DEA warns of accidental fentanyl ‘mass-overdose events across the United States’

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sent a letter to all “local, state and federal law enforcement partners” to warn of a terrifying trend across the United States. The letter begins:

The DEA is seeing a nationwide spike in fentanyl-related mass-overdose events involving three or more overdoses occurring close in time at the same location. In just the past two months, there have been at least 7 confirmed mass overdose events across the United States resulting in 58 overdoses and 29 overdose deaths.

Shockingly, many of the mass overdose victims “thought they were ingesting cocaine and had no idea that they were in fact ingesting fentanyl” the letter states. The letter goes on to plead to all law enforcement that if a mass-overdose event occurs in their area, the local DEA office should be contacted immediately.

“DEA special agents and intelligence analysts stand ready to offer all of the resources at our disposal to assist your offices in any way we can.” The letter lists out the known overdose events in the United States this year:

• On March 10, 2022, 6 individuals overdosed at a rental property in Wilton Manors, Florida after being exposed to a substance that they believed was cocaine, but contained fentanyl.

• On March 4, 2022, 21 individuals overdosed, 3 of whom died, at a homeless shelter in downtown Austin, Texas after ingesting crack-cocaine and methamphetamine laced with fentanyl.

• On March 3, 2022, 3 individuals overdosed and died in a hotel room in Cortez, Colorado after ingesting what that they believed were 30mg oxycodone pills, but which were in fact fake prescription pills containing fentanyl.

• On February 20, 2022, 6 individuals overdosed, 5 of whom died, in the same apartment in Commerce City, Colorado after ingesting a substance that they believed was pure cocaine, but was in fact pure fentanyl. 1

• On February 6, 2022, 4 individuals overdosed, 2 of whom died, in the same apartment complex in Omaha, Nebraska after ingesting a substance that they believed was cocaine, but contained fentanyl.

• Between February 5-7, 2022, 8 individuals overdosed, 7 of whom died, at an apartment complex in St. Louis, Missouri after ingesting crack-cocaine laced with fentanyl.

• On January 28, 2022, 10 individuals overdosed, 9 of whom died, within the same city block in Washington, D.C. after ingesting crack-cocaine laced with fentanyl.

The letter continues:

Tragic events like these are being driven by fentanyl. Fentanyl is highly-addictive, found in all 50 states, and drug traffickers are increasingly mixing it with other types of drugs—in powder and pill form—in an effort to drive addiction and attract repeat buyers. These mass-overdose events typically occur in one of the following recurring scenarios: when drug dealers sell their product as “cocaine,” when it actually contains fentanyl; or when drug dealers sell fake prescription pills designed to appear nearly identical to legitimate prescriptions—such as OxyContin®, Percocet®, or Vicodin®—that are actually fake prescription pills containing fentanyl. This is creating a frightening nationwide trend where many overdose victims are dying after unknowingly ingesting fentanyl.

Fentanyl is driving the nationwide overdose epidemic: the CDC estimates that in the 12-month period ending in October 2021, over 105,000 Americans died of drug overdoses and over 66% of those deaths were related to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Last year, the United States suffered more fentanyl-related deaths than gun-related and auto-related deaths combined.

At DEA, we are working to trace mass-overdose events back to the local drug trafficking organizations and to the international cartels that are responsible for the surging domestic supply of fentanyl. We are utilizing all of the federal government’s resources to hold these organizations accountable for their roles in these tragic events. DEA special agents are trained to respond to mass-overdose events and we stand ready to offer all of the federal resources at our disposal to assist your offices in any way we can. We offer the following guidance and support:

1. Contact DEA: If a mass-overdose event occurs in your area of responsibility, please contact your local DEA office right away. When these mass-overdose events occur, all of our Field Divisions stand ready to assist in:

o Interdicting the substance that is driving the spike in overdoses;

o Investigating and identifying the dealers and larger drug trafficking

organizations responsible for the overdose event;

o Providing priority access to all of DEA’s resources, including our labs,

chemists, and overdose subject matter experts;

o Assisting with the presentation of the investigation to federal prosecutors; and

o Warning the public about the lethal drug threat.

1. DEA Training: DEA offers trainings on mass-overdose events. Our special agents specialize in identifying the criminal drug networks responsible for these events and are available to support you in any way they can.

2. Assume Fentanyl: We recommend that the members of your offices assume that all drugs encountered during enforcement activities now contain fentanyl. Given fentanyl’s extreme toxicity and the increases we are seeing in the distribution of polydrug substances containing fentanyl, please take all the precautions you would take when handling fentanyl whenever you interdict any illicit substance.

Thank you for your work on this critically-important issue. DEA stands ready to leverage all of our resources to support your offices in responding to this unprecedented and growing threat.

Ivermectin Wars Intensify in Kansas Media: An Early COVID-19 Treatment Advocate’s Response

Today, the Kansas City Star reported that the Kansas Board of Healing Arts declared that a letter authored by Sen. Mark Steffen sent to hospitals and clinics informing them of the possible benefits of off-label treatments for COVID-19 had no legal or regulatory weight, representing “simply his opinion.” TrialSite shared the Republican Senator’s letter along with a brief interview with Steffen. Now Steffen responds to the local newspaper, essentially reminding them of physicians’ Hippocratic Oath and more while putting them on notice. 

TrialSite reviewed what reads as an attack piece by the Kansas City Star against pro-early COVID-19 care treatment physician and state Senator Mark Steffen for his promotion of the recent medical freedom bill passed by the Senate.

In association with today’s Kansas City Star article, TrialSite reached out to Senator Steffen who shared with this media a letter he drafted to send to that newspaper—it’s published below.

Senator Steffen’s response begins with a warning to the local media that unscrupulous, misleading or outright defamatory practices would be met with a vigorous legal response.

What follows is the Senator’s letter:

Your reputation to mislead precedes you. Any misquote will be pursued to the fullest extent of the law.

The Board, like most all government agencies, fell in line with the Covid propaganda that was never science based.

The Board was encouraged/intimidated by their own national association into squashing early treatment.

The Board promoted the narrative of suffering and death through unfounded investigations that continue in perpetuity because the data did not support the complaints. To find a provider at fault without data backing their decision would open them to countless lawsuits.

The Board has dozens of great Kansas physicians currently under investigations that date back up to two years. That is blatant abuse of power or utter incompetence.

Denying early treatment for Covid (particularly to high-risk individuals) when multiple options are available is clearly negligence. No statutory relief covers negligence. I am available to testify to that effect.

The most recent mainstream, academic medicine studies evaluating ivermectin inaccurately interpret the data, treat patients late in the disease course, or use incorrect dosages without the other vital medications such as zinc, vit D3, and vit C. Cumulatively, the well-conducted studies clearly signal that these multi-drug regimens are effective. A signal towards efficacy is all that is necessary in the midst of a mass casualty event or when other treatments remain minimally available.

Providers have a legal duty to their patients to understand early Covid treatment. It is clearly negligent to tell your patients to “go home until you can’t breathe”.

The standard of care is early treatment with FDA approved medications in a multi-drug approach.

So much of the suffering and death over the past two years was avoidable if the Board would have facilitated treatment rather than stifle it through unfounded investigations. Much of the blame also falls at the feet of Governor Kelly and her KDHE (remember Lee Norman?).

Senator Mark Steffen, M.D.

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Pandemic Pushed Politics and Killed Evidence-Based Medicine JoelSHirschhorn

Follow the science turned out to be a political slogan designed to justify a host of government actions that were, in fact, not based on science. Smart people learned never to trust powerful people like Fauci who used this phrase to get public support, mostly for COVD vaccines.

Long before that phrase was used the medical establishment believed they had a moral and professional responsibility to use evidence based medicine to serve their patients.

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People like Fauci ignored the best evidence and this explains why everything he tried to push on Americans did not make medical sense. Some bought into the propaganda, but many did not.

Hard to believe in this pandemic, but historically modern medicine had been based for a long time on evidence. Evidence-based medicine always made sense; medical practice should, of course, be based on solid scientific data and documented clinical experience. But something has changed. The whole medical system has been corrupted. Too many people have been fooled by phony medical experts.  Fauci is the poster child for corrupt physicians pushing personal preferences that are not supported by medical data.

When you kill evidence based medicine you kill people, as shown by over one million COVID deaths in the US.

A recent medical journal article was titled “The illusion of evidence-based medicine.” Here are a few of its key points:

“Evidence-based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation, and commercialisation of academia.”

“Industry sponsored clinical trials are misrepresented. Until this problem is corrected, evidence-based medicine will remain an illusion.”

“A science of real integrity would be one in which practitioners are careful not to cling to cherished hypotheses and take seriously the outcome of the most stringent experiments.”

“Scientific progress is thwarted by the ownership of data and knowledge because industry suppresses negative trial results, fails to report adverse events, and does not share raw data with the academic research community. Patients die because of the adverse impact of commercial interests on the research agenda, universities, and regulators.”

Another article aimed at physicians was “Another Casualty of COVID-19: Evidence-Based Medicine.” Here are a few of its key points.

“COVID-19 has not only exacted a heavy human and economic toll, but the pandemic effectively ‘killed evidence-based medicine in this country,’ a New York oncologist argued.”

“An analysis of 11 highly cited journals showed that the median time for peer review decreased from 90 days in 2019 to 19 days for COVID-related articles in 2020.” [In other words, science rushed is science ruined.]

“A fundamental mistrust of medical science has arisen from a polarized society. In general, medical school has ‘very poor training in evidence-based medicine,’” said a conference speaker.

Also recently, Dr. Robert W. Malone wrote an essay on his substack site “The illusion of evidence-based medicine – How the government stopped worrying and learned to love propaganda.” Here are some of his key points.

“Evidence-based medicine is ‘the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.’ The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of the patient, and the best available scientific information to guide decision-making about clinical management.”

“The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 to 2022 has exposed for all to see how evidence-based medicine has been corrupted by the governments, hospitalists, academia, big pharma, tech and social media. They have leveraged the processes and rationale of evidence-based medicine to corrupt the entire medical enterprise.”

“Patients die because of the adverse impact of commercial interests on the research agenda, universities, and regulators.”

“And the billion dollars spent by the US Government to promote these EUA/unlicensed “vaccine” products that do not prevent infection or transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This is a direct assault on our first amendment rights. It also skews evidence-based medicine.”

“The government must stop picking winners and losers. Evidence-based medicine requires a non-biased playing field. Industry concerns about privacy and intellectual property rights should not hold sway. If we are ever to trust and support the concept of evidence-based medicine again, significant changes to the system must be enacted. The only question is… is our government up to the job?”

Conclusions

The loss of evidence-based medicine explains the justifiable loss of public confidence in the entire medical and public health establishment. Well-motivated people can access medical data on the web and see how government dictates are worthless propaganda. But not everyone takes the time to discover good data.

The wide use of the term “follow the science” was a semantic trick by the powerful forces corrupting the system to intentionally fool the public. As they were lying about following the science, they were destroying the evidence-based paradigm that had been cherished by most medical professionals. And that best served patients.

Patients could no longer trust their doctors. Now, they don’t know whether their doctors are merely following protocols and mandates coming from government agencies or their corporate employers. Patients are not getting personalized medicine. Their doctors are not likely following the latest research and data (which takes considerable time) that may conflict with what government agencies, medical societies and corporate health employers are dictating.

But what must be said is that there are a minority of independent physicians who still use evidence-based medicine to best serve their patients. They run medical practices independent of corporate health entities. They are likely to be members of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and America’s Frontline Doctors. They are likely to be doctors using alternatives to COVID vaccines and teaching their patients to pursue lifestyles that ensure strong immune systems and avoid chronic medical problems like obesity and diabetes.

They are not doctors blindly following the positions of the big medical societies that are blindly following government positions. All this blindness explains why the medicines that could have saved most lives from COVID infection were not used. And so now we have over one million dead from COVID, and over one million people who have gotten adverse health impacts from COVID vaccines. The medical establishment is a disgrace.

Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn, author of Pandemic Blunder and many articles and podcasts on the pandemic, worked on health issues for decades, and his Pandemic Blunder Newsletter is on Substack. As a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he directed a medical research program between the colleges of engineering and medicine. As a senior official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association, he directed major studies on health-related subjects; he testified at over 50 US Senate and House hearings and authored hundreds of articles and op-ed articles in major newspapers. He has served as an executive volunteer at a major hospital for more than 10 years. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and America’s Frontline Doctors.

RE: Malone v. The New York Times Company et al. — A line has been crossed RWMaloneMD

Note that views expressed in this opinion article are the writer’s personal views and not necessarily those of TrialSite.

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

From: Steven S. Biss,

Attorney At Law
300 West Main Street, Suite 102 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

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April 6, 2022

To: David E. McCraw

Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel The New York Times Company
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, New York 10018 mccrad@nytimes.com

(and) Davey Alba
dalba@bloomberg.net davey.alba@gmail.com

RE: Malone v. The New York Times Company et al.

Dear Mr. McCraw and Ms. Alba:

I represent Dr. Robert W. Malone in connection with his claims against The New York Times Company (“NYT”), Davey Alba (“Alba”) and unknown editors and publishers for defamation, defamation by implication and insulting words.

On April 3, 2022, NYT published an article on its website written by Alba, entitled “The Latest Covid Misinformation Star Says He Invented the Vaccines”.

Expectedly, NYT and Alba repeatedly republished the Article via social media. [See, e.g., hers Twitter Post 1 and her Twitter Post 2].

The Article contains false and defamatory statements of fact of or concerning Dr. Malone, including:

1. The headline misrepresents that Dr. Malone is the “Latest Covid Misinformation Star” and further states that “[e]ven two years into the pandemic, new misinformation stars are being minted”;

2. The Article falsely accuses Dr. Malone of “spreading unfounded claims about the vaccines and the virus”;

3. The Article falsely states that “in recent months, as the coronavirus pandemic has persisted, he has taken up an entirely different role: spreading misinformation about the virus and vaccines on conservative programs”;

4. The Article misrepresents that “Dr. Malone joins medical professionals and scientists, like Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Judy Mikovits, whose profiles have grown during the pandemic as they spread misinformation about mask-wearing and convoluted conspiracy theories about virus experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci”;

5. The Article misrepresents that “Dr. Malone has twisted legitimate policy debates to use them as cover for continuing to spread misinformation and to advance claims about the pandemic that are demonstrably incorrect”;

6. “Robert Malone is exploiting the fact that data-driven course correction is inherent to the scientific process to peddle disinformation. It’s extraordinarily dishonest and morally bankrupt”.

The qualities disparaged by NYT and Alba – Dr. Malone’s honesty, veracity, integrity, judgment, morals and ethics as a licensed medical doctor – are peculiarly valuable to Dr. Malone and are absolutely necessary in the practice and profession of any medical doctor. The Article ascribes to Dr. Malone conduct, characteristics and conditions, including, without limitation, intent to deceive and defraud, misinformation, disinformation, grifting and financial exploitation, that would adversely affect his fitness to be a medical professional and to conduct the business of a medical doctor. See, e.g., Goulmamine v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., 138 F.Supp.3d 652, 659 (E.D. Va. 2015) (that a physician has committed misconduct worthy of losing his license to practice medicine or dispense controlled substances is sufficiently similar to suggesting an attorney has committed conduct worthy of disbarment); Echtenkamp v. Loudoun County Public Schools, 263 F.Supp.2d 1043, 1064 (E.D. Va. 2003) (statements that “could be construed  either imply or to state directly that plaintiff lacks integrity or is unfit for her profession” where actionable); Carwile v. Richmond Newspapers, 196 Va. 1, 8, 82 S.E.2d 588 (1954) (“Every false and unauthorized imputation, spoken, written, or printed which imputes to a business or professional man conduct which tends to injure him in his business or profession is libelous and actionable without allegation or proof of special damages.”).

In addition to the above false statements, the Article misrepresents Dr. Malone’s credentials, role and achievements in the development of mRNA technology and vaccines:

7. The Article misrepresents that “[w]hile he was involved in some early research into the technology, his role in its creation was minimal at best”; and

8. The Article misstates that “[t]he idea that he is the inventor of mRNA vaccines is a totally false claim”.

Significantly, Dr. Malone offered to show Alba the evidence concerning his research and invention of the mRNA technology, but Alba refused to review it.

NYT and Alba’s false statements were immediately understood to convey a defamatory meaning about Dr. Malone, see, e.g.:

(“Recently @daveyalba wrote a profile on Robert Malone, who is a lushly bearded, pro-COVID money vortex fueled by his own self-aggrandizing mythology & anti-vaccine fantasies. He profits from the suffering of others”);

(“Dr. Robert Malone says he helped invent mRNA vaccines and has been wronged for decades. Now he’s spreading unfounded claims about the vaccines and the virus”);

(“Not only does Dr. Malone embellish his credentials and spread deadly misinformation, he also attacks his critics in very dangerous ways”);

(“The first rule of COVID grifters: ‘Robert Malone is exploiting the fact that data- driven course correction is inherent to the scientific process to peddle disinformation. It’s extraordinarily dishonest and morally bankrupt’”);

(“Robert Malone Spreads Falsehoods About Vaccines”);

(“Dr Robert Malone has leapt to prominence as one of the leading voices spreading COVID-19 misinformation. He has done this on the false claim that he ‘invented’ mRNA technology”);

(“this was a really great piece by @daveyalba about someone i have been particularly curious about: Dr. Robert Malone, who claims to be the inventor of the MRNA vaxx. Now, he spends his time peddling misinfo about Covid & the vaxx”);

(“I wish the NYT would just come out and say he’s a liar rather than ‘spreading misinformation”);

(“COVID-19 has been a godsend for conspiracy influencers, who have seized the chance to spread confusion about the vaccine no matter how many people they hurt”);

(“ There’s gold in them thar hills: Robert Malone, who styles himself as the inventor of mRNA vaccines and has become a major source of vaccine misinformation, makes at least $31,200 a month from Substack, plus frequent appearances on conservative TV”);

(“ Robert Malone is a liar and a fraud. 2. He did not ‘invent’ the vaccines. 3. What’s up with framing this fraud as a ‘star?’”)

NYT and Alba’s false and defamatory statements injured Dr. Malone’s reputation and business. Dr. Malone’s reputation as a medical professional has been severely compromised.

Demand is hereby made for an immediate public retraction of the false and defamatory statements in the Article, a written apology, and compensation for the presumed and actual damages suffered by Dr. Malone, including the insult, pain, humiliation, embarrassment, mental suffering and injury to his reputation.

In order to mitigate the damage you have caused, the retractions must prominently notify NYT’s online advertisers, subscribers, and viewers, and NYT and Alba’s social media followers, that NYT and Alba retract and withdraw the scandalous statements in the Article.

NYT and its agents are hereby on NOTICE that Dr. Malone contends that the statements in the Article are false and defamatory. Nunes v. Lizza, 12 F. 4th 890, 901 (8th Cir. 2021) (“‘Republication of a statement after the defendant has been notified that the plaintiff contends that it is false and defamatory may be treated as evidence of reckless disregard.’ Restatement (Second) of Torts § 580A cmt. d (Am. L. Inst. 1977). Lizza tweeted the article in November 2019 after Nunes filed this lawsuit and denied the article’s implication. The pleaded facts are suggestive enough to render it plausible that Lizza, at that point, engaged in ‘the purposeful avoidance of the truth.’”). Demand is further made upon NYT and Alba to cease and desist from any further publication and/or republication of the false and defamatory statements.

My client wishes to resolve this matter amicably and without litigation. If you refuse to take the above action within 30 days of the date of this letter, or if the retractions are insufficient, he intends to take appropriate legal action to protect his rights and interests.

Call or email me if you have any questions.

Yours very truly,

Steven S. Biss

The mysterious journey of the Ukrainian children lost between Huelva and the Canary Islands

The clues were more or less concrete. A group of between 30 and 40 Ukrainian minors, accompanied by three adults, would take a ferry from Huelva —or perhaps from Cádiz— to reach the Canary Islands. The promoter of the trip would be a Ukrainian woman residing in Fuerteventura. The information indicated that they would leave the Peninsula on Tuesday and land on the islands on Friday. Call crossing.

The alert mobilized authorities in the Canary Islands, Madrid and Andalusia who, in turn, also activated the police. All of them have spent almost a week trying to locate the group and prevent the trip. Neither can the transfer of children be encouraged without the knowledge of the authorities, nor can the Canary Islands, saturated with the arrival of almost 3,000 minors in the last two years, have the capacity to deal with more. The agents deployed an operation to supervise the ferries on Tuesday, also those on Friday. And even on Saturday. But no trace.

The bizarre story, told by four sources familiar with the case, arises when the Ukrainian woman requests space from the local authorities of the islands to accommodate a large group of children. It was already her second mission. On March 11, she had brought three guardians and 16 minors from an orphanage near kyiv to La Oliva, in Fuerteventura. That time she did it in close collaboration with the mayor of this municipality of 25,000 inhabitants, but she did not coordinate with anyone else. The general direction of childhood, responsible for minors in distress, found out about this reception by the press. On this second occasion, both the La Oliva City Council and the child protection service disavowed the plan. And the doors that the woman knocked on did not open. But she, according to the sources consulted, continued with her mission.

The group of children, however, still does not appear. Was the information not quite correct? Looking for a ghost group? Are they already, as you think, in Spain? Police sources affirm that the group does indeed exist, although no one has seen it. And this despite the odyssey that would involve moving such a large contingent of minors from one place to another without attracting attention.

The Ukrainian woman, who has been receiving calls from the authorities for days to discourage the trip, denies EL PAÍS any connection with the initiative. “I don’t know anything about this subject. Every day, for almost a week, she calls me a different person and asks: ‘Are your children in Huelva?’ What children? What Huelva?’ I don’t know anything about those children, ”she replied, fed up with the matter. “Looking for accommodation is another matter, but I don’t know anything about Huelva. At the moment, I am not expecting any child, ”she settled. Various sources in the Canary Islands insist that she is the one behind this mission, although no one knows where the first clue that links her to the minors in Huelva came from.

The case of these children that no one can find is an example of the lack of control that is increasingly worrying the Spanish and Ukrainian authorities. The warnings about the transfers and the reception without official supervision of minors, the most vulnerable of the war, come in crescendo since the Russian invasion began on February 24. The initiatives to remove children from Ukraine are numerous, but they have to be carried out in accordance with the legislation of the two States, with the corresponding authorizations. Even when organizations or autonomous communities agree with the Ukrainian Embassy itself, the transfer of minors to Spain must also mediate the Spanish State. The Ministry of Justice, specifically, is the Central Authority for the defense of the 1980 Hague Convention, the legal framework to protect children in cross-border situations. And, until now and despite the number of children who have been transferred to Spain, the Ministry of Justice has not received any request, according to the sources consulted.

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Spontaneous and uncontrolled solidarity, although well-intentioned, in addition to not complying with established protocols, can favor criminal activities related to human trafficking and trafficking. This same week, the National Police arrested a Ukrainian man at the South bus station in Madrid who was posing as a relative of two adolescents aged 15 and 16. The agents were already on notice, but the interrogations and the content of the minors’ luggage, “clothes not in accordance with the temperatures of this time of year” and many cosmetic products, confirmed the police’s worst suspicions.

Since the Russian offensive began, almost 14,000 minors have been registered in Spain, 40% of the almost 35,000 displaced persons who already have their papers in order in Spain. Among them, more than a hundred are minors who arrived in the country without the company of adults. There are still hundreds to evacuate.

The fear for the little ones has even resulted in a verbal note sent by the Ukrainian embassy to the Foreign Ministry. In the document, to which EL PAÍS has had access, the appeal of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, is transmitted to all the States that are receiving children —orphans or not— in their territories. “There is an increasing risk of sibling separation, illegal movement and illegal placement of such children in foreign families or of Ukrainian citizens living abroad,” the note says. Specifically, the text warns about the threat of adoptions taking place without following legal procedures and informs that while the martial law decreed in Ukraine lasts, no adoption can be carried out.

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US spies admit running anti-Russia 'info war' – media

Releases to the press were intended to “deter” Russia, even if the intel was flimsy, NBC has revealed

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US intelligence officials have leaked information about the Ukraine conflict that wasn’t “rock solid” and outright made up some claims, all to win an “info war” against the Kremlin, according to an NBC News report on Wednesday. The officials admitted to, and boasted about, releasing this misinformation.

When the American media cited US “intelligence” to warn that Russia was preparing to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, and when President Joe Biden repeated these warnings, they were participating in a disinformation campaign, the NBC report reveals.

According to the intelligence officials who came up with the warning, the intention was to discourage Russia from actually using these weapons, even though they themselves rated the intelligence used “low confidence.”

NBC quotes the officials involved in releasing such “low confidence” intelligence, who described their mission to misinform as part of an effort to “undermine Moscow’s propaganda and prevent Russia from defining how the war is perceived in the world.”

Some releases were accurate. For instance, the Biden administration insisted for weeks that Russian President Vladimir Putin intended to launch an assault on Ukraine. 

READ MORE: Washington gets grilled over Russia ‘false flag’ claims (VIDEO)

More were fabricated: A report that Putin was “being misled by his own advisers,” as NBC put it, was made up. So was an assertion by US officials that Putin had turned to China for military aid. Despite being fabricated, the latter was released to discourage China from actually doing what the officials said it was doing – sending arms to Russia, they said.

One European official cited by NBC said that the report was “a public game to prevent any military support from China.” 

“There’s no way you can prove or disprove that stuff,” a retired intelligence operative told NBC regarding the claims that Putin was being misled by his own team.

Prior to the outbreak of war, US media warned for weeks that Russia was laying the groundwork to attack Russian-speakers in the Donbass region and blame the attack on Ukrainian nationalists, thus generating a pretext for war.

These reports cited Pentagon and State Department officials and unnamed “intelligence sources,” none of whom provided evidence to back up their claims. When pressed, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that those who doubted the claims were finding “solace in the information the Russians are putting out.” Now the NBC story reveals that the assertion was indeed cooked up by US spies.

“It doesn’t have to be solid intelligence,” one US official said. “It’s more important to get out ahead of [the Russians], Putin specifically, before they do something.”

While the officials cited in the report admitted to at the very least exaggerating their claims, another unnamed US official quickly responded to the network, insisting that the National Security Council and “intelligence community” made sure to “validate the quality” of everything they released to the public.

One of the authors of the NBC story is Ken Dilanian, a national security reporter shown in 2014 to have had a “collaborative” relationship with the CIA. He was disavowed by his then-employer, the Los Angeles Times, as the resu

Pennsylvania man faces possibility of 1,000 years in prison for list of child sex abuse charges, including rape of girls under 5 years old NEWS PHIL SHIVER

A 22-year-old man from central Pennsylvania accused of sexually abusing children faces the possibility of a millennium behind bars for his egregious actions.

In a press release issued last week, the Newberry Township Police Department reported that officers arrested Isaiah John Metz on March 30 and charged him with a whopping 115 counts related to child sexual abuse.

A large majority of the charges filed against Metz are felonies — including three counts of rape of an underaged child, two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, two counts of aggravated indecent assault, fifty counts of sexual abuse of children, and 50 counts of child pornography.

If convicted on just the 100 counts of sexual abuse of children and child pornography, Metz could face up to 1,000 years in prison, People reported.

According to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Penn Live, Metz stands accused of raping two girls under the age of 5 and posting dozens of photos and videos of the assaults online.

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The outlet added that Metz was babysitting one of the victims on July 24, 2021, while her sister went to a doctor’s appointment, when he assaulted her.

Court documents stated that the young girl was acting noticeably more emotional than normal when her family returned home from the doctor’s office. During bath time the next day, she reportedly told her parents that her vagina was hurting.

Police then launched an investigation into the incident, during which they collected DNA samples from a pair of underwear and from the chair that the girl and Metz were sitting on when she alleged that the assault occurred.

The outlet reported that representatives from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children later informed investigators that Metz had uploaded photos and videos of himself sexually assaulting the two girls to the internet.

According to the arrest affidavit, 42 photos and eight videos of the girls were found on Metz’s Samsung Galaxy phone in February.

Penn Live did not offer details regarding other incidents of rape or child sexual abuse.

It was not immediately clear based on court records where Metz is being held or whether he had been granted bail.

Police or other officials in York County, Pennsylvania, have yet to comment on the case publicly.