The recent meeting at the Vatican between Governor JB Pritzker and Pope Leo raises troubling questions about the Church’s moral witness. It is difficult for faithful Catholics to understand why the pope would choose to sit down with a politician who has so strongly embraced the culture of death surrounding abortion and euthanasia. Earlier this year, Pritzker expanded state taxpayer complicity in abortion by allocating 23 million dollars to expand abortion services and support funds for those traveling to Illinois for abortion, making his state of Illinois a regional hub for patients traveling from restrictive states. This means taxpayer funds are directly used to subsidize abortion for the state’s residents — and those traveling from other states. Illinois is one of the few states where Medicaid covers all abortions, including elective procedures, not just cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment. Planned Parenthood of Illinois reports that 30 percent of its revenue (about $16 million) comes from Medicaid reimbursements. To help meet that need, Pritzker announced more than $23 million in new funding for abortion access, including a hotline and expanded services to handle the influx of patients traveling from restrictive states. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, Illinois has become a regional hub for abortion, with clinics reporting a 40–45 percent increase in patients, about 25 percent of whom come from out of state. Apparently committed to becoming the most “pro-abortion” governor in the country, American Spectator reported that earlier this year, Pritzker signed into law a mandate that requires public colleges and universities to provide medication abortions on campus to any student who requests them. Illinois House Bill 3709, which passed with a House vote of 7 to 4 on March 19, 2025, and was signed into law on Aug. 22, 2025, by the governor, mandates that if a public college or university’s student health services include a pharmacy, the school must make medication abortion available at a physical location on campus. (RELATED: Illinois Law Mandates On-Campus Abortion Services) And now Governor Pritzker claims to be considering whether to sign Illinois’s pro-euthanasia bill, which was passed on Halloween. This bill was passed surreptitiously by attaching the deadly suicide measure to Senate Bill 1950, a once uncontroversial bill that originally focused on food preparation safety. Lawmakers made a calculated decision to block open debate and advance the legislation while shielding the bill’s true nature from public view. The governor has not said whether he will sign it or not, but in an interview earlier this month, Pritzker told a reporter that “Every time I talk to somebody, it has a little bit of an effect. You’re sort of cumulatively gathering information … I know there are people who feel passionately on both sides. I have said before that I have friends who’ve gone through this with their relatives. It’s painful for the person who’s experiencing the pain in the last six months of their lives, as well as for the entire family.” (RELATED: ‘Death’ by Deception on Halloween in Illinois) Claiming that whatever he decides on the bill, “it will come down to compassion … It’s a hard issue. And I don’t want anybody to think that making up your mind about this is very easy. It’s no … I think there’s a lot to consider, but most of all, it’s about compassion. There’s evidence and information on both sides that leads me to think seriously about what direction to go.” According to the published interview, Pritzker said that he brought the issue up in his meeting last month with Pope Leo XIV, when he met privately with him at the Vatican, but Pritzker didn’t say what the Pope’s response to the issue was: “Obviously, we are members of different religions [and] don’t really disagree so much as just have differences in that way,” Pritzker, who is Jewish, said. “So it was kind of a brief part of a conversation in which we were dismissing all those things and then getting to the things that we really have so much in common. And I so much respect who he is and what he represents.” Most believe that Pritzker will reject anything that Pope Leo might have cautioned on the immorality of assisted suicide. The fact that the governor has already said he will “come down to compassion” is a signal that he believes that assisted suicide is the “compassionate choice.” Such a meeting risks signaling tacit approval of Pritzker’s policies that directly contradict Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life, undermining the credibility of the Church’s stance in the public square. And this is really why it was such a problem for Pope Leo to meet with someone like Governor Pritzker.  Such a meeting risks signaling tacit approval of Pritzker’s policies that directly contradict Catholic teaching on the sanctity of life, undermining the credibility of the Church’s stance in the public square. But it is likely that the reason Pope Leo met with Pritzker in the first place is that they have become allies in what they both view as the problematic deportation policies of the Trump administration. According to the governor’s office, the private audience with the pontiff was arranged by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich. (RELATED: Catholic Cognitive Dissonance) As a progressive democrat, Governor Pritzker has consistently voiced opposition to what he views as inhumane deportation policies, emphasizing their destructive impact on families and communities. Pope Leo likewise condemns such measures, framing them as violations of human dignity and moral responsibility. Their shared stance highlights a powerful alignment between political leadership and moral authority, reinforcing the call for more compassionate approaches to immigration. (RELATED: Is the Pope Woke?) Yet this alliance also raises a troubling paradox: when the pope aligns himself with a leader who resists Catholic teachings on nearly every other issue — especially the life issues, it risks diluting the Church’s moral coherence. Such selective partnership can confuse the faithful, suggesting that agreement on a single humanitarian cause outweighs deep divisions on fundamental doctrine and may weaken the credibility of Catholic witness in the public sphere. In the end, the Vatican meeting between Pope Leo and Governor Pritzker illustrates the peril of selective alliances. While agreement on immigration may appear noble, it risks obscuring the governor’s radical opposition to Catholic teaching on life itself. By lending moral credibility to a politician so deeply invested in the culture of death, the Church jeopardizes its witness, leaving the faithful to question whether its defense of human dignity is consistent or compromised. READ MORE from Anne Hendershott: Bowdoin College: Finishing School for a Socialist ‘Death’ by Deception on Halloween in Illinois Electing the Image: Mamdani and the Mimetic Turn in Democracy

Comfortingly predictable plots, trite yet charming storylines, guaranteed happy endings, and unrealistically glamorous decorations, wardrobes, homes, villages, and actors made Hallmark Christmas movies the white noise of my holiday season for over a decade. In fact, the lack of intellectual stimulation required to consume this entertainment is the allure itself. Like most billion-dollar organizations, Hallmark has been swept up by the waves of progressivism and social justice virtue signaling. Despite a steady introduction of gay supporting characters, I admired the Hallmark Channel’s overall commitment to wholesome productions that never included divorce, cohabitation, or an explicit redefinition of marriage. Progressivism is never satisfied until it has won the full soul. That was true until Hallmark Christmas 2025. The 2025 Hallmark Christmas movie season proves to be the nail in the coffin of the slippery slope of yet another corporate sell-out to malignant wokeism. It is no surprise that the progressive agenda was not sated by a few gay characters. Progressivism is never satisfied until it has won the full soul. This year, the perverse took center stage. (RELATED: Where’s the ‘Christian’ in Hallmark Christmas Movies?) A mother in my small group lamented her experience watching a 2025 debut, A Keller Christmas Vacation, starring Eden Sher from The Middle. She was elated to see “Sue Heck” in a Hallmark movie and invited her elementary-aged sons to enjoy what would surely be a family-friendly, feel-good show. The feel-good was abruptly shattered when two male leads proposed and kissed in what anyone with toddler-level deductive reasoning skills could conclude was their shared home together. Perhaps Hallmark took criticism about its lack of originality too far. A storyline redefining marriage was certainly new for the channel! The cohabitation theme began earlier than A Keller Christmas Vacation with Christmas Above the Clouds, including not-so-subtle clues of extramarital living arrangements. My disgust with this season of Hallmark is not limited to its own productions. I have watched in horror a variety of tasteless commercials aired on the Hallmark Channel whose punchlines are thinly veiled and frankly gross innuendos. Target Commercial #7 (2025) and Phillips Sonicare Commercial (2025) are the epitome of lowest common denominator material. It makes anyone consider The Benedict Option when even 30-second commercials on a supposed family channel are hypersexualized. My disdain culminated last Saturday night. After a laborious day slaving over five batches of Christmas cookies, I was thrilled to sprawl supine on my couch, anticipating a mindless Hallmark debut. She’s Making a List was Hallmark’s 2025 crown jewel, with top stars Lacey Chabert and Andrew Walker. The premise is charming. Lacey Chabert, as “Isabel Haynes,” works as an inspector for Santa’s naughty or nice list. All is well until the resolution of the movie is Isabel’s Rousseauian revelation that all children are nice. No children are naughty. The criteria of naughty or nice is a social construct. The scorecard of right or wrong is randomly determined by adults. From now on, no children get coal. This heavily humanistic theme killed my evening plan of mindless consumption. The message conveyed through what could have been a refreshing, innocent plot was one that championed Rousseau’s humanism, gentle parenting, participation trophies, and moral relativism. Social conservatives no longer have the luxury of passively consuming secular entertainment, for the media is far from thoughtless in its relentless, strategic, and patient desensitization of erosive ideology. It is no surprise that the cultural decline of Hallmark began when Wharton MBA graduate, CNN and NPR veteran, and Peabody Board of Jurors member, Wonya Lucas, took the helm as CEO of Hallmark Media in 2020. Though Lucas left Hallmark in 2023, she successfully advanced the progressive ideals of her alma mater and the radical Peabody organization. John Matts filled Lucas’s open role in June 2025 and has followed well in her footsteps. Despite Hallmark’s cultural nosedive, I am consoled by the free market. Regardless of what the billion-dollar corporations push, the average American family would still rather watch a Christmas movie without explaining same-sex attraction to a six-year-old. Hallmark’s viewership has declined in direct correlation with its morality. 2024 marked nearly a quarter reduction in viewership, and 2025 is on track for another down year. (RELATED: New Film Might Just Be the Next Christmas Classic) Instead, many viewers are flocking to Great American Family (GAF), where they can enjoy a movie without rejecting moral absolutism. Great American Family is led by Bill Abbott, Wonya Lucas’s Hallmark predecessor. GAF claimed a handful of Hallmark stars whose values became incongruous with Hallmark’s, including Candace Cameron Bure, who serves as GAF’s chief creative officer. GAF was 2023’s fastest-growing linear cable television network and made the top 25 cable networks in the fourth quarter of 2024. Though it pains me to divorce Hallmark from my Christmas traditions, I will vote with my viewership and switch to Great American Family. In 2025, not even a Christmas movie can be consumed without discernment. The progressives don’t take a holiday vacation from their fight, and neither can we. Danielle Henry is a freelance writer living in Pittsburgh who enjoys cooking for friends and family, being active outdoors, and serving in her church community. Danielle is interested in policy relating to economics and religion and is committed to reclaiming the American Dream for younger generations.

Two gymnasts are suing USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Center for SafeSport, their former training facility, and the facility’s owners after their former coach was indicted on multiple counts of child pornography. The gymnasts allege that USA Gymnastics and the Center received complaints about Sean Gardner’s sexualized behavior towards minor athletes as early as 2017. Because these governing bodies did not fulfill their duty of care — including their duties as mandatory reporters — Gardner was able to get another job in another state, where he sexually abused the plaintiffs and other athletes for several years. The federal charges against Gardner stem from images he recorded in 2017 and 2018 while coaching in Mississippi. After leaving that gym, he started working in Des Moines in September 2018. Almost immediately, according to the lawsuits, he began coaching, grooming, and abusing the plaintiffs. Just as rapidly, gymnasts and parents started informing the gym’s owners of Gardner’s inappropriate behavior. Because the owners did not “investigate, [report] the abuse to the law enforcement authorities, remove Gardner as a coach, or take any other action,” Gardner continued to abuse the plaintiffs (and other gymnasts) until they left the gym in 2020 and 2021. The U.S. Center for SafeSport received complaints about Gardner from the gym in Mississippi in December 2017 and from minor athletes and the parents of minor athletes at the gym in Des Moines in September 2020, March 2022, and August 2022. The gym fired Gardner in July 2022 after the Center issued a “temporary suspension,” which immediately barred him from all sporting activities. Despite remaining in a temporary status for three years until his arrest this summer, the Center’s sanction removed him from sport. The U.S. Center for SafeSport is a non-profit that is the national sport safeguarding organization under the Ted Stevens Act of 2018. Over 11 million Americans — from youth athletes to professional coaches — fall under its jurisdiction through their membership or employment by a sport’s governing body. The crux of the suits is that the Center could have sanctioned Gardner at any point in the preceding four and a half years. The Center can impose a temporary suspension — which, for all practical purposes, is indistinguishable from a permanent ban while it is in place — on the basis of an allegation alone: no investigation or adjudication was necessary. The suits are the latest evidence that the national sport safeguarding apparatus is not fit for its federally designated purpose: “prevent the abuse, including emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, of amateur athletes participating in amateur athletic activities through national governing bodies.” However, the suits also bring to light several thornier issues. First, they illustrate how the perception of a duty of care — one that Congress created in the aftermath of the Larry Nassar scandal — can generate a false sense of security. (RELATED: Washington’s Reverse Midas Touch) The U.S. Center for SafeSport has “exclusive jurisdiction” over accusations of sexual misconduct in sport. When it chooses to do so, the Center can wield extraordinary power for a nominally private entity. The Center can ban someone from sport, which, even on a temporary basis, can end their career as an athlete, coach, or other role in the industry. Such bans are public. The Ted Stevens Act requires the Center to “publish and maintain a publicly accessible internet website that contains a comprehensive list of adults who are barred by the Center.” This immediately and permanently associates banned sports people with Larry Nassar himself, one of the most notorious pedophiles in American history. That is a blow to one’s reputation that extends the damage beyond the sports industry. Yet even if the Center bans and blacklists someone erroneously, Congress granted them immunity from defamation suits. (RELATED: Defending Reputation From Defamation-by-Blacklist) Knowing that Congress gave the Center both great power and great responsibility, many people think that it has equally great effectiveness. Knowing that Congress gave the Center both great power and great responsibility, many people think that it has equally great effectiveness. They therefore trust that the Center will act promptly to investigate and adjudicate a complaint in order to protect youth athletes. However, both advocates and critics of the Center agree, with plenty of evidence to support them, that it does not. Second, these suits show the danger of outsourcing personal responsibility. Time and again, the plaintiffs fault USA Gymnastics, the Center, the gym, and the gym owners for not informing law enforcement of the complaints against Gardner. They inadvertently paint a picture of concerned individuals saying, “Well, I did all I could. I told a responsible party and a mandatory reporter.” It should go without saying that the Center’s “exclusive jurisdiction” only refers to the sporting context. Indeed, Gardner’s arrest proves that criminal law applies to the sports industry; and, obviously, so does civil law. (RELATED: The Limits of Delegation to the Private Sector) Likewise, coaches, volunteers, and employees of youth sports organizations are all mandatory reporters. That is a unique responsibility that we carry. But it is not a unique power. Neither the Center’s “exclusive jurisdiction” nor someone’s status as a mandatory reporter precludes anyone from bypassing the safeguarding system and picking up the phone to call the police, or going online to file a suspicious activity report with local, state, or federal law enforcement. For all of the imprecations over the last 25 years of “If you see something, say something,” Americans’ ready use of tip-and-snitch lines during COVID, and the perilous ease of calling someone out on social media, these suits suggest a disturbing level of passivity around one of the few behaviors that is universally condemned. Yet no one seems to have reached the necessary threshold of concern, impatience, or anger to go directly to law enforcement. If the police were informed and failed to act, then that is a separate and serious scandal. But that brings us to the third point: the entire Sean Gardner situation shows that there is no substitute for the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system is far from perfect — some of the long lags in the Gardner case raise their own questions. But when you need to get a monster off the streets — and if Gardner did the things he is accused of, he is a monster — you need police with guns, courts with judges and juries, and prisons with walls. Not a 501(c)3 in Denver. Nearly five years passed between the Center and USA Gymnastics’ first learning that Gardner might be a sexual abuser and the Center informing law enforcement. In that time, there were at least three separate complaints to the Center about Gardner. The complaint of March 2022 seems to have spurred something, as the Center informed the West Des Moines Police Department of the situation in May. The Center took its own action, the “temporary suspension,” two months later, in July. According to an FBI affidavit, another two years went by before the police interviewed a potential victim, and yet another year had passed before West Des Moines police searched Gardner’s property in May 2025. But things took off from there, leading to his arrest in August. Those lags will be frustrating, infuriating, or agonizing, depending on your perspective. If you’re idealistic, you might aver that such delays are sometimes the cost of due process and the protections we provide the accused. But the U.S. Center for SafeSport is encumbered by no such due process strictures, yet it still took them nearly twice as long to do anything as the police. Only when the proper law enforcement bodies were brought into the case did the wheels start turning to truly protect children from Sean Gardner and try him for these crimes. Even if it worked perfectly, a sport safeguarding system could do neither. The actual safeguarding system we have, exclusively led by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, can barely go through the motions. And even though the criminal justice system does not in any way work perfectly, it is the best we have. Delayed justice for Sean Gardner and his victims is evidence of all of that. READ MORE from George M.J. Perry: Maintain the Separation Between Sport and State British Sports Scoop the NCAA in Protecting Female Athletes The Limits of Delegation to the Private Sector

For years, Qatar has positioned itself as a neutral mediator and champion of human rights in the Middle East. Its state-funded media apparatus, Al Jazeera, broadcasts a steady stream of accusations against Israel while the emirate’s diplomats shuttle between Western capitals preaching moderation. Yet a sober comparison reveals an uncomfortable truth: every accusation Qatar levels at Israel describes Qatar itself with far greater accuracy. It is a matter of tu quoque, but in spades. The Myth of Jewish Control Versus Qatari Reality Anti-Israel activists frequently invoke the old canard that Jews control governments, wealth, and key institutions. Meanwhile, Qatar has quietly assembled one of history’s most concentrated portfolios of foreign influence and ownership. Qatar operates as an absolute monarchy where political dissent is crushed, where wealth is hoarded, but not earned, by one family. Consider London. Qatar owns more real estate in the British capital than the British royal family. The emirate holds major stakes in Heathrow Airport (20 percent), The Shard (95 percent ownership, Western Europe’s tallest building), the entire Harrods department store, Canary Wharf properties, and the Olympic Village. Its portfolio contains percentages of multiple Premier League football clubs, including Paris Saint-Germain outright. Qatar Holding, the investment arm of the state’s sovereign wealth fund, controls assets worth over $450 billion globally. In the United States, Qatar has inserted itself into elite universities through donations that shape research agendas, hiring decisions, and campus politics. Between 2001 and 2021, Qatar gave American universities at least $4.7 billion, with much of it undisclosed until recently. Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Northwestern, Texas A&M, and Cornell all operate Qatar-funded campuses in Doha, where academic freedom takes a back seat to the host country’s sensitivities. This represents real, concentrated influence backed by state money and coordinated strategy. Nothing in the Jewish or Israeli world approaches this level of systematic foreign ownership and control. Political Influence: Who Really Buys Power? Critics routinely claim that Israel manipulates American foreign policy through lobbying and campaign donations. The facts tell a different story. Qatar operates one of the most expensive foreign lobbying operations in Washington. Since 2017, Qatar has spent approximately $250 million on lobbying and public relations in the United States. The emirate retains multiple firms simultaneously, including powerhouses like Brownstein Hyatt and Sonoran Policy Group. It pays former senior officials, cultivates think tanks, and funds academic centers that reliably produce Qatar-friendly analyses. The results are visible. Qatar has systematically purchased favorable media coverage and cultivated influential voices. In 2019 and 2020, a Qatari royal invested approximately $50 million in Newsmax, the pro-Trump conservative outlet. Following the investment, Newsmax employees reported being explicitly told by management to “soften” coverage of Qatar and avoid criticizing the emirate’s human rights record. “We were told very clearly from the top down, no touching this,” one staffer revealed. More recently, Foreign Agents Registration Act documents revealed that Qatar paid the firm Lumen8 Advisors $180,000 per month to facilitate a March 2025 interview between Tucker Carlson and Qatar’s prime minister. While Carlson has denied receiving direct payment from Qatar, the arrangement exemplifies how the emirate uses intermediaries to secure favorable platform access and messaging. Conservative figures, from Carlson to various social media influencers, have emerged as defenders of Qatar, presenting the emirate as either a victim of unfair criticism or a benevolent actor misunderstood by the West. Compare this to AIPAC, whose entire annual budget hovers around $100 million and whose donors are American citizens making individual choices. Qatar’s influence operation is state-directed, massively funded, and designed to purchase outcomes rather than advocate for shared values. Bankrolling Terror While Playing Peacemaker Perhaps no charge against Israel rings more hollow than accusations of supporting extremism, especially when those accusations come from Qatar. Qatar directly finances Hamas. This is not speculation or propaganda but a documented fact acknowledged by U.S. officials. Since 2012, Qatar has funneled an estimated $1.8 billion to Gaza, much of it directly supporting Hamas’s governing apparatus, salaries, and infrastructure projects. The emirate hosts Hamas’s political leadership in luxury in Doha, providing them with diplomatic protection and a platform for international engagement. Qatar is the only country on earth that bankrolls a designated terrorist organization responsible for the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 Israelis while simultaneously maintaining full diplomatic relations with the United States and housing the largest American military base in the Middle East. This arrangement would be called “playing both sides” if we were being generous. A more accurate description would recognize it as state sponsorship of terrorism with a diplomatic veneer. When Qatar positions itself as a “mediator” between Israel and Hamas, it is mediating between a democratic state and a terrorist organization it funds. This is like an arsonist volunteering to mediate between firefighters and the building he set ablaze. The Al Jazeera Information Weapon Israel stands accused of spreading propaganda and hiding truth. Yet no Israeli media outlet, not even those with clear political orientations, operates with the discipline, reach, or state direction of Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera functions as an arm of the Qatari state. It does not operate independently. Its editorial line follows the interests of the ruling Al Thani family with precision. During the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera championed uprisings in Libya, Syria, and Egypt while maintaining radio silence about any dissent in Qatar itself or in allied Gulf monarchies. The network shapes narratives across the Arab world, Europe, and increasingly in the United States through AJ+, its social media subsidiary designed for Western audiences. Its reach and editorial discipline exceed every Israeli media outlet combined. When Al Jazeera broadcasts accusations against Israel, it does so as an instrument of state policy, not as independent journalism. There are, of course, many Israeli periodicals that often support the government of that country, but sometimes not. Often, their coverage is mixed. However, there are also dozens, if not scores of them, that are bitter critics of Benjamin Netanyahu in particular and of the Likud Party in general. When can this be truly said of Al Jazeera and Qatar? Systematic Violation of Individual Rights Critics claim Israel mistreats vulnerable populations. The comparison with Qatar’s treatment of migrant workers reveals who actually engages in systematic rights violations. Qatar built its glittering modern skyline through systematic breach of contract and property rights. A 2021 investigation by The Guardian found that at least 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka died in Qatar during the decade of infrastructure projects leading to the 2022 World Cup. The actual number is likely far higher, as many deaths were attributed to “natural causes” without proper investigation. The Qatari system operates through state-sanctioned coercion. Workers had their passports confiscated upon arrival, a direct violation of property rights that eliminated their freedom of movement and ability to leave. They entered into employment contracts that were then systematically breached by employers who delayed or withheld agreed-upon wages. They were denied access to independent legal recourse or arbitration when contracts were violated. When workers died, their families received minimal restitution for the breach of contract that led to the unsafe working conditions. This represents systematic violation of individual liberty, property rights, and contract enforcement at a scale Israel has never approached. Yet Qatar faced minimal consequences, hosting the World Cup on schedule while lecturing others about human rights. The Real Apartheid: Qatar’s Tiered Citizenship System Israel faces relentless accusations of apartheid despite its Arab citizens voting, serving in parliament, taking positions as doctors, lawyers, professors, engineers, and holding positions on the Supreme Court. They even have their own political parties, with representation in the Knesset. Qatar, meanwhile, operates an actual apartheid system that would make the architects of South Africa’s racial hierarchy blush. Approximately 90 percent of Qatar’s population consists of non-citizens with no political rights whatsoever. Children born in Qatar do not acquire citizenship by birth. Even after 25 years of continuous residence, foreigners almost never receive citizenship, with applications capped at just 50 per year for a population of nearly three million. But the discrimination extends beyond non-citizens. Qatar’s 2005 nationality law creates a formal two-tier citizenship system dividing Qataris into “native” citizens (those whose families settled before 1930) and “naturalized” citizens. This distinction perpetuates through generations, with children of naturalized citizens inheriting their parents’ second-class status regardless of where they were born. The restrictions on “naturalized” Qataris are extensive and codified. They cannot vote or run for office in Shura Council elections. They cannot work in many government positions for five years after naturalization. They cannot apply for housing loans until 15 years after naturalization. Unlike “native” Qataris, they cannot receive government housing grants or funds to purchase land. Their citizenship can be revoked more easily than that of “native” citizens. Non-citizens face even harsher restrictions. They cannot own property except in designated zones. They cannot open businesses without Qatari partners. They have no access to subsidized healthcare, education, or government benefits, for which they pay through taxation. They cannot vote or participate in politics. The government caps citizenship applications at 50 annually while maintaining a population where fewer than 10 percent hold citizenship. Women face additional discrimination under Qatar’s nationality laws. Unlike men, Qatari women cannot transmit citizenship to their foreign husbands or children. A Qatari woman married to a non-Qatari man can only apply for residency for her family, not citizenship, creating families where mothers are citizens but their children are not. Compare this to Israel, where Arab citizens constitute 21 percent of the population, vote in every election, serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, teach at universities, and practice medicine in hospitals. Israeli Arabs own property, operate businesses, and enjoy full legal equality. No such comparison is possible in Qatar, where the overwhelming majority of residents have no rights, and even citizens are divided into legal castes. Yes, it cannot be denied that Israel, too, has a system with two different levels of rights. Jews from abroad can become citizens, but this does not apply to non-Jews from elsewhere. Israel is, after all, a Jewish state. However, Arabs in Israel are treated far more decently than they would be if they were to emigrate to Israeli neighboring countries. This is demonstrated by the almost total lack of emigration on the part of these peoples. As for homosexuals, there are gay parades in Israel, but not anywhere else in the Middle East. Queers for Palestine, yes, actually, there is such an organization, is rather an anomaly, since if these folk were to ever visit Qatar, they would be summarily put to death. Their very existence dramatically illustrates the widespread lack of knowledge about this so-called civilized nation. When Qatar or its defenders accuse Israel of apartheid, they are projecting their own systematic discrimination onto a democratic state with far greater equality. The Colonial Project Qatar Won’t Acknowledge Israel is routinely condemned as a colonial project imposed by outside powers, an accusation that ignores 3,000 years of continuous Jewish presence in the land and the democratic institutions Israelis built. Qatar itself is a British creation. The Al Thani family was placed in control by British colonial administrators who drew lines in the sand and designated rulers. Unlike Israel, Qatar has no functioning democracy. Citizens cannot vote to change their government. Political parties are banned. The immense wealth generated by natural gas belongs to one family, which distributes it according to dynastic priorities rather than democratic accountability. The state’s current borders, its ruling family’s authority, and its very existence as a separate entity rather than part of Saudi Arabia or another neighbor, all flow from British imperial decisions. Yet Qatar faces no criticism for its colonial origins or its authoritarian structure, while Israel fought free from the British mandate in order to build a parliamentary democracy with competitive elections and an independent judiciary, is condemned as illegitimate. The Diplomacy of Duplicity Israel is accused of moral hypocrisy, of claiming high standards while acting otherwise. But Qatar’s diplomatic strategy makes Israeli conduct look transparent by comparison. Qatar sells liquefied natural gas to anyone with money. It maintains close relations with Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. It funds groups designated as terrorist organizations by the United States, the European Union, and numerous other countries. It plays all sides simultaneously while presenting itself as neutral. The emirate hosts both the largest American military base in the region and the leadership of Hamas. It brokers deals between the Taliban and Western governments while funding Islamist movements across the Middle East and North Africa. It positions itself as a victim of a blockade by neighboring Arab states while those same states cite Qatar’s support for extremism as justification. Qatar has elevated duplicity to the level of state strategy. The Israeli Response: Precision Versus Capitulation Qatar’s role as Hamas’s patron came into sharp focus in September 2025, when Israel assassinated five Hamas leaders in Doha. The operation killed Khalil al-Hayya’s son and other negotiators, along with a Qatari security officer. Media coverage was revealing. The New York Times characterized the strike as “brazen,” as if Israel’s surgical targeting of terrorist leaders represented greater aggression than Qatar’s years of hosting them. The criticism revealed a telling double standard. Israel stands accused of using excessive force in Gaza, with critics pointing to high civilian casualties among the roughly 70,000 Gazan deaths in the conflict. Yet when Israel employs the precision its critics claim to demand, eliminating specific Hamas leadership with minimal collateral damage, the operation is condemned as a violation of Qatari sovereignty. The message appears clear: Israel may defend itself neither wholesale nor retail, neither with conventional military operations nor with targeted strikes. Israel is entitled to achieve a decisive victory over organizations committed to its destruction. The Allied powers in World War II did not forego targeting Nazi leaders because some were engaged in diplomatic discussions. They pursued total victory and unconditional surrender. The notion that Israel alone must negotiate with terrorists who refuse to lay down their arms, who reject surrender, and who continue attacks while claiming to negotiate, represents a standard applied to no other nation facing existential threats. Qatar’s role in hosting these leaders was not neutral mediation but active participation in Hamas’s war effort. A truly neutral broker does not provide years of comfortable residence, diplomatic protection, and billions in financial support to one side. Qatar was not mediating between equals but enabling Hamas’s continued operations while shielding its leadership from consequences. The analogy is straightforward: if a supposedly neutral country hosted Nazi leaders during World War II, providing them sanctuary, funding, and diplomatic cover, Allied strikes against those leaders would have been justified acts of war, not violations of neutrality. Qatar’s relationship with Hamas operates on the same principle. The emirate cannot claim neutral status while serving as Hamas’s patron, banker, and safe haven. The Projection Problem The gap between Qatar’s carefully managed image and its actual conduct is wider than anything the emirate tries to project onto Israel. When Qatar condemns Israel for behavior that Qatar itself practices on a larger scale, it engages not in moral criticism but in psychological projection. Israel, for all its flaws and policy disputes, operates as a democracy where citizens can vote leaders out of office, where courts check executive power, where a free press criticizes government daily, and where minority communities participate in political life. Qatar operates as an absolute monarchy where political dissent is crushed, where wealth is hoarded, but not earned, by one family, where foreign workers have no rights, and where state interests dictate all public discourse. The next time Qatar or its media arms level accusations at Israel, observers should ask a simple question: Which country does this description actually fit? The answer, more often than not, will be the accuser rather than the accused. READ MORE: When Seeing Race is Helpful It’s Not Fair! Disproportionate Deaths in the Middle East Who Is to Blame for Civilian Deaths in Gaza?

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is a better boss the second time around. You can see it in his staffing. Trump is putting the right people in top jobs. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is flexing his foreign policy chops. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is selling Trump’s policies to Wall Street and Main Street. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy isn’t trying to paper over problems on American roads and in the skies. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is taking on the education bureaucracy. (RELATED: America, Please Put Some Pants On) The first year of Trump’s first term was chaotic: The turnover of his “A-Team” hit 35 percent, according to an analysis by Brookings Institution visiting fellow Kathryn Dunn Tenpas. Former President Barack Obama’s first year turnover was 9 percent; according to Tenpas, the closest modern predecessor to Trump was Ronald Reagan, with 17 percent turnover in his first year. Given that Trump had never served in public office until he was elected president, hiccups were predictable. Given that Trump had never served in public office until he was elected president, hiccups were predictable. In that first year, Trump spit out his first chief of staff (Reince Priebus), press secretary (Sean Spicer), and national security adviser (Michael Flynn). Tenpas has a term for such departures: RUP, for “resigned under pressure.” As you look at Trump’s picks this go-round, you see how his four years in the wilderness paid off, and with Susie Wiles serving as chief of staff, there’s a stability you didn’t see in 2017. There has been “no publicly announced firing” among senior staff in the Executive Office of the President, Tenpas told me. Trump’s first second-term national security adviser (Michael Waltz) was caught adding a journalist to a Signal chat group that discussed plans for a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen. But rather than outright firing Waltz, Trump moved the former Army Special Forces officer to the United Nations, where he serves as U.S. ambassador. Waltz’s replacement? Rubio, who is acting national security adviser and the archivist of the United States. Trump is “double and triple hatting people,” is how Tenpas put it. “When one of them leaves, he likes to hire from within.” Also, Tenpas wrote, “The share of women and non-whites holding the most senior government positions is the lowest of the past four administrations.” While I see the lesser turnover as a sign that Trump has seasoned, Tenpas credits the administration’s “far more intense focus on loyalty.” When Trump first became president, he had never served in office, so he didn’t have a stable of long-term operatives. At times, it seemed Trump picked some top staff and Cabinet members for their news (and entertainment) value. Remember Secretary of State Rex Tillerson? Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had recommended the former CEO of ExxonMobil. A newbie president and a newbie secretary of state. What could go wrong? In March 2018, Trump announced he was firing Tillerson on Twitter. “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job!” Trump posted. “Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service!” The most theatrical firing of 2017 came when then-FBI Director James Comey learned he was unemployed during a recruitment event in Los Angeles. Awkward. Nearly a year into Trump’s second term, America has not witnessed a similar public shaming/firing. And some Trump picks — most notably Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth — don’t exactly have the heavyweight personas you would expect for their positions. Trump should have put them on Mediterranean or Baltic Avenue, but somehow they landed on Park Avenue and Boardwalk. READ MORE from Debra J. Saunders: Keep On Truckin’ — If You Are Rightly Licensed Sleepy Donald Trump? Umm, No, He’s Not Joe Biden. Yes, the New York Times Really Ran a Story About Social Services Fraud by Immigrants Follow @debrajsaunders on X. To find out more about Debra Saunders and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS

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As we approach the deepest and darkest day of winter, I know many of you suffer from things like depression, lack of energy and everything else that comes along with cold, dark winter in middle to northern America. Which is why I thought it was so important to show you this…. A decade-old peer-reviewed paper is gaining renewed attention after a viral video by Dr. John Campbell highlighted what researchers called a “schoolboy error” in how U.S. and Canadian health authorities set the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamin D. The 2014 analysis, published in the journal Nutrients, re-examined data used by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2011 to establish the current RDA of 600 IU per day for adults. According to the authors—led by researchers from the University of Alberta, Creighton University, and GrassrootsHealth—the IOM wrongly applied population averages instead of individual prediction intervals when calculating the dose needed to ensure nearly everyone reaches a protective blood level of at least 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L). Correcting the statistical method shows that approximately 8,895 IU per day—almost 15 times the current RDA—is required for 97.5% of healthy adults to achieve that threshold. “Essentially, they used the average of the group to predict what an individual needs,” the paper states. “That’s a fundamental mistake in statistics.” The claims have resurfaced amid persistent high rates of vitamin D deficiency in North America (around 40–50% of the population) and growing evidence that levels of 30–40 ng/mL or higher are linked to lower risks of respiratory infections, certain cancers, autoimmune diseases, and all-cause mortality. Critics of the current guidelines argue the 600 IU recommendation was designed only to prevent outright bone disease (rickets and osteomalacia), not to optimize broader health outcomes. Multiple meta-analyses cited in the 2014 paper and subsequent research indicate no increased risk of toxicity up to blood levels of 100–120 ng/mL when vitamin D is taken orally. Health authorities have not revised the 2011 RDA, and the IOM’s successor, the National Academy of Medicine, has not issued new guidance on vitamin D since then. As the paper gains traction online, experts are calling for an urgent re-evaluation of official recommendations to reflect individual variability and modern evidence on optimal vitamin D status. A MAJOR statistical error has kept vitamin D recommendations DANGEROUSLY low for decades. 8,895 IU/day is needed for 97.5% of people to reach ≥50 nmol/L — NOT a mere 600 IU/day. The error: The Institute of Medicine “misread” its own analysis — using values meant for… https://t.co/D3uiQJRjje pic.twitter.com/gZkMy1Pxky — Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) December 9, 2025 I’ve been covering Vitamin D for years and I have never had anyone tell me any negative effects of increasing their Vitamin D intake (within safe limits). Chances are you are woefully deficient! Vitamin D — They’ve Been Lying To You All Along (Here’s The Truth) I'm writing this after I just got back from my swimming outdoors in the beautiful sun, soaking in some beautiful, life-giving VITAMIN D and I feel absolutely fantastic! Fresh air, sun, Vitamin D....it's like I just plugged my body into a giant USB charger and I've powered back up to 100%. Would you be surprised to learn they've lied to you about the sun and sunscreen?  Would that shock anyone? I mean COMPLETELY lied to you! Folks, everything in moderation, but it's so important that your body take in sunlight and process it into Vitamin D! Stop slathering on sun screen all over your body just because you're going to be outside for 30 minutes. It's a double-whammy to your body.... You're taking in TONS of toxic chemicals from that sunscreen, meanwhile you're blocking out the one thing your body actually needs: SUN! Allow me to explain... They lie to us about everything. I sure hope you learned that lesson after everything we've been through with President Trump since 2015? But it's not just politics. They lie about finances (I keep warning that Banks and the USD will soon crash)... They lie about the Earth and Space and Moon Landings... And they also lie about your HEALTH. We learned that in 2020, didn't we? But it's so much worse than you even realized. We reported very early on in the "planned-demic" that everyone should get as much sun exposure as they can and supplement with additional Vitamin D supplements. But what did the Legacy Media tell you to do? Stay inside! And if you do leave your house, cover up your face so almost no skin is available to soak in any Vitamin D! They told you the EXACT OPPOSITE of what would have made a huge difference. God programmed our bodies and set up this world so that it's fairly idiot-proof. He made our skin a giant sun receptor and then gave our bodies the ability to soak in the sun and process that sunlight into Vitamin D and other vitamins and minerals that will naturally heal us and keep us healthy. How genius! So we told you to simply follow God's blueprint from early on in the pandemic....and now we're being vindicated! Here is Dr. Pierre Kory talking to Tucker Carlson and blowing things wide open (sounds EXACTLY like all the articles we were publishing 4 years ago).  Take a look: Dr. Pierre Kory: Big Pharma is ‘TERRIFIED’ of Vitamin D Why? Because “It threatens the DISEASE MODEL.” A new meta-analysis out of Italy, published in the journal, Nutrients, has unearthed some shocking data about Vitamin D. Looking at data from 16 different studies and 1.26… pic.twitter.com/yhZaM2qNtX — Vigilant Fox ? (@VigilantFox) March 13, 2024 Dr. Pierre Kory: Big Pharma is ‘TERRIFIED’ of Vitamin D Why? Because “It threatens the DISEASE MODEL.” A new meta-analysis out of Italy, published in the journal, Nutrients, has unearthed some shocking data about Vitamin D. Looking at data from 16 different studies and 1.26 million individuals, the meta-analysis revealed: • Vitamin D showed about a 60% effectiveness against the incidence of COVID-19 in randomized control trials. • Vitamin D showed about 40-50% effectiveness in reducing the incidence of COVID-19 in observational studies. • For preventing severe COVID-19 cases requiring ICU care, vitamin D supplementation was about 70% effective. So, we didn’t need to lock ourselves inside for years, be afraid, and vilify our neighbors for not wearing a mask. All we needed to do was to go outside, get sunshine, and increase our vitamin D levels, and everything would have been fine. A personal favorite: SEE IT HERE More confirmation here: THREAD: Vitamin D is arguably the most essential vitamin for your health. However, many aren't aware that pairing it with Magnesium, Zinc, and Vitamin K2 is extremely important. In this thread, we will explain why. pic.twitter.com/kpdVtHQKRL — sunfluencer (@sunfluencer) March 11, 2024 And an easy way to tell if you are deficient in Vitamin D: This is how you know you are deficient in Vitamin D Must Watch pic.twitter.com/UITBhsRM2N — Fred’s Farm | Herbs (@FredsFarm247) March 13, 2024 When you start to see through the lies, you start to spot the plot against you EVERYWHERE... Think sunscreen next. Why do they constantly tell you the sun is bad? Why are they constantly trying to block out the sun? Whether it's spraying Chemtrails (add your photos to my site here as we build out the largest online database of criminal chemtrail spraying: https://ChemtrailsExposed.com/) to block out the sun from even reaching you... Or brainwashing you that you must put creams on your skin to block out the sun from hitting you.... ...it's a constant effort to separate you from the sun. Now ask yourself why? And go back to what I said up above -- how did God set things up? If you ask me, he seems to be pretty keen on our skin absorbing the sun and converting it into things that keep us healthy and full of life. Now imagine if it was a double-whammy and not only were they blocking out the sun and the benefits it gives you, but now imagine the sunscreen chemicals you apply directly to your skin cause cancer? That's what this woman says and I believe her: https://twitter.com/QAwakeningQ/status/1767365477188116784 [CENSORED] Backup here if needed: Sunscreen Chemicals are causing the Skin Cancer. Vitamin D = Sun is healthy for the human body. Simply gotta manage direct-sun exposure to keep from burning your skin silly. @DailyNoahNews pic.twitter.com/e6JWeJciuT — DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) March 15, 2024 From Joe Rogan to Russell Brand, the world is waking up to the truth: Joe Rogan: How Many Lives Could Have Been Saved if the Authorities Told the Truth About Vitamin D? Full Video: https://t.co/aKJ1Myi4MS pic.twitter.com/5KoPWInC0z — neil by mouth (@nbreavington) March 5, 2023 All you have to do is take whatever the MSM is pushing on you (the sun is BAD -- cover up and apply 150 SPF!) and do the opposite: We don't "need" SPF or less time in the . We need vitamin D! pic.twitter.com/MDfvq5DjhC — Separated from Goats (@leftchurchcult) March 12, 2023 Turns out we were right all along. Of course, we knew that. You knew that. But it's still great to get that vindication. And fascinating to see the REAL research and the REAL science that is now finally allowed to be posted on Twitter. Truth is breaking free! Check this out... The protective role of Vitamin D against serious cases of Covid: Anyone who dared to suggest this in 2020 & 2021 were ridiculed or deplatformed. The science that we were told to follow wasn’t given any room for scrutiny or debate. Total suppression.pic.twitter.com/OFF7Po1wH5 — James Melville (@JamesMelville) February 2, 2023 Surprise, surprise: ????????, ????????! "Vitamin D deficiency was found in 82.2% of COVID-19 cases and 47.2% of population-based controls (phttps://t.co/fm5GMfMGth)0> And frankly speaking, I doubt that anybody would get ill at all with 25(OH)D levels above 50 ng/mL. pic.twitter.com/DyaK2w01eC — Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) January 23, 2023 Oh, and guess what food is naturally high in Vitamin D? You guessed it: Eggs! https://twitter.com/11Pythagorean/status/1621168333344370689 What they did to everyone was criminal! If government/main stream media really cared about your health. Don’t you think they would’ve pushed vitamin D3,C and ZINC As hard as the . I am older, and I never knew how important vitamin D was to immune system. 80% of severe Covid /Death had major vitamin D deficiency. pic.twitter.com/naLMX7tqyL — mike carden (@mike4dodge) February 2, 2023 How perfect is this? COVID #Truth pic.twitter.com/qdBn22fhsI — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) February 3, 2023 TWO GREAT OPTIONS: Vitamin D. A great choice: And a backup Vitamin D3: But I'm just getting started... Keep reading EXPOSED: Vitamin D Treatment for C-19 Completely Vindicated By New Scientific Study! Imagine that...Vitamin D works. In fact, it works really well! Just. Like. We. Told. You! Here is my friend Kyle Becker with more on his Substack: Public health authorities around the world suppressed scientific evidence that Vitamin D deficiency was associated with severe Covid outcomes, and furthermore, some officials misled the public about alleged studies showing the vitamin did nothing for treating the viral infection. A 'Nature' report published in mid-November called the "Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality" is cause for concern for lockdown proponents. Vitamin D deficiency has long been associated with reduced immune function that can lead to viral infection. Several studies have shown that Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increases the risk of infection with COVID-19. However, it is unknown if treatment with Vitamin D can reduce the associated risk of COVID-19 infection, which is the focus of this study. In the population of US veterans, we show that Vitamin D2 and D3 fills were associated with reductions in COVID-19 infection of 28% and 20%, respectively [(D3 Hazard Ratio (HR) = 0.80, [95% CI 0.77, 0.83]), D2 HR = 0.72, [95% CI 0.65, 0.79]]. Mortality within 30-days of COVID-19 infection was similarly 33% lower with Vitamin D3 and 25% lower with D2 (D3 HR = 0.67, [95% CI 0.59, 0.75]; D2 HR = 0.75, [95% CI 0.55, 1.04]). We also find that after controlling for vitamin D blood levels, veterans receiving higher dosages of Vitamin D obtained greater benefits from supplementation than veterans receiving lower dosages. Veterans with Vitamin D blood levels between 0 and 19 ng/ml exhibited the largest decrease in COVID-19 infection following supplementation. Black veterans received greater associated COVID-19 risk reductions with supplementation than White veterans. As a safe, widely available, and affordable treatment, Vitamin D may help to reduce the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. The statistical analysis showed that "Vitamin D3 supplementation was associated with a 33% lower risk of COVID-19 infection ending in mortality within 30 days," the study noted. "However, results for vitamin D2 were statistically insignificant." Vitamin D insufficiency affects almost 50% of the population worldwide. Vitamin D supplements may have been helpful not only for treatment and prevention of Covid-19 treatment, but a host of other chronic illnesses. It was a win/win for the patients to get more sunshine and Vitamin D supplements, but arguably, a loss for public health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry that had gone into overdrive pushing a 'vaccines or nothing' Covid response. The 'Nature' study further throws into serious question the decision to enforce lockdowns during the Covid pandemic, which compelled millions of civilians to stay indoors, and deprived them of the Vitamin-D-promoting powers of sunlight. Furthermore, there is scarce if any evidence that Covid-19 is spread outdoors. Adding to the public's confusion on the matter, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock misled the Parliament in 2020 by stating that a Vitamin D study was conducted that showed it was not effective for treating Covid. "Health Secretary Matt Hancock was told to 'get his facts straight' today after shooting down vitamin D as a potential coronavirus treatment despite a growing body of evidence from around the world suggesting it works," the Daily Mail reported at the time. "Experts have for months been calling for officials to look into the immune system-boosting nutrient's effect on Covid-19 patients after a mountain of research showed a link to vitamin D deficiency," the report added. "Mr Hancock told the House of Commons last week he had green-lit a Government-funded 'trial' investigating vitamin D and that it did not 'appear to have any impact'." In 2020, however, there were data that showed strong correlations between Vitamin D and Covid outcomes. A University of East Anglia study showed that case rates tended to decrease with higher Vitamin D levels among the population. A University of Chicago study found 60 per cent higher rates of Covid-19 with low levels of the 'sunshine vitamin' among a sample population of 500 Americans. A study by Tehran University, in Iran, and Boston University analysed data from 235 hospitalised patients with Covid-19. Patients who had sufficient vitamin D - of at least 30 ng/mL— were 51.5 per cent less likely to die from the disease. Vitamin D isn't the only alleged 'fake news' treatment to have been vindicated in recent weeks. Without going into arguments about the efficacy of the medication, doctors have won a concession from government lawyers thatprescribing 'Ivermectin' for Covid infections in an off-label capacity is within the discretion of physicians. Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and Vitamin D have one thing in common: They were all low-cost alternatives to Covid vaccination and expensive treatments that Big Pharma dismissed out-of-hand during the pandemic. Was their rush to dismiss these treatments based on the Science or based on their profits? Further research is leading many to believe that it was much less of the former than the latter. We shouted this from the rooftops from Day 1! In fact, I think I may be one of the largest Vitamin D sellers in the world after I kept imploring everyone to get some and take it regularly! Who else would have known? All the doctors that got banned from social media and their medical licenses taken away for promoting things like Vitamin D, Ivermectin and other simple remedies! Who should have known? The MSM. Big Tech. Big Pharma. Oh, I believe they certainly did know, but you know what the problem is? Vitamin D is CHEAP! And not patented! And they needed us locked up in our houses for so many reasons... To complete the 2020 Steal... To demoralize the people... To weaken America... And so they could NOT allow the truth about Vitamin D to actually be admitted. Yet here we are 2 years later and the truth has now came out. It works. It works really well. WE TOLD YOU! Check this out: New research confirms vitamin D is associated with a significant reduction in Covid infection/mortality. Lies were told, freedoms were taken, lives were lost. There has to be an independent inquiry and a trial. Hold the line, never forget, no amnesty!pic.twitter.com/XHbriDO35U — Fr Calvin Robinson ©® (@calvinrobinson) November 20, 2022 And this: Another study showing that vitamin D intake leads to a reduction in COVID-19 rates and COVID-19 associated mortality: https://t.co/SLffhCnxex- Vitamin D3 was associated with a significant 33% decrease in mortality within 30-days of COVID-19 infection. pic.twitter.com/8N0jUsJGV6 — Dr John B. (@DrJohnB2) November 26, 2022 And this: HUGE NEWS A new study found that taking vitamin D reduces covid deaths by 33% Wonder why this isnt being promoted... Could it be because it's very cheaphttps://t.co/v9Jalo5u07 — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) November 22, 2022 From PeterSweden's Substack: Do you remember when years ago at the beginning of the pandemic, some people said it would be a good idea to take vitamin D and that it could possibly help against covid? Of course, they were called conspiracy theorists and vilified. Especially those who talked about a certain "horse paste" were very much attacked by the media. No, only crazy people would take something like that. The science had spoken! We would have to wait for some official new medicine from Pfizer to safely treat covid they said, a treatment that also happened to be very expensive and would make a lot of money... As as you probably know, more or less the only treatment we have been offered for covid is the mRNA vaccines, a technology that hasn't been widely used before. Take the vaccine and you would not get covid they said. In unrelated news... A cruise ship in Australia just had 800 people onboard get infected with covid. What the media isn't telling you is that everyone onboard had to be fully vaccinated AND tested. Very effective! It turns out there is in fact a very cheap, safe and effective thing that protects against covid - That thing is called vitamin D! By the way, this article is so important that I will not be putting any kind of paywall on it even though it took me a long time to write, as the information here can help save lives. So please take a few seconds to make sure you follow me (it's free) here on Substack, and share this article everywhere you can! Or if you want to support my work and help me write more important articles like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber A new study published in the prestigious nature magazine has indeed found that vitamin D not only reduced your risk of getting infected with covid, but also lowers the risk of death. This study is no small study either. Over 600 000 U.S veterans took part in the study, so we are getting good reliable data here. And they used different versions of vitamin D, one called vitamin D2 and the other vitamin D3 and they both produced different results. So what does the study show? For the participants who got vitamin D3, there was a nice 20% reduction in getting infected with covid. For those who got vitamin D2, there was large 28% reduction in covid infections. Meaning that if you took vitamin D2, you would be almost 30% less likely to even be infected by covid to begin with. That is huge. But for those who took a very high level dose of vitamin D, the reduction in covid infections was even higher. At an average daily dosage of 50 000 IU of vitamin D in people who had low levels to begin with, there was a 49% reduction in covid infections. It turns out that the higher the vitamin D dosage, the lower the risk for infection. Interesting. What about covid deaths? Here is where things get very interesting indeed. Let's begin by saying that among the untreated group, only 0.35% died from covid. So the death rate is pretty low to begin with. But there is a way to lower this death rate significantly...with vitamin D For those who took vitamin D3, there was a massive 33% REDUCTION in deaths within 30 days after a covid infection. Not only that, but there was actually another study done in Andalusia which saw the exact same 33% reduction in deaths. Two different studies done in different places giving the same result? I think that is what we call real science! So you reduce the risk of getting covid. You reduce the risk of dying after covid by taking vitamin D, a safe, effective and very cheap treatment. Why isn't this all over the news? HELLO!?!?! Read the full Substack here. More here: Everyone requires different amounts of vitamin D supplementation to achieve optimal 25(OH)D levels of 40-60 ng/ml pic.twitter.com/0aXrE2a7QX — Beth S. Sanford, DNP (@DNP4VitaminD) November 25, 2022 And here: "Vitamin D supplementation...was associated with a significant 20% and 28% reduction in...COVID-19 rates for vitamin D3 and vitamin D2, respectively. Vitamin D3 associated with a significant 33% decrease in mortality within 30-days of COVID-19 infection." https://t.co/5vREpGGTDZ — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 18, 2022 And here: No amnesty. Never forget. This doctor literally laughed at me for asking about potential benefits Vitamin D. He filed a complaint with my employer and Ofcom, who found in my favour. We must ask, why did they want to silence us from asking questions?pic.twitter.com/7cfWx40jMp — Fr Calvin Robinson ©® (@calvinrobinson) November 18, 2022 And here: Another Covid 'myth' bites the dust.https://t.co/h9gsWqoAdP — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 23, 2022 From Becker News: A ‘Nature’ report published in mid-November called the “Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality” is cause for concern for lockdown proponents. Vitamin D deficiency has long been associated with reduced immune function that can lead to viral infection. Several studies have shown that Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increases the risk of infection with COVID-19. However, it is unknown if treatment with Vitamin D can reduce the associated risk of COVID-19 infection, which is the focus of this study. In the population of US veterans, we show that Vitamin D2 and D3 fills were associated with reductions in COVID-19 infection of 28% and 20%, respectively [(D3 Hazard Ratio (HR) = 0.80, [95% CI 0.77, 0.83]), D2 HR = 0.72, [95% CI 0.65, 0.79]]. Mortality within 30-days of COVID-19 infection was similarly 33% lower with Vitamin D3 and 25% lower with D2 (D3 HR = 0.67, [95% CI 0.59, 0.75]; D2 HR = 0.75, [95% CI 0.55, 1.04]). We also find that after controlling for vitamin D blood levels, veterans receiving higher dosages of Vitamin D obtained greater benefits from supplementation than veterans receiving lower dosages. Veterans with Vitamin D blood levels between 0 and 19 ng/ml exhibited the largest decrease in COVID-19 infection following supplementation. Black veterans received greater associated COVID-19 risk reductions with supplementation than White veterans. As a safe, widely available, and affordable treatment, Vitamin D may help to reduce the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. The statistical analysis showed that “Vitamin D3 supplementation was associated with a 33% lower risk of COVID-19 infection ending in mortality within 30 days,” the study noted. “However, results for vitamin D2 were statistically insignificant.” Vitamin D insufficiency affects almost 50% of the population worldwide. Vitamin D supplements may have been helpful not only for treatment and prevention of Covid-19 treatment, but a host of other chronic illnesses. It was a win/win for the patients to get more sunshine and Vitamin D supplements, but arguably, a loss for public health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry that had gone into overdrive pushing a ‘vaccines or nothing’ Covid response. Who will be held accountible? How many people were unnecessarily killed by Covid because of the massive censorship campaign that memory-holed the benefits of Vitamin D, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine? Will anyone ever be held accountable for this? — Paul Mitchell (@PaulMitchell_AB) November 21, 2022 https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1594819033559404545 Here's what we told you all along.... Before we go any further, let me give you my standard disclaimer: I am not a doctor.  I'm not giving medical advice.  I'm not claiming I can treat or cure any medical disease.   There, we good? We on the same page? I am a reporter and an investigator and I love interviewing smart people.  Interesting people.  People who have something that can help the world! Ok, let's continue.... Because I'm very excited to share this with you and I think it might help a lot of people. I want to talk about the poison vaxx and it's damaging effects.... I know many people were forced into taking it. Threatened with the loss of their jobs.... Shamed into taking it... Bribed into taking it.... Conned into thinking you had to take it to "help Grandma". Whatever the case, millions of people now regret it and they want it OUT of their body! I can't guarantee results, but after talking with Chris Burres at C60 Evo I am so encouraged about what this might do for you. We talked about how similar it is to Glutathione and how it removes free radicals and bad actors from your body. Want to remove graphine? Want to remove poison nano-particles? Give your body a fighting chance! I'll let Burres explain in his own words... Watch here on Rumble: ESS60: The Secret To Overcoming The Poison Vaxx? Visit https://www.c60evo.com/welovetrump/ Promo code EVNOAH to save 10% Check out the testimonials too: There are a ton on the website, read them here: https://www.c60evo.com/welovetrump/ And that's not even to mention the Hair Restoration Product they just launched! I love C60 and I personally take it every day. Here's more about why: EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Is C60 Your "Secret Weapon" To Staying Healthy? Hi friends, Noah here with a Special Report! I want to take a moment to break from the news and talk about something that is vitally important:  your "vitals"! Your health is something that is more important now than ever before, so I had Chris Burres from C60 Evo back on my show to talk about what I'm calling the "secret weapon" to staying healthy. Why secret? Because most people have never heard about C60, but it's the real deal....that is, if you consider winning a "Nobel Prize" the real deal. Not a bad thing to have on your resume! I had Burres on my show a few months ago and I received so many questions for him about C60 that I had to get him back on and go through all of them. Now is NOT the time to take chances with your health....I think we can all agree on that, right? So if some of these questions sound familiar, it might be because they came from you! Before we go to the interview, let me give you a little more background.... First, let me give you my disclaimer: I'm not a doctor and I'm not giving you medical advice.  I'm not telling you this is going to treat or cure any condition you have.  I'm just telling you what I have personally experienced. Consult your own doctor before taking any vitamin, mineral, supplement or medicine. Because I have been taking C60 for over a year now and I love it! In fact, the only reason I ever connected with Burres in the first place is because I was such a fan of their product that I contacted them and asked if there was any way I could get them on the show! And they were gracious enough to give their time (twice now) to come on and chat with me. So let me talk to you for a bit about my personal experience with C60 over the past year and why I think it's so vital to keeping my immune system at FULL STRENGTH.... C60 is a powerful antioxidant often described as the "perfect carbon molecule". It's an antioxidant that has been measured to be 172x more powerful than Vitamin C!  How about that? No, it's not actually "Vitamin C" itself, it just has 172 times the antioxidant power of Vitamin C, and that's a big deal! That's like, 172 oranges! You can't eat 172 oranges, but you can protect and strengthen your body! Not only is it an antioxidant, but it's an anti-viral and an anti-bacterial and an anti-inflammatory. I'll tell you one thing....ever since I saw the Deep State going after Carbon and trying to tax carbon emissions with their Al-Gore Carbon Tax, I immediately knew one thing:  I bet Carbon is actually pretty good for you! Turns out I was right. Especially the Carbon-60 "perfect carbon molecule." So once I learned more about it, I then set out to find where to buy it from the most reputable company. I found there are a lot of companies selling C60 that might actually be bad for you and toxic (not fit for human consumption!), so I found the one that has the highest standards and safest, most continually-tested product out there....and that was C60 Evo. I've been personally taking C60 for over a year and feel amazing so in light of all the health issues plaguing our nation right now, I decided I'd have one of its founders, Chris Burres, back on my show. We kept this interview a little shorter so listen closely as we move FAST through a ton of details. If you're ready to: Get better, deep and restful sleep.... Have more energy during the day... Experience less negative effects after drinking alcohol... Keep your immune system in prime condition... ....then you need to hear this interview. Watch right here from Rumble: To visit their website go to https://www.c60evo.com/welovetrump/ Use promo code EVNOAH to save 10%. Backup here on YouTube: To visit their website go to https://www.c60evo.com/welovetrump/ Use promo code EVNOAH to save 10%. Now....want even more on an immune-boosting health plan? Look no further than my friend Clif High. Clif has routinely promoted C60 in the past and here is even more of what he recommends. Take a look: Vaxx repair protocol... pic.twitter.com/stvjmbbCmn — clif is antiselenite (@clif_high) August 11, 2021 If that Tweet gets taken down, here is a screenshot of what he posted: I'm going to give you my disclaimer once again..... DISCLAIMER: I'm not a doctor and I don't practice medicine. And neither is Clif! Neither of us is giving you medical advice.  NOTHING in this article is medical advice. Ok? Ok. I'm just reporting on what others have said. But let's be honest....I think I can probably do better than the "doctors" like Dr. Fraudci, Dr. Birxx who lie to you and serve you up a big heaping pile of propaganda! You can probably take whatever they tell you to do and just do the opposite and you'd probably be pretty close to an ideal course of action! So no, I'm not a doctor, but if being a doctor puts you in the same class as Dr. FRAUDci, then I take not being a doctor as a badge of honor. I'm a reporter. I simply report what I hear and see from others. To paraphrase a once great network: I report, you decide! But what I can report is that it sure looks like some very basic stuff can drastically help you recover and protect your body going forward! Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Chaga Mushroom Tea, C60, and of course hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin may be highly effective! If you scroll down, I have links for you. And let's consider the worst case scenario.....taking more vitamins is almost never a bad thing, right? Your body needs them regardless of what virus is floating around out there. As long as you don't take too much of the fat-soluble vitamins, it's almost NEVER a bad thing to give your body more vitamins. Now let me give you a little more background on Clif and why he's making these recommendations.... Watch this video where Clif High explains what the spike protein is actually doing to your body, why it is definitely a bio-weapon, and how each of the items listed above can help: [iframe src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/sbls9aO7kys6/" width="100%" height="360"] Here is one more where he goes into even more detail and in this one he talks about the power of C60 and why you need to get some! Ever since you were a kid, you were told to get your vitamins! It's basic advice that was good then and is still good now! You need large doses of the right kind of Vitamin C, 10-15,000 IU's of Vitamin D to maintain certain blood levels, and then Clif recommends C60 too. Watch the interview here from Rumble (they discuss it in the first 10 minutes) and then scroll down for links to where you can get the best of each item: If you want to follow Clif's advice, here are some links to the products I like to use. Unfortunately, I can't give you a link to NAC on Amazon because Amazon banned it. One of the oldest and most trusted supplements in the bodybuilding industry and Amazon suddenly banned it right now. Interesting. So we go with the rest of the list.... First is Glutathione: You want to get "Liposomal" Vitamin C, very important. And in case that sells out, which tends to happen, this is another good Liposomal Vitamin C: Now on to Vitamin D. Here is my current favorite and the one I personally take: And a backup Vitamin D3: And Chaga Mushroom Tea: And here is the Zinc Balance: And we end with C60. As I mentioned above, I've been personally taking C60 for over a year and I have not came down with COVID.  Not saying it treats or prevents COVID, I'm just saying my experience. Regardless of COVID, I love taking it and have noticed multiple benefits. Here's what many people have reported: C60 is a powerful antioxidant (172x the power of Vitamin C), antiviral, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory.  I liked it so much I actually contacted the company and got everyone who is reading this a deal. The company is called C60Evo. Go to their website here and then be sure to use promo code EVNOAH and you'll get 10% off your order! I love this stuff and I think you will too. Cheers to good health and a big thank you to Clif High for putting out this information! No, I'm not promising you won't get COVID, but I am saying that TAKING YOUR VITAMINS and powerful ANTIOXIDANTS is a good idea! Be smart. Be safe. Be healthy! SHARE!