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  1. 5D AGO

    Inside California's Department of Public Health During the Pandemic: How One Man Spoke Truth to Power | Ronald F. Owens

    "Before I clicked send, I looked up & said: "Lord, what are they going to do to me when I send them this email?" And I felt the Lord speak into my spirit: "What am I going to do to you if you don't?" *** When Covid hit, Ronald F. Owens Jr. worked for California's Department of Public Health (CDPH) as a so-called Information Officer 2. His job was to handle media requests related to programs like the Center for Environmental Health, the Center for Family Health and Health Equity. He resigned from CDPH at the end of 2023. In 2024, he published the book "Muzzled Truth: How The California Department of Public Health Rejected COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Health Risks Warnings." Owens Recommends the Use of Ivermectin to His Bosses at CDPH In October 2021, Owens received an internal CDPH email asking him to review a draft website created to warn Californians about the "misuse" of ivermectin in treating COVID-19. Rather than rubber-stamping the draft, Owens spent five days researching the topic, consulting knowledgeable friends and drawing on testimony by Dr. Pierre Kory, who successfully treated over 8,000 COVID patients with ivermectin. Owens then sent his carefully crafted email to senior leadership at California's Department of Public Health, arguing that properly dosed ivermectin should be regarded and endorsed as a viable treatment option for Californians. His bosses at CDPH were displeased - that was not at all the kind of answer they had expected. Owens was told that his opinion was not relevant since he wasn't a physician. In addition, he was told that it's the FDA that makes treatment decisions, not CDPH. And lastly he was told that he should never again include senior leadership in such emails. You wonder why they asked him to comment on the website draft in the first place. Apparently, all they wanted from him was to go along and applaud the website draft about the "misuse" of Ivermectin. That clearly was what those further up expected from employees at California's Department of Public Health. If California's Department of Health Had Endorsed Ivermectin as Treatment Option… Imagine for a moment what the effect had been if CDPH had endorsed the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19. Given California's 40 million residents and CDPH's outsized influence among America's state health departments, a single honest press release about ivermectin would have sent shockwaves across the entire country and could have saved countless lives. Would CDPH have been within its rights to endorse ivermectin despite the fact that the CDC didn't? Yes. Just look at how CDPH defied the new Covid-19 recommendations issued by the FDA and CDC last year and how it continued to recommend regular Covid booster shots for everyone above the age of 6 months. Unfortunately, on March 16, District Court Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction that rolled back all of RFK Jr.'s vaccine policy changes - including the changed Covid-19 injection recommendations. Owens Alerts the CDPH about the Death Toll of the Covid Shots In April 2022, Owens came across a quote from then HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra at a White House "Convening on Equity," in which Becerra appeared to say that COVID-19 shots were "killing people of color… at about two times the rate of white Americans." Owens also reviewed VAERS data showing 26,976 deaths across the U.S. attributed to COVID-19 vaccines at that time. On April 18, 2022, he sent another email to his bosses at California's Department of Public Health alerting them to the horrific death toll of the Covid-19 shots as well as the many serious injuries like strokes, seizures, and heart attacks. Again, management dismissed his concerns. When Owens persisted with his warnings, they issued him a formal counseling memorandum warning him to stop. CDPH Orders Owens to End his Thoughtcrimes The counseling memorandum Owens received was rather Orwellian in nature. He was ordered to correct his wrongthink without delay: "This memo is further intended to direct you in immediately correcting this concern." "This concern" was Owen's concern about the almost 30,000 deaths as well as the huge number of serious injuries doctors and nurses had recorded in VAERS as caused by the Covid shots. By then he knew for sure that he was going to face disciplinary measures. Sooner or later his superiors would dock his pay. He also knew that CDPH would never take his warnings and recommendations seriously. That is why he decided to retire at the end of 2023, years earlier than he would have otherwise. Alerting All 58 California's Boards of Supervisors of Covid Shot Deaths and Injuries After retirement, Owens decided he needed to notify all of California's 58 county governments of the many deaths and injuries the Covid-19 shots caused in California. Why? The plan is to deny county supervisors plausible deniability regarding the immense harms the injections cause. Without plausible deniability, Californian supervisors can be held legally responsible at some point for not having done anything to stop the shots. He told me: "The California Department of Public Health has a partnership with the counties and I'm performing my public information officer role by informing the counties about the danger of the COVID-19 vaccine. When I finish what I'm doing, every county, all 58 counties will have three written notifications: one from July 2024, and one from December 2024. At the time that I appear [before a Board of Supervisors], I follow up by sending them a third email… So each county will have three written notifications and one in-person appearance per county. I'm providing documentation for somebody in the future to hold these public officials accountable legally." When I interviewed him, he had already spoken in front of 51 Boards of Supervisors and was getting ready for a long trip on his motorbike to speak in front of the 52nd one. CHAPTERS 0:00:05 Ronald's CDPH Role and Book 0:05:39 CDPH Growth and Clout 0:13:10 Budget, Scale, and Reach 0:15:01 Website Image and DEI 0:19:15 Measles vs Vaccine Deaths 0:22:39 State vs Federal Power 0:37:02 The Ivermectin Email 0:51:39 Inside CDPH During COVID 1:06:20 Ronald's Vaccine Warning Email 1:17:51 Becerra's "Equity" Remarks 1:25:20 Hospital Protocols and Harm 1:36:20 County Board "Odyssey" 1:53:25 Retirement and Ongoing Mission RESOURCES Muzzledtruth.com Ronald Owens Featured on Sharyl Attkisson's Full Measure Motorcyclist Warns CA County Sups About COVID-19 Vaccine Risks Fresno County Board of Supervisors Informed on 8/19/25 About COVID-19 Shot Injuries & Deaths 'Why Are We Not Stopping the Shots,' Sac County Supervisor Sue Frost Asks White House Convening on Equity - YouTube Holy Spirit Inspired me to Sing 'Glory Hallelujah' Worship Song - Ronald Owens

    2h 10m
  2. MAR 20

    Behind the Scenes at a Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Center in California | Julie Threet

    "I witnessed 43,000 people get shot with poison… It weighs heavy on my heart but it fuels me." —Julie Threet https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/when-bla-licensure-becomes-a-deadly Throughout 2021, Julie Threet worked as a volunteer at the largest mass vaccination center in the city of Chico in Butte County, California. She was fired at the beginning of January 2022 because she refused to receive a booster shot. In our interview, she describes in detail the center's daily operations and how she turned from trusting the shots to fearing them to tirelessly advocating for their removal from the market. Until today, Julie has warned about the injections over a hundred times in front of 33 different Californian County Boards of Supervisors. CHAPTERS 0:01:08 Setting the Scene: Life in Butte County, California and Julie's Move to Chico 0:01:48 Julie's Background: From Silicon Valley HR Executive to Chico Community Activist 0:04:39 Early Local Activism: Fighting Syringe Distribution in Chico Parks 0:05:54 Character of Butte County: Rural Economy, Disasters, and Community Response 0:07:46 Volunteering at Enloe Medical Center: Role as Patient Ambassador 0:09:05 Enloe as Largest Employer: Comparison with White Plains Hospital and Local Economies 0:10:07 Enloe's History, Foundation, Political Ties, and Influence in Butte County 0:14:48 Volunteers and Covid: Being Sent Home and Inconsistencies in Risk Logic 0:18:42 Arrival of Covid Vaccines and Creation of Mass Vaccination Clinics in Chico 0:23:35 Inside the Draw Room: Storage, Thawing Protocols, and Handling of Moderna Vials 0:31:56 Time, Temperature, and Potential Degradation of Vaccine Doses 0:35:00 Julie's Own Moderna Shots: Arm Reactions, Brain Fog, and Discovery of Brain Lesion 0:40:19 Neurologist Visit, Microangiopathy Diagnosis, and Lack of Linkage to Vaccines 0:42:51 The Whiteboard System: Lot Numbers, Daily Dose Targets, and Throughput Tracking 0:47:38 Appointment System, Age/Occupation Tiers, and Daily Volume per Clinic Day 0:48:43 Funding and Incentives: State Money, Brewery Donations, and Becerra's Grants 0:50:00 Early Manual Data Entry: Paper Forms, Missing Records, and Error Potential 0:53:24 Transition to Tablets: Capturing Dose Details and Lot Numbers Digitally 0:55:47 California's Immunization Registry and Digital Vaccine IDs 1:00:00 State and Federal Data Flows: How Vaccination Statistics Are Built and Used 1:02:53 Comparing Butte vs Santa Clara: Vaccination Rates and Covid Case/Death Rates 1:05:22 Countywide Lot Tracking: FOIA Data on Doses per Lot in Butte County 1:08:05 Manufacturing and Distribution Patterns: Fragmented Lots and Concealment of Harm 1:10:00 Moderna Lot Recall in California and Butte County's Failure to Notify Recipients 1:12:16 Political, Financial, and Institutional Pressures in Butte County Public Health 1:15:23 Conservative Politics, Medical Establishment Power, and Captured Officials 1:18:54 Weekly Testing Pavilion: Segregating Unvaccinated Staff 1:32:00 Mass-Vaccination Floor Layout: Nurse Stations, Patient Flow, and "Disneyland Line"

    2h 13m
  3. MAR 8

    When BLA Licensure Becomes a Deadly Joke: Absurdities of Moderna's Nonclinical Spikevax Studies | Sasha Latypova

    "This evidence, it was like a light bulb for me when I saw this transcript." —Sasha Latypova   This is the third, the last and, I believe, the most revealing part of my interview with Sasha Latypova about CHD's Citizen Petition to revoke BLA status from Pfizer's and Moderna's Covid-19 shots.   ***   What Was the Purpose of Submitting All These Nonsensical Studies? The purpose, Latypova says, was to "just produce a pile of paper to say, 'we did a lot of things and yeah, maybe it's not totally complete, but it's mostly good.'" It was all for show. The goal was to get the toxic Covid-19 shots into the bodies of hundreds of millions of Americans without any accountability from manufacturers and federal agencies. To reach that goal, the federal government, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry, media and big tech, stripped citizens of their civil rights, lied blatantly to the public, deceived the public and forced millions of Americans to be injected. The studies shown are just a few examples among many. In its Citizen Petition, Children's Health Defense goes over lots of other such studies that show no compliance whatsoever with biologic licensing standards. BLA approval was granted to Moderna (and also to Pfizer) on the basis of piles of paper that really were piles of sh*t. Misbranding is way too nice a word for this crime.   CHAPTERS 0:00:05 FDA–Operation Warp Speed meeting and shift to EUA pathway 0:02:52 IND filings, non‑investigational "countermeasures" route, "magic leap" 0:05:20 Legal meaning of IND and investigational status 0:08:28 Introduction to Moderna's nonclinical program: Judicial Watch FOIA records 0:09:54 Non‑GLP pharmacology studies and NIH involvement 0:11:34 Flawed biodistribution study: wrong product, non‑GLP, male‑only rats 0:15:52 Toxicology with non‑representative mRNAs 0:18:21 Systemic BLA non‑compliance and objectives of the citizen petition 0:21:07 PREP Act as governing law & misbranding argument 0:26:23 Informed consent, PREP Act, RFK Jr's role & doctors' ethical dilemma

    31 min
  4. MAR 1

    Does Shedding Kill? Correlations Between Injected Teens and Adult Female Mortality | Hervé Seligmann

    "What you see is the more children 10 to 14 were injected, the more women died of cancers overall in 2021 compared to the previous year." Hervé Seligmann This is my second interview with biologist Dr. Hervé Seligmann. He has held academic positions at Aix-Marseille University, University of Oslo, Louisiana State University, the University of Chicago, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. *** Strong Positive Correlations between Teenage Vaccination Rates and Increased Death Rates in Adult Females About a year ago, Seligmann discovered the University of Washington's Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx). This database, maintained by the University's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), contains the world's most comprehensive health and demographic data from 1980 to the present. Seligmann said: "For around 200 countries and around 200 or more diseases, they give you the death rates and the yearly incidences of all of these diseases for each country and also by sex and by age classes." When Seligmann discovered this rich data depository in early spring 2025, data were available only until 2021. He found that strange but was nonetheless happy to have at least data for 2020 and 2021. He downloaded the death rates for 2020 and 2021 from 26 countries for about 60 types of diseases - cancers as well as cardiovascular, neurological and gastroenterological diseases - and he also downloaded the injection rates cumulated over the previous month up to mid 2021 for each of the age classes provided. Then he checked for correlations and found strong positive ones between teenage vaccination rates, in particular for ages 10 to 14, and increased death rates from almost all cancer and disease types in adult females - with virtually no such correlation in adult males. CHAPTERS 0:00:04 – Intro and Herve Seligmann's background 0:02:30 – Using GHDx global health data 0:07:59 – Teen injections vs spike in female cancer deaths (2021) 0:11:30 – Interpreting the female-only signal and shedding hypothesis 0:22:30 – Data for 2020–2021 changes between spring and autumn 2025 0:27:35 – Can these updated datasets still be trusted? 0:39:56 – 2022–2023: shifting from shedding to direct injection effects 0:45:22 – "Priming" idea: injections heighten response to later shedding 0:51:31 – Ongoing boosters in older people vs dropping uptake in teens 1:07:26 – Organ-specific cancer deaths vs Pfizer biodistribution data 1:19:40 – Summary: vaccines as main driver, mechanisms remain complex RESOURCES Google Scholar - Hervé Seligmann COVID Vaccination and Age-Stratified All-Cause Mortality Risk, 2025-09-17 ScholarGPS Global Health Data Exchange, University of Washington

    1h 29m
  5. FEB 22

    How the FDA Lied to the American People About Covid-19 'Clinical Trials' | Sasha Latypova

    "Vaccines can reach the arms of Americans under investigational or non-investigational pathways that are separate and distinct." —Citizen Petition Regarding Covid-19 Vaccine Licensure https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/how-the-fda-lied-to-the-american?utm_source=youtube This is the second part of my interview with Sasha Latypova in which we discuss the petition's arguments in detail. The petition was filed in December 2025 by Children's Health Defense to request that the FDA revoke the Biologics License Application approvals (BLAs) for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 shots. Latypova wrote extensive parts of the petition. THE PETITION'S CORE LEGAL ARGUMENT Products developed under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) cannot simply be granted Biologics License Applications (BLAs). It's like declaring sewage to be water. But the FDA retroactively granted Pfizer's and Moderna's mRNA Covid-19 vaccines full BLA approval they never legally earned. Therefore, the citizen petition argues, these products have been misbranded. Misbranding is not a minor infraction, Sasha Latypova told me, but a federal crime that can trigger seizure, injunction, criminal penalties, and license revocation. WHY IS MISBRANDING SUCH A BIG DEAL? It's a long and difficult process to obtain BLA approval from the FDA. Under section 351 of the Public Health Service Act, FDA may approve a BLA only if the vaccine is shown to be safe, pure, and potent for its intended use. In addition, it must be manufactured in facilities that consistently meet regulatory standards. Usually, it takes many years to obtain BLA approval. CHAPTERS 0:00:05 Citizen Petition Overview and Claim of Vaccine Misbranding 0:01:38 FDA's Original Mandate: Misbranding, Adulteration, Interstate Commerce 0:02:35 Federal vs State Authority and Possibility of State‑Level Divergence 0:05:04 Misbranding as a Serious Federal Crime and FDA's Dormant Powers 0:05:36 Investigational vs Non‑Investigational (EUA) Pathways 0:09:02 PREP Act Origins and Congressional Justification for EUA Countermeasures 0:13:08 No True Clinical Trials: EUA Products and "The Trial Charade" 0:14:46 Brooke Jackson's Case 0:22:59 Media Framing: "Technicalities" vs Binding Law on Labeling and Pathways 0:27:39 Core Demands of the Petition: Revoke BLAs, Re‑Designate as EUA Products 0:29:43 Informed Consent, Nuremberg Legacy, and the Missing IRB Oversight 0:32:45 EUA Products Cannot Be Mandated – Yet Mandates Were Imposed Anyway 0:34:53 EUA Suspends FDCA Safeguards: cGMP Deviations and Non‑Regulation 0:39:56 Expiration Date Extensions and the 2069 Pfizer Lot Anomaly 0:48:46 Comparing BLA Standards vs EUA: Safety, Purity, Potency, Sterility, Identity 0:54:31 Manufacturing Process Validation and Extreme Lot‑to‑Lot Variability 1:05:30 Petition's Legal Conclusion on FDA Violations

    1h 7m
  6. FEB 15

    Deadly Chain of Command: From Federal Bureaucrats to Hospital CFOs to Doctors | Ken McCarthy

    "When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age. We are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago For the entire post, click here: https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/deadly-chain-of-command-from-federal Few Americans Know About the Extent of Medical Murders During Covid This is the third and last part of my interview with Ken McCarthy, author of 'What the Nurses Saw - An Investigation Into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospitals During the COVID Panic.' It's almost exactly six years since the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic. But way too few people in America know about the extent of the systemic medical murders that the nurses saw. His book, McCarthy told me, is a witness to the crimes that happened during the Pandemic: "If you witness a crime, if you witness somebody being abused, you're sort of obligated as a human being to try to interfere or at a minimum report it to somebody who can intervene and help. So that's the function of this book. It exists. People do read it. It's slowly moving its way through the world. And I hope more and more people become aware of it, become aware of the stories so that they can protect themselves." Medicine's Return to the Middle Ages McCarthy is convinced that medicine is firmly back in the Middle Ages. Back then, he said, there were "a lot of insane medical practices and they were validated or authorized by the ultimate authority, which happened to be the Catholic Church… We are literally back to where medicine is being authorized and promulgated [by an entity] that has nothing to do with medicine, has nothing to do with science, has nothing to do with public health. It is simply a directive from the most powerful forces in the society, which now are the federal governments." Remdesivir Approved for Prematurely Born Babies Remdesivir, one of Fauci's pet drugs, is a good example of such insane practices not rooted in science. Nurses nicknamed Remdesivir 'Run! Death Is Near.' The drug, which is known for its extreme toxicity - it leads to kidney failure among a host of other adverse events - received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in April 2020, followed by FDA approval in October 2020 but limited to children older than eleven years. One month later, in November 2020, the WHO advised against the use of Remdesivir for Covid-19 patients. The drug was subsequently discontinued in Europe. But not in America. Not to this day. In the United States, the drug remained under Emergency Use Authorization for children younger than 12 until spring 2022 when it received FDA approval for pediatric use for all children older than 27 days. Yes, you read that right: days. CHAPTERS 0:00:05 Remdesivir's EUA and FDA approval 0:01:30 Remdesivir for Premature Babies 0:03:14 Profits, Fauci, and federal drug royalties 0:05:27 Veklury patient marketing 0:07:22 Modern medieval medicine 0:09:19 Federal protocols & the hospital chain of command 0:13:28 Whistleblower nurses, firings, and blacklisting 0:17:57 The need for medical advocates 0:22:13 Nurse–doctor hierarchy and lost collaboration

    24 min
  7. FEB 5

    Peter Thiel's 'House Philosopher' Proposes 'Humane Alternative to Genocide' | Patrick Wood

    "The ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma." —Curtis Yarvin, 2008 https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/peter-thiels-house-philosopher-proposed?utm_source=youtube "Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide. That is: the ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma. Perfection cannot be achieved on both these counts, but we can get closer than most might think. The best humane alternative to genocide I can think of is not to liquidate the wards — either metaphorically or literally — but to virtualize them. A virtualized human is in permanent solitary confinement, waxed like a bee larva into a cell which is sealed except for emergencies. This would drive him insane, except that the cell contains an immersive virtual-reality interface which allows him to experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world." —Curtis Yarvin, 2008 YARVIN's VISION Why, I asked Patrick Wood during our interview about his latest book 'The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America'', would anyone care what Curtis Yarvin thinks?  Turns out we should care a lot since Peter Thiel regards Yarvin as his 'House Philosopher.' And Thiel is not the only one among the billionaire technocrats who has taken a liking to the philosophy of Dark Enlightenment. But does Thiel share Yarvin's vision of a 'humane alternative to genocide'? Maybe. It certainly doesn't bode well that NYT podcaster Ross Douthat had to ask him three times during an interview last year if Thiel wanted humanity to continue. H e got only silence as response until, when asked with much urgency, for a third time, Thiel relented with a 'Yes, but…' The 'but' was: let them survive - but not without some desperately needed technical enhancements inside their bodies and brains. CHAPTERS 0:00:04 – Intro, Curtis Yarvin "Humane Alternative to Genocide" Passage   0:01:41 – Who Is Curtis Yarvin? Dark Enlightenment and Silicon Valley Influence   0:08:56 – Peter Thiel's Role: Funding Yarvin, Technocracy, and Monopoly Mindset   0:14:03 – Post‑9/11 Surveillance, Total Information Awareness, and Birth of Palantir   0:17:40 – Democracy vs Freedom? Thiel, Yarvin, and Technocratic Alternatives   0:23:17 – "You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy": Virtual Bubbles and WEF‑Style Dystopia   0:30:15 – Monarch CEO, Sovereign Corporations, and the End of Private Property   0:32:48 – AI as De Facto Ruler: Centralized Data, Palantir, and Weaponized Governance   0:43:53 – Bilderberg Power: Thiel, Karp, AI Agendas, and Choosing Leaders   0:46:13 – Technocracy as an Economic System: Eliminating Politics and Politicians   0:50:43 – Trump, Technocrats in DC, and Yarvin's RAGE Doctrine (Retire All Government Employees)   0:54:22 – Marxism, Bolshevism, Nazi Germany, China: Historical Roots of Technocratic Control   1:02:11 – AI as New Religion: AI God, Thiel's Antichrist Lectures, and Inverted Theology   1:06:40 – Data Centers, Compute, and Building a Global AI Control Infrastructure   1:18:13 – Why Harvest All This Data? From Wearables and Smartphones to Total Control   1:21:32 – Politicians Behind the Curve and AI's Rapid Capture of Government   1:26:29 – Will the AI Bubble Burst? Societal Strain vs Oligarchs' Race to Finish   1:32:44 – COVID‑19, Lack of Accountability, and the Illusion of Rights in a Technocratic Order   RESOURCES Patrick Wood: The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America https://www.amazon.com/Final-Betrayal-Technocracy-Destroyed-America/dp/B0GD2LCBSB/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1 Patrick Wood's Technocracy News: https://www.technocracy.news/ Nick Land: The Dark Enlightenment https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Enlightenment-Imperium-Press/dp/192260268X/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1 Curtis Yarvin/Mencius Moldbug: Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-2-profit-strategies-for-our/

    1h 36m

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