th, The Wash-

ington Free Beacon reported about hundreds of Chinese citizens being under investigation after law enforcement officials flagged their travel schedule in January 2020. At the time, President Donald Trump took action by signing an executive order that restricted the entry of noncitizens and residents from China on Jan. 31, 2020.

An internal report obtained by the media outlet detailing the investigations was circulated among various national security and law enforcement agencies on Jun. 3, 2020. The report suggested that Chinese students had returned to the U.S. ahead of their planned schedule so as to avoid pandemic-induced travel restrictions.

According to the report, “the team examined 58,000 inbound Chinese F/J visa holders in the (Passenger Name Record) database and identified 396 individuals whose return travel was (scheduled) after January 2020 but had returned in January 2020.”

Confirmation from intelligence officials is pending

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An April 2020 report by The Sun cites a research paper from December 2017 that details the experiments on mice conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The mice were injected with a virus that traced their neural activity. Some of them had metal pieces implanted on their heads. Wires were attached to the tails. The mice were then given electric shocks.

The experiments aimed to generate fear in mice that were put in cages with electrified doors. Loud noises would be played. One of the tests involved dehydrating the animals for 23 hours and then forcing them to run on a wheel in order to be rewarded with water. After the tests were conducted, the mice were killed and their brains were dissected. WIV was involved in developing the virus as well as preparing brain samples.

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Suspected Chinese Spies Under Investigated

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as to whether the Chinese nationals carrying student visas were indeed spies. However, the coordinated change in travel schedules strongly suggests that a substantial number of Chinese nationals had knowledge about how severe the COVID-19 situation would be ahead of time.

It was not until Jan. 31, 2020 that the World Health

Fox News cites data from White Coat Waste Project to report that the WIV was involved in research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). One of the grants, worth $3.4 million, involved injecting viruses into the brains of mice.

Another grant, worth $3.7 million, was given to research bat coronaviruses. The exact amount received by WIV is unknown since the institute was one of the many which collaborated on such research.

Organization declared COVID-19 a global health emergency, despite the fact that China had placed the city of Wuhan under quarantine eight days prior on Jan. 23.

In addition, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted a detailed investigation into research grants provided in 2019. In June 2020, over 50 scientists who had received NIH grants were fired because they refused to disclose their connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and other foreign governments.

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ccording to Wall Street behemoth JPMorgan, the fairytale spun by pundits about Reddit’s WallStreetBets organizing to “squeeze” badly positioned hedge fund short sellers of video game retailer Gamestop (NYSE: GME) in what has been affectionately dubbed the “Gamestop Rebellion” is simply false.

Peng Cheng, the JPMorgan quantitative and derivatives strategy analyst, wrote to clients in a note: “Although retail buying was portrayed as the main driver of the extreme price rally experienced by some stocks, the actual picture may be much more nuanced,” according to CNBC.

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et another major online security breach was revealed on Wednesday, June 9. An unknown malware application reportedly collected the private login information of over 3.2 million Windows PCs over the span of two years.

Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, eBay, Facebook, Gmail, LinkedIn, and Twitter users were affected. Hackers gained access to nearly 26 million login credentials from over one million websites, and stored them in a massive database with 1.2 terabytes of private information.

According to a detailed report

by Nordlocker, a cybersecurity provider, the malware was transmitted through emails and illegal software, which included a pirated copy of Adobe Photoshop 2018, a Windows cracking tool, and a number of cracked games. Nordlocker created the report in collaboration with a thirdparty company that specializes in data breach research.

In some instances, files included “notepads” with sensitive data such as credit card information and bank login details. There were also around one million images and at least 650,000 Word or PDF files.

The malware that extracted the data snapped a screenshot after infecting the computer, along with a picture using the computer’s webcam. The malware also stole private data from file-sharing clients, messaging apps, email clients, and gaming clients.

On the Nordlocker blog, cybersecurity expert John Sears commented, “The stolen database contained 1.2 TB of files, cookies, and credentials that came from 3.2 million Windows-based computers. The data was stolen between 2018 and 2020. The database included 2 billion cookies. The analysis revealed that over 400 million, or 22 percent of those cookies were still valid at the time when the database was discovered.”

The database of stolen information housed two billion browser cookies and 6.6 million files.

He added, “We want to make it clear: we did not purchase this database nor would we condone other parties doing it. A hacker group revealed the database location accidentally.” The report explained that cookies allow hackers to gain an accurate understanding of the specific interests and behavioural patterns of each victim.

Cookies can also be used to gain access to a victim’s online banking accounts.

Alon Gal, co-founder and CTO of security firm Hudson Rock, said in an interview with Wired magazine that this type of userspecific data is often first accrued by stealer malware installed by an attacker aiming to steal cryptocurrency or commit a similar kind of cyber crime.

Gal added, “the attacker then will likely then try to steal cryptocurrencies, and once he is done with the information, he will sell to groups whose expertise is ransomware, data breaches, and corporate espionage.”

Users who are concerned about their online safety or need to check whether their data has been exposed have access to a number of methods. For example, the haveibeenpwnd. com site helps users to find out whether data from their email or phone has been compromised. If their email or phone number is flagged, they are urged to change their password immediately.

NordLocker has not been able to identify the malware used in this particular instance.

Gal mentioned to Wired magazine that the most widely used malware during 2018 and 2019 were Azorult and Raccoon. After the malware infected the victim’s PC, the targeted data would be sent to a command server controlled by the attacker.

Whistleblower Doctor Cancelled by Canadian Health Authority After Going Public Over Vaccine Neurological Reactions

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Canadian doctor who blew the whistle on severe neurological adverse reactions suffered by patients in his small First Nations community in British Columbia after accepting the Moderna COVID-19 mRNA injection has been disciplined by a Provincial health authority for promoting vaccine hesitancy.

After Dr. Charles Hoffe went public with his experiences in early April of multiple First Nations patients in his village of Lytton who suffered from severe and unique Bell’s Palsy and other neurological adverse effects after receiving the Moderna vaccine, Hoffe was disciplined by BC’s Interior Health Authority only a few weeks later.

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rior Health Authority (IHA) suspended my clinical privileges, for the crime of causing ‘vaccine hesitancy,’ for speaking out about my vaccine injured patients. So I am no longer allowed to work in the ER,” Hoffe told True North in a May 25 article.

On May 11, Canada’s public broadcaster CBC published an article with a warning from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, the medical equivalent of the bar association or law society for doctors, that practitioners who do not tow the party line on vaccines and health mandates will face disciplinary actions.

In Hoffe’s original interviews with media the doctor said several of his patients had been scared into taking the vaccine in order to protect themselves or the elders in their communities, despite COVID-19 being “less than the flu for every-

her face paralyzed in addition to severe headaches and vertigo. Hoffe said the woman had been unable to drive or go to work for the last three months.

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one in our community who has had it so far.”

After accepting the injections, according to Hoffe, several of his patients have borne what had become long term neurological disorders and disabilities, including a 38-year-old woman who experienced immediate anaphylactic shock followed by a peculiarly painful manifestation of Bell’s Palsy. As the disorder progressed, it left half

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On June 21, Hoffe gave a follow up interview to independent media outlet Rebel News. During the interview Hoffe explained the circumstances surrounding his IHA suspension from Lytton’s emergency room.

Hoffe said after he first stepped forward he was told he was not allowed to say “anything negative about the vaccine” in Lytton’s public health facility, and would be reported to the College if he did.

He also said if he had any questions about the vaccine situation, he was not to speak to his peers in the medical profession, but only to the government’s central health authority.

A question of conscience and justice

The doctor said he has no regrets about speaking out, “I think the reason why it was important for me to speak out is because as a doctor I am bound by ethical principles. And that is the Hippocratic Oath, as sort of the bedrock of ethics…So, on the basis of that, when I saw people who were being harmed, people who were told that a vaccine were safe and they were being harmed by it, I had an ethical duty to advocate for them, and that is why I spoke out.”

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‘People Choose To Be Brainwashed’

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North Korean defector who fled the communist dystopia at the age of 13 says she sees alarming similarities between the state of modern America and her home country after attending a U.S. ivy league university.

Yeonmi Park and her family fled North Korea to China in 2007 through human traffickers. When Park and her mother arrived in Chinese Communist Party terHuman rights activ- ritory, the smugist and North Korean glers raped her defector Yeonmi Park mother and sold (Image:Juddweiss/Wikimedia/CC t he mot herBY-SA 4.0) daughter duo for a combined $325.

The duo eventually escaped through the Gobi Desert in Mongolia to South Korea in 2009. Park transferred to Columbia University from South Korea in 2016.

In a June 14 interview given to Fox News, Park shared her dismay with the culture of political correctness and indoctrination she experienced at the U.S. university, emphasizing her concern that America is heading in the same direction as North Korea and China.

Speaking of both her peers and teachers, Park said, “Power can corrupt. That’s the nature of power. And when they’re just dying to give their rights and power to [the] government, that’s what scares me the most.”

“And of course because they are taking this for granted, they don’t know how hard it is to be free.”

She said when she came to America she loved to read books because in North Korea they did not teach the human race’s history, about iconic figures such as Jesus Christ, or even the Big Bang Theory. Park recounted an experience she had at Columbia University’s orientation where one of the orientors asked her group who loves Jane Austin and other classical writers. When Park raised her hand, naively admitting she loved reading the works of classical authors, she was admonished by the staff member who claimed the authors of America’s classics had a “colonial mindset” or were “racists or bigots.”

North Korean students take part in a rally denouncing 'defectors from the North' in Pyongyang on June 8, 2020.

Park used an example of the education she received as a young girl in North Korea to elucidate the situation, “In the math problems, they would say ‘There are four American bastards. If you kill two of them, then how many American bastards are left to kill?’ When I was like, seven years old, you say ‘two’.” “‘American Bastard’ was one word for North Koreans. We were not allowed to call Americans as, like, Americans.”

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They are subconsciously brainwashing you,” said Park “And that’s when I realized ‘wow. This is insane.’ I literally thought America was that different and I just saw so much similarity that I saw in North Korea and I started worrying about this country.”

“Mainstream education is purposely designed now to make people resent western democracy.”

Calling it “appalling,” Park, who gave a TED talk in 2019 and has given interviews to publications such as NBC, New York Post, and The Sun, said that the politically correct narrative prevalent at Columbia “Tried to explain things from [the perspective that] everything was all about white men and how they tried to overpower, and how, you know, white men destroyed the humanity.”

“Mao killed the most people in all of human history,” rebutted Park in dismay. “He killed like 50 millions of Chinese during the Cultural Revolution. Hitler killed like 16 million people. The kids don’t understand it. They’re still playing with fire with this ideology like communism or socialism.”

Park said her experience at a U.S. university made her think that perhaps North Korea wasn’t the extreme place she believed it to be growing up, “North Korea was pretty crazy.

But not this crazy. What’s shocking to me is that North Koreans, we don’t have internet, we don’t have access to Shakespere or any of these great thinkers. We don’t know. But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed, and they deny it.”

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The global supply chain has already been hit by two crises.

The first was triggered by the economic recovery in various parts of the world late last year. This led to a boom in buying which ended up resulting in a shortage of shipping containers. Consequently, there were massive delays in shipping goods from China to the West which drove up costs for businesses and consumers.

The second crisis was the Ever Given container getting stuck in the Suez Canal in March, an incident that blocked the water route for almost a week and held up around $9 billion in international trade daily. And now, the Guangdong viral breakout is looking to complicate the matter further.

Guangdong shipping crisis

According to Brian Glick, founder and CEO at supply chain integration platform Chain. io, the disruptions in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, two cities in Guangdong, are “absolutely massive.” Combined, “they would have an unprecedented supply chain impact,” he said to CNBC. When taking into account the challenges faced by the global supply chain this year, the shipping industry is in “absolutely unchartered waters.”

Both Guangzhou and Shenzhen are some of the largest shipping ports in the world by container volume. Guangdong accounts for roughly 24 percent of total Chinese exports. JP Wiggins, vice president of corporate development at shipping software firm 3GTMS, advised people to “expect shortages,” with some Asian-origin products estimated to be out of stock.

“I think the risk of supply chain disruption is rising, and export prices/shipping costs will likely rise further. Guangdong Province plays a critical role in the global supply chain,” Zhang Zhiwei, chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management, said to CNBC. “Basically we had a similar experience last year so we have experience in responding, only the increase in transport

I think the risk of supply chain disruption is rising, and export prices/shipping costs will likely rise further.

Guangdong Province plays a critical role in the global supply chain,” Zhang Zhiwei, chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management, said to CNBC.

costs are getting really astonishing. The freight fees are reflected in the increase in material costs which are up by around 15%-30% already,” a sales manager at an electronics cable manufacturer in Shenzhen, told Reuters.

In an interview with BBC, Peter Sands, chief shipping analyst at the industry organization Bimco, stated that the sector is used to responding to such crises and these states of emergency have now almost become a permanent situation.

However, Sands said that authorities at Yantian port are not being open and transparent enough which ends up hampering their ability to draw up contingency plans.

Christmas shipping, rising costs

James Baker, containers editor at shipping industry publication Lloyd’s List, believes that the current disruption in shipping could continue for a minimum of 12 more months, during which consumers from North America and Europe would have to wait longer to get their goods. He stated that retailers are already putting in their orders for Christmas goods, which also contributes to the congestion in the supply chain.

“Traditionally, the peak season for container shipping starts in the third quarter as everyone stocks up for the holiday season in the west, but this year we’re just in a permanent peak season already, and heaven knows what’s going to happen come August or September. It could get crazy. It’s very hard to tell,” Baker said to BBC. The cost of moving a 40-foot sea container to Dubai from China is hovering around $5,000 while earlier the cost used to be just around $1,000. The cost of shipping a container from China to Europe recently exceeded $10,000 for the first time, a 500-percent increase since June 2020.

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herd of wild Asian elephants migrating through southwest China after trekking more than 300 miles from their home. This herd has wandered and is lying flat and sleeping into the suburbs of the Chinese city of Kunming.

Chinese experts say that this is very rare.

Maybe they are too tired?

The 15 wild Asian elephants left China's Xi-shuang-banna National Nature Reserve in March 2020, heading north, and have been wandering for almost a year and four months now, with no one knowing when they will stop.

As time passes, their hope of returning home is becoming slimmer.

Initially, there were 17 elephants. On December 17, 2020, the herd entered Mojiang County and gave birth to a baby elephant on the way.

Two elephants went further then returned to Mojiang County, while the remaining 15 continued their journey, including six adult females, three males, three juveniles, and three baby elephants.

They crossed almost half of Yunnan Province, entering Yuxi City in April then, on June 2, Kunming City, the capital city of Yunnan, covering nearly 500 kilometers.

This appears to be the explanation by the director of the reserve to the public via national television.

The further north the herd is, the less food there is and the closer it is to human settlements. Usually, the routines of Asian elephants are the opposite of humans'.

When humans are active, elephants will not come out, so, in the past, people seldom met elephants.

Wandering Elephants Epic, Mysterious and Hard In addition to the food source, Asian elephants' habitat cannot be too small and must not be on a steep slope.

The elephant's favorite slope is less than 10 degrees.

Over 30 degrees, it is more difficult for them to walk.

Asian elephants generally live at an altitude of fewer than 1000 meters, and it is rare to see them over 1300 meters. But this group of wandering elephants is now in a location over 2000 meters' elevation and sometimes has to walk in steep mountain areas. Due to the rising altitude, food in the mountains and forests is less available, making it worse for them to survive.

Some people think that the elephants are accidentally lost and cannot find their way home. The Director of the Institute of Xi-shuangbanna National Nature Reserve, Guo told Xinhua News Agency, China's official broadcaster, "Elephants are very intelligent, with an IQ equivalent to that of a fiveor six-year-old child. They

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also have an excellent memory. Someone commented that the elephant herd is lost.

However, the herd doesn't know the way ahead, but it must know the way back."

Elephants eat grass, not wild fruits. The Xi-shuangbanna National Nature Reserve covers 3.6 million acres and is owned by the state. The forests in reserve are getting denser. As the trees get bigger and more prolific, there is less vegetation under the trees.

There are some villages spread out in reserve. Since 1983, the hills and land have been divided for local villagers to use, not under the reserve's jurisdiction. Residents have the right to decide on the use of the land.

According to the local Forestry Bureau, the low altitude areas, which used to produce food, are now mainly developed into rubber plantations and some tea and coffee plantations. The latter is an important economic source for local farmers.

If a rubber plantation is

not finely treated, the grass that Asian elephants love to eat will grow among the trees. There is already a situation where wild elephants run into the field in the local area, searching for grass to eat. It has brought distress to the farmers.

Director Guo said that odds are high for the elephants to eat in the farmers' fields. The government has given minimal compensation to local farmers for direct damage, about a third or a quarter of the market price. Indirect losses are not compensated at all.

An expert who has been tracking Asian elephants for many years pointed out that, after years of observation, they found that the uncontrolled migration of wild elephants can bring great harm to both humans and elephants. Returning to their habitat is the best option.

The herd of stray elephants was first noticed in midApril. Since then, there have been more than 400 incidents in 40 days, directly damaging 842 acres of crops, with a pre-

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liminary estimate of direct economic loss close to $6.8 million.

Director Guo said, "Asian elephants hate dogs in particular. When they see dogs, they trample them to death.

Previously, several cases of elephants killing people were because dogs ran to their owners. Asian elephants will also attack humans when frightened."

But China hasn't reported any casualties so far. Most of the damage caused by the herd has been trampling farmland, destroying buildings, and stealing food from people. On the night of May 27, six elephants from the herd broke into a car dealership, drank all the water from a bucket, and then went next door to a home and trampled the residents' vegetable patch.

The Chinese people have been generally friendly to the herd. One woman said in an interview, "It's the first time the elephants have been here, so it's no big deal if they eat and drink a little."

Is it possible to put the ele-

phants under anesthesia and return them to the reserve?

Experts worry that with the number of young elephants in the herd, anesthesia could easily anger other adult elephants and cause the herd to get out of control.

Some areas have tried a blockade to force the elephants to change their path but have failed.

The media praised government departments for organizing tracking teams to feed the elephants and using drones to keep a close eye on their movements. China's Phoenix.com wrote: "The elephants have replaced the giant pandas, and in tracking them, they have shown the world the magnitude of China's cities, its beautiful environment, and its ability to track herds of elephants with high-tech equipment..."

Director Guo believes that with hundreds of people following them and 24-hour drone surveillance, the elephant herd may be in a manic mood and perhaps not have enough time to sleep, and even if they do, they cannot sleep well.

If this goes on for a long time, they may be so manic that they could collapse. He called for the elephant herd to be left alone to rest in the forest.

It’s impossible to determine where the herd’s final destination is, or if there even is one. But so far, they show no signs of stopping.

Many experts believe that there have been signs of wandering away when the 17 wild elephants left the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in March 2020.

Had actions been taken at that time, it would have been much easier to bring back the herd to the reserve than it is now.

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A colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this picture from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The image shows the Orion nebula, a happening place where stars are born.

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The study considered the brain's neural network as a universe in itself, with approximately 69 billion neurons.

Conversely, the observable universe has a web of at least 100 billion galaxies.

rofessor Franco Vazza of the University of Bologna and neurosurgeon Alberto Feletti of the University of Verona compared the two most challenging and intricate systems known to science: the neuronal cell networks in human brains and the cosmic web of galaxies in the universe. In their paper "Frontiers in Physics," published on November 16, 2020, the authors found that the two structures were surprisingly similar.

While the two networks vary significantly in size, their structures and mechanisms are strangely similar. Researchers studied the design, morphology, memory capability, and other attributes. Their quantitative analysis discovered that disparate physical processes could create structures sharing levels of complexity and organization, even though they differ in size by 27 orders of magnitude.

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Coincidentally, about 30% of the universe is composed of galaxies. About 70% of both systems' mass comes from a passive component: water in the brain and dark energy in the universe.

Although the relevant physical interactions in the above two systems are completely different, their observation through microscopic and telescopic techniques have captured a tantalizing similar morphology, to the point that it has often been noted that the cosmic web and the web of neurons look alike," wrote the researchers.

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he scientists also studied matter density fluctuations in the brain and the cosmic web to observe how the fluxes of matter disperse on such different scales.

"We calculated the spectral density of both systems." Dr. Vazza explained: "This is a technique often employed in cosmology for studying the spatial distribution of galaxies. Our analysis showed that the distribution of the fluctuation within the cerebellum neuronal network on a scale from 1 micrometer to 0.1 millimeters follows the same progression of the distribution of matter in the cosmic web but, of course, on a larger scale that goes from 5 million to 500 million lightyears."

The results further confirmed the surprising resemblance between these two complex networks in that they were more similar to one another than they were to their components. The brain's network of neurons closer resembles the universe's cosmic web than to the brain's cells itself. Conversely, the universe has more in common with the brain's network of neurons than with its galaxies and stars.

The promising results of this study are encouraging scientists to believe that new and effective analysis methods in cosmology and neurosurgery will lead to a better understanding of the dynamics behind the temporal evolution of these two systems.

The mind is a whole universe of connections, a universe within a bigger universe. It appears everything is interconnected in this universe. Lao Tzu said, "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

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hy do some people seem to have all the luck, while others just can’t ever get ahead?

When misfortunes pile up one after another, it’s hard to see a path out of it. What everyone needs to know is that, through our thoughts and behavior, we can summon good luck and reject the bad. While people often rely on simple things like changing their name, applying Feng Shui, and using lucky charms, these have limited effects.

Taking steps to modify your psychology, behavior and lifestyle, however, can have real and lasting effects that will improve your lot in life and bring you peace of mind at the same time. If you are having a string of bad luck, you may want to consider applying some of these 12 recommended practices for improving your luck.

I. Accepting destiny What is accepting destiny? It is to calmly embrace life’s challenges and difficulties. The law of balance governs life’s highs and lows. The lower it gets, the higher it will bounce back.

When faced with bad luck and bad fortune, instead of feeling discouraged, overwhelmed, or wasting time to go against it, accept it and embrace destiny. Fighting it will only delay the balance of good fortune that is coming.

II. Cultivating the mind Everything is perception, created by the mind alone. There exists no absolute good or bad, as things are constantly evolving and transforming. To cultivate the mind is to remove attachments and observe one’s true self. In other words, do not force anything. Allow your true nature to emerge.

III. Seize the day One must take advantage of opportunity when it knocks.

Chances to change your situation come fast and frequently.

Don’t miss them! Most important are the ones related to the heart and spirit. Difficulties bring opportunities for contemplation, observation, and spiritual growth. This kind of activity uses the brain’s “ultra-low wave frequency,” which sends out one’s true call for change.

These brain waves work both ways, to be sure. If a person does not relinquish negative thoughts, and continues to dwell on how unlucky he is, misfortune will continue to manifest.

When one adjusts his or her thinking, it germinates a positive trend. While it is difficult to change one’s thinking all at once, one can start with small steps, such as, “this is a test; good luck is waiting for me.” This message alone can help improve one’s attitude; and when it comes from the heart, it connects with the spiritual world, where miracles can happen.

IV. Generosity An ancient proverb in China says, “Give away money to avert a disaster” (Pò cái miaˇn zāi). It was traditionally believed, “As poverty or prosperity are pre-determined by the gods, it is futile to try to beat the divine plan.”

Taking money lightly, and learning to give freely can bring quick positive returns. As the saying goes, “no loss, no gain (bù shī bù dé).” This applies not only to money, but also to your time and attention, or anything that you value. When you can let something go, you’ve shown that your heart is in the right place and good things will come to you. If you are feeling luckless, try giving some money to charity, helping someone in need, or buying someone a gift.

V. Attire Some people love fancy clothing and dress to gain others’ attention and admiration. But wearing expensive clothing and jewelry does not attract good luck, it does the opposite.

The more lavishly the facade is decorated, the more it attracts troublemakers. Such displays of vanity also run the risk of driving away good and sincere friends.

Naturally, one should avoid dressing in a vulgar or unkempt manner, as that would cause one to fall from grace, invite poverty, and attract negative yin (ghostly) spirits. In good times and bad, one should be neither flashy nor vulgar, dress moderately and appropriately, and always maintain a righteous demeanor.

VI. Choose your words wisely There is a Chinese saying that goes, “woes and blessings are self-induced.” (Huò fú zì zhāo). Many people find it much easier to talk than to act, which can bring about boundless misfortune. A person who is out of luck is more likely to complain and say things that are not righteous, thus compounding the problem. The proverb “speech is silver, silence is golden,” tells us to hold our tongue more often than not, but many people find this difficult. Try to remember “One thousand words are not as good as a silent moment,” when you are tempted to run at the mouth.

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VII. Quiet the mind Chinese sages often advised those who were down on their luck to stay at home and avoid trouble. While this is nearly impossible with the various responsibilities one carries in life, avoiding unnecessary activity during these times will reduce the chance of further misfortune. Just as one should watch what one says, one must also watch what one does. Acting unrighteously will attract negative energy and spirits.

VIII. Cleansing diet People often turn to drinking or overeating when times are tough, but this will never solve life’s problems. Keeping a clean and simple diet helps quiet the mind. A quiet and peaceful mind will have fewer desires and purer thoughts, while a light diet will also cleanse the body. When mind and body are both pure, one will be rational and healthy, and better able to resist temptation. While it is not necessary to resort to an overly strict diet, it makes sense to follow the dietary advice of Michael Pollan, author of the best seller “The Omnivore’s Dilemma:” When asked what to eat in this age of ultra-processed, chemically-grown and genetically-altered food-like substances, Pollen advises us: ”Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”

Making good choices in your diet will improve your character by prompting moderation and balance, which each bring their own rewards.

IX. Stepping back It is all too easy to become belligerent when things don’t go one’s way. Here it is vital to keep the proper perspective on the matter. Taking a step back, and trying to see things through others’ eyes helps us to see the big picture. Becoming aggressive and fighting will only bring more trouble, so it is important to remember the principle of karmic retribution. Daoists believe that if you owe others from previous lives, they will seek repayment. Once the debt is paid, the karma is eliminated.

Even if the other party has indeed harmed you, there will be retribution according to nature’s law of cause and effect, so it is not a matter for humans to be overly concerned with.

X. Endurance An ancient Chinese saying advises, “endure a moment of anger and resolve one hundred worries” (rěn yīshí zhī qì, jiě baˇi rì zhī yōu) In trying circumstances, if you keep in mind that all things come to pass, you will be able to endure gracefully. Daoists consider endurance to be a form of training. If one can bear the suffering that others cannot bear, and endure the pain that others cannot endure, one will be able to achieve greatness that others cannot achieve.

It is important to note that endurance is not simply the stifling of anger, however; it involves the conscious acceptance of circumstances, and admitting when one is in the wrong without resenting others.

XI. Vulnerability When our luck is down, there will always be those who insult or offend us, whether intentionally or not. The best way to handle this is to take a submissive attitude. Daoists believe that the soft can overcome the hard, and the weak can defeat the strong. If, when facing a fierce opponent, you can soften your heart, stay calm and avoid anger, you may see the situation quickly turn around. Showing vulnerability will ensure that the situation does not escalate; because, as they say, “It takes two to tango.”

XII. Seeking nothing A popular Chinese poem goes something like this: Pray not for things when luck is absent When the time is right you wi ll have your due If praying for money was fruitful The world would be free of beggars

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Ask them rather to strengthen your resolve, because all your glory and wealth stem from your own virtue.

Good fortune and blessings result from accumulated merit.

If you can keep your thoughts and actions righteous, maintain a balanced and peaceful attitude, and accept your share of misfortune as fair repayment of karmic debt, you will soon experience the blessings you deserve!

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Washing with running water is safer than soaking in water Pesticides often stay on the surface of fruits and vegetables. It is not easy to immerse them in water to remove particles and soaking in water for too long will make water-soluble vitamins disappear from fruits and vegetables.

So pesticide experts recommend that washing them under the tap water forcefully will break the glue-like strength of pesticides.

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Before washing vegetables, cut the top and the bottom off to remove the hardto-clean areas

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Fruits and vegetables should be placed in an area with good air circulation for a few days to help the decomposition of pesticides Most pesticides, having been sprayed a few days before, will be decomposed by the plant enzymes, so waiting for a few days to eat them is a safer practice.

Fruits and vegetables stored in the refrigerator will be reduced to 10 percent of normal activity, as the cold will inhibit the activity of the enzymes in the fruits and they will not be able to break down the pesticide residues at all.

However, this method only applies in cool weather and with non-perishable fruit dishes, including cucumbers, radishes, cabbage, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, onions, and so on.

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Before rinsing, whether it’s the tail of a vegetable or the hard-to-clean part of the green pepper head, it is better to remove it to keep your health. It is also recommended that peeled fruit, even bananas, should be cleaned first and then peeled afterward for consumption; otherwise, the pesticides on the skin of the bananas may get on your hands and increase the chances of contamination.

Vegetables With Peace of Mind

By Emma Lu

With pesticides, insecticides, GMOs, fertilizers, plastics, air pollution, and water pollution, you may often ask yourself: Is anything safe to eat anymore? Where do you turn for help? We suggest 6 common-sense tips for eating fruits and vegetables with peace of mind. It is not always possible or affordable to grow your own organic fruits and vegetables, raise free-range chickens, or get water from your very own spring.

Cooked food not only sterilizes but also removes pesticide residues Cooking can cause residual pesticides to be heated, decomposed, and evaporated as vapor or dissolved into the oily water. The longer the cooking time, the higher the temperature, and the greater the effect of removing pesticide residues.

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An ozone machine is effective, but must be well ventilated Ozone (O3) will cause pulmonary fibrosis and is also a kind of automobile exhaust gas. Using an ozone machine to clean fruits and vegetables should be done in a thoroughly ventilated environment, or at best only done outdoors. Make sure that ozone does not accumulate and harm your body. Negative ion air purifiers also emit ozone, which can harm the human body.

It is a widely circulated old wives’ tale that adding salt to water can wash away pesticides from fruits and vegetables, but actual studies have found that there are fewer pesticides washed away using saltwater than when using clean water.

Translated by Yi Ming and edited by Helen

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