ICWA Weekly News 10-30-24
Rep. McMorris Rodgers Committee exposes CDC COVID PsyWar Campaign; Clallam jail worker tells of mandate abuse; SMF Files Case for Alison Morrow; DOH Sets Emergency Water Rules - but not for Fluoride.
In this issue:
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers Exposes CDC’s PsyWar Campaign on COVID-19
Firing of Clallam Bay Corrections Center Sergeant Reflects COVID-19 Shot Mandate Abuse
Silent Majority Foundation Fights for Alison (Morrow) Westover
Latest Fluoride Report Not Part of DOH Emergency Update Plan for Drinking Water
October 25, 2024 Episode of Informed Life Radio - - notes and links
Health Hour: The Wisdom of Barbara O’Neill
Guest: Barbara O’Neill a beloved natural health educator, known around the world for her inspiring educational lectures and healing retreats, discusses her new book Sustain Me.
Sustain Me, a Handbook of Natural Remedies.
Wholesome Recipes from The Healthy Misty Mountain Kitchen Cookbook Collection
The home of Barbara O'Neill (Formally Misty Mountain USA) – BarbaraOneill.com
Liberty Hour: COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Compensation?
Guest: Wayne Rohde, author of The Vaccine Court, host of Right on Point podcast, and Vaccine Court blogger, provides updates on the sort of compensation those injured by the COVID-19 shots are receiving - and not receiving.
Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) HRSA Data
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) HRSA Vaccine Court Data
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers Exposes CDC’s PsyWar Campaign on COVID-19
As we highlighted in the January 24, 2024 ICWA Weekly News, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Spokane, District 5) has openly supported COVID-19 shots by saying things like this statement on August 23, 2021.
This approval will build more confidence and trust in the vaccines, which are safe and highly effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and death from COVID-19. For anyone in Eastern Washington who hasn’t yet been vaccinated, I encourage you to talk to your doctor. Getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself and your family. It’s how we beat this pandemic and restore our way of life…The COVID-19 vaccines, made possible by President Trump’s historic partnership with the private sector, turned that hope into a reality. The vaccines are saving lives, lowering risks so we can keep our schools and businesses open, and giving people the courage to dream again.
We viewed this statement as probably fed to her from the CDC news release desk and we hoped it was not indicative of what she really thinks. We also wrote that, “We are trusting that Rep. McMorris Rodgers finally learned what our readers know and is ready to indict criminals.”
It’s not like Rep. McMorris Rodgers wasn’t warned. In fact, at the time of the November 2019 Vaccine Injury Epidemic (VIE) Event, many ICWA advocates traveled to Washington D.C. and held a meeting with the honorable representative. In at least one 30-minute meeting, they explained the shortcomings of the U.S. childhood vaccine program and the “safe and effective” lies told by the CDC.
Some indication that she might be waking up came in 2023 when her House Energy and Commerce Committee agreed to take on special investigations into the COVID origins and the HHS Covid Public Health Campaign. Now, on October 23rd, the committee released its report on the government’s misuse of psychological manipulation during the pandemic. The news was announced in a press release of the report titled, “We Can Do This: An Assessment of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Covid-19 Public Health Campaign.”
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has officially published this scathing document exposing the significant public health missteps, fibs, and cover-ups from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its subagency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“CDC’s guidance, which the campaign relied on, went beyond the terms of FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to state, without evidence, that COVID vaccines were highly effective against transmission,” the report stated. “This ultimately had a negative impact on vaccine confidence and the CDC’s credibility when proven untrue.”
It also stated that the CDC “had inconsistent and flawed messaging about the effectiveness of masks,” “consistently overstated the risk of COVID-19 to children,” and still “continues to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans ages six months and older, which has made the United States a global outlier in COVID-19 policy.”
This House report was a great start toward accountability,” said Jeff Childers on his Coffee and Covid Substack. “Having documents like this is important, because they can be cited as official findings. For example, a court is much more likely to seriously consider something from a House Oversight Report than something some lawyer says. We’re getting there.”
But according to Dr. Robert Malone, Rep. Rodgers’s report received no coverage by the corporate media except for the New York Post on Oct 23. The Post quickly points out that the HHS shelled out $911,174,285 to a behavior change research and strategy firm Fors Marsh for a multimedia advertising campaign between August 2020 and June 2023.
Malone then reported that these taxpayer dollars were used to conduct a PsyWar campaign: You Paid ~1B$ for this COVID PsyWar Campaign
The report documents that what Fors Marsh Group delivered to HHS for the $991 million in taxpayer dollars it received was to deploy a massive Psychological Warfare campaign on American Citizens, one which employed a wide range of proven disinformation.
Childers described the government’s contract with the Fors Marsh Group in the following way:
In fall 2020, the bureaucratic behemoth that is HHS was well along in swinging its monstrous apparatus of government over the heads of every citizen in the country. Instead of doing its own work, the government’s vast army of overpaid health bureaucrats outsourced critical public health communications to a “full-service behavior-change research” firm.
Not a science firm. Not a health firm. A “behavior-change research” firm. The firm’s name, which should become as much a hissing and a byword as the names “Mengele” or “Benedict Arnold,” is the Fors Marsh Group.
As the report’s introduction explains, for its “behavior change” services, HHS ultimately paid FMG over nine hundred million dollars. Stop and think about that for a second. The U.S. government paid nearly a billion dollars to one company to manipulate citizens into becoming more compliant to the government.
But … but … it was all meant for good, right? I mean, sure, we can quibble about the ethics of psychological manipulation and “nudging” and stuff, but those decisions were made during a pandemic, amidst a public health emergency, when lives were at stake. But the important thing is their hearts were in the right place. Right?
Maybe not. Maybe it was much simpler than it looks. What advanced techniques did FMG use to make the American public more compliant? What cutting-edge science did FORS bring to the HHS table, to earn their billion-dollar fee? Was it a blend of innovative AI and pioneering psychology?
Nope. They just lied. They lied, and they exaggerated stuff, to terrify people. Their lies were so bloody awful and so preposterous that nobody would have ever listened to them — except that they put the full weight and credit of the United States government behind their lies and fearmongering to make the whole grotesque scheme work. In doing so, they consumed every drop of historic trust earned by previous generations of hard-working public servants.
Dr. Malone reported on the CDC’s coverups during Rep. Rodgers’s probe:
As the House panel probed the campaign, the CDC began to “edit and erase” many of the video ads from its YouTube channel, the report noted.
None remain available to the public — and most used scaremongering to browbeat the unvaccinated into believing that taking the shot was the only way to return to pre-pandemic norms.
The November 7, 2023, issue of ICWA Weekly News covered Sharyl Attkisson’s reporting on Rodgers’s frustration with the CDC during her investigation:
Sharyl Attkisson reported last week that Eastern Washington Congressional Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Fifth District, Republican) sent a letter to CDC Director Mandy Cohen on behalf of Health and Oversight Republicans, demanding data and documents to address reporting inaccuracies of COVID-19 deaths in children.
As the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees subcommittees looking into pandemic responses, Rodgers said that inaccurate CDC data exaggerating COVID-19 deaths in children may have led to bad policy decisions, such as mask mandates and school closures that hurt kids more than the COVID-19 disease.
The background information provided in the Attkisson story shows the CDC’s lack of accuracy and integrity in their data reporting:
The CDC has provided the House Energy and Commerce Committee with inconsistent data regarding deaths in children ages 0-17 due to Covid.
On August 7, 2023, CDC told the Committee that 2,292 children had died of Covid-19 based on Covid tracker data—no longer used since the end of the Covid public health emergency in May.
In response to a follow up question regarding the number of child deaths were in the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), the CDC replied that 1,696 children have died from Covid-19 in a timeframe that was two months longer.
The NVSS data based on death certificates is considered by CDC to be more authoritative.
Overcounting child deaths by at least 35 percent is a massive discrepancy in reporting.
So, what exactly is this Fors Marsh Group (FMG) that carried this nearly one billion dollar PsyWar campaign for HHS? Dr. Malone describes them in the following way:
With offices located at 4250 Fairfax Drive, 22201, Arlington Virginia, Fors Marsh is a certified B Corp that “conducts and implements research to solve complex challenges for public and private sector clients” by exploiting its core competencies in “market research, advertising, program evaluation, training, and customer experience solutions.”
For those unfamiliar with DC slang, “Beltway Bandit” refers to a consulting or research company that mostly works for US government departments or agencies, often specializing in defense, technology, or other areas. The term may also be used more broadly to describe any private business or political entity that operates inside the Beltway, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. For those familiar with the term “public-private partnerships” or PPP, this type of business relationship is at the core of the Fors Marsh business model.
Malone highlights quotes from the report for us:
In August 2020, as Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was in the final stages of vaccine trials, the HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA) initiated a COVID-19 public education campaign called the “We Can Do This” Campaign to shape the public’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccine uptake, masking, social distancing and booster vaccine uptake. To execute this Campaign, ASPA awarded three task orders to FMG through the “Public Information and Communication Services II” (PICS II) contract vehicle. While ASPA initiated the Campaign, FMG adhered to COVID-19-related guidance and recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when developing content for the Campaign. An in-depth discussion of the Campaign’s launch, as well as its outreach and engagement strategies can be found in the Appendix.
Based on reports shared with the Committee, FMG spent on average over $20 million per month for the design and execution of the Campaign. In its proposal for the task order, the company asserted that it could benefit ASPA by using a strategic mix of paid and earned media with exclusive radio partnerships, research-based messaging, and reinforced messaging from trusted influencers, celebrities, and sports figures. FMG’s Campaign strategies were grounded in several theories of behavior change and communication, “with the expectation that exposure to Campaign messages prompts change in cognitions antecedent to Campaign-targeted behavior.” The health belief model, used by the Campaign, posits that “a person’s belief in a personal threat of an illness or disease together with a person’s belief in the effectiveness of the recommended health behavior or action will predict the likelihood the person will adopt the behavior.”
Dr. Malone reflects on the report to this point:
This last statement is a euphemism for Psychological Bioterrorism being used to train and shape Citizen behavior in ways sought by US Government bureaucrats, much like Pavlov training dogs to respond to a bell. HHS Paid Fors Marsh almost a billion taxpayer dollars to deploy and practice Psychological Bioterrorism on US Citizens for years. Let that sink in for a moment.
The report findings continued to emphasize the breadth of the FMG contract used to psychologically manipulate the public.
Utilizing protocols and practices from prior FDA and CDC-led public health campaigns for tobacco prevention and control, FMG and its partners created ads and designed outreach strategies that specifically targeted different demographic groups and population segments. In short, FMG planned to use CDC guidance, recommendations, and internal scientific research to create advertising material to convince the American people that COVID-19 posed a sufficient threat to them or their loved ones and that they should follow the government’s recommendations and mandates. To be credible, the underlying HHS and CDC scientific recommendations and guidance needed to be effective at reducing the risk of COVID-19. Moreover, HHS and CDC needed to themselves remain credible communicators to the public.
Childers wrote the following about FMG:
FMG’s plan wasn’t innovative. It wasn’t cutting edge. A child could have done it. They’re morons. They just lied, and they leaned on Americans’ trust in government to sell their simplistic lies. And the bureaucrats running the health agencies and the country’s liberal health professionals all compliantly went right along with it all, facilitating the lies at every step.
Lies are unethical and Liars are bad people. Even, or especially, public health liars. FMG’s whole stupid program was unethical to the core.
It was also overhyped nonsense. For example, FMG’s initial proposal to HHS was founded on a single “theory” they called the “Health Belief Model.” Here’s how they dressed their so-called Health Belief Model up in fancy, academic-sounding language:
That’s not innovative, creative, cutting-edge, or even smart. All that Model says is, if you scare people by saying they’ll die, and don’t give them time to think, they’re likely to do whatever you say, especially if they already trust the person telling them what to do:
Of course, afterwards, once they figure out they’ve been had, people won’t trust the “influencers, celebrities, and sports figures” anymore, but who cares? FMG will already be rich by then.
In other words, the plan was to coerce or bribe top government officials, doctors, pastors, priests, social media stars, bloggers, vloggers, Hollywood celebrities, singers, football players, and tennis stars into lying for them. The House report included the scripts FMG prepared for actors who pretended to be covid victims.
For Childers, this propaganda campaign was not a huge surprise. In his October 28 writeup, he gave his opinion based on his deeper knowledge of policies related to health freedom - specifically related the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act that he is trying to undo in the courts:
I’ve learned a lot prosecuting our lawsuit against PREP. For one, I learned that the government’s covid program felt new but wasn’t actually entirely new. Fifty years ago it did something very similar during the swine flu vaccine campaign of 1976. The government unleashed a coercive, fear-based advertising campaign with the goal of vaccinating 80% of Americans. Unfortunately for the government, the campaign screeched to an abrupt halt after a bunch of folks were injured by Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Famously, Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes broke the failed vaccine story, and the government’s jab program rapidly collapsed in disgrace. Wallace harshly criticized the CDC and exposed government officials who pushed the swine flu jabs while minimizing the risks. At the time, CBS’s swine flu story was hailed as courageous investigative journalism and it cemented 60 Minutes’ place in history.
Thousands of vaccine-injured Americans filed lawsuits against swine vaccine manufacturers (mainly Merck and Wyeth Labs, which was later acquired by Pfizer). The U.S. Government had indemnified the vaccine makers, so taxpayers wound up footing most of the butcher’s bill, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (in 1976 dollars).
Now you see why they made sure it couldn’t happen that same way again. They needed to get to 80% jabbed without getting derailed by a few whiners and complainers, and they needed to shield reluctant vaccine makers better than in 1976. So, in 2020, I believe they intentionally planned to conceal vaccine injuries by tightly controlling the media, to avoid another 60 Minutes-style exposé. Once the media —including social media— was securely in the government’s grip, it carefully managed our cognitive ‘permission structures’ until the jabs surpassed the targeted 80% threshold.
In other words, they strangled America’s free speech to avoid an abortive covid vaccine failure like what happened to swine vaccine in 1976.
So, where does our U.S. Government go from here after the release of this hypercritical report? The Committee report made the following recommendations, and we include them in full. <Dr. Malone’s added comments are highlighted at the end of each recommendation>. We wish they were stronger than recommendations…
Congress should consider formally authorizing the CDC and clearly define the agency’s core mission. The CDC, unlike other major agencies, has never received full Congressional authorization. There is no single enabling statute that defines the agency’s overall mission and structure. The lack of authorization has blurred the lines on the agency’s responsibilities to lead on issues related to communicable disease, resulted in rampant mission creep, and has led many to question whether the CDC is able to execute on its primary mission of detecting and combatting public health threats, as evidenced by the CDC’s botched handling of the COVID-19 response. Congressional authorization should outline the agency’s core mission, delineate roles and responsibilities, and reevaluate its involvement in broad prevention initiatives outside the scope of the agency’s core mission, such as climate initiatives, as well as duplicative programs addressed by other agencies both inside and outside HHS. Congress should also consider whether to separate the CDC’s public health functions from its chronic disease research activities. <Who knew that the CDC was not formally authorized by Congress? This reeks of administrative state mission creep, of precisely the type addressed by the Supreme Court in the recent “Chevron Precedent” decision. If Congress did not authorize it, then who did? Well, I have a different take on this. Let’s take a shovel to this snake. As well as the Department of Education. Those two simple steps would take care of all sorts of different problems relating to what happened during the COVID crisis.>
HHS and its agencies should abide by the FDA’s product labeling guidelines. HHS and its agencies should be barred from promoting information regarding an FDA-regulated product that does not reflect the FDA-approved label. FDA product labels are authorized or approved only after extensive review and play a major role in the presentation of safety and effectiveness information. Public health messaging by all HHS departments must abide by the product labeling guidelines and be barred from promoting messages that go beyond, or otherwise conflict with, the approved or authorized label for a vaccine, drug, or related product. In December of 2020, when the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine received EUA to be distributed in the U.S., the FDA press release explicitly stated “[a]t this time, data are not available to make a determination about how long the vaccine will provide protection, nor is there evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from person to person.” Despite this disclosure, high ranking federal officials, including President Biden, knowingly made unsubstantiated claims about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines. These declarations continued even after breakthrough infections began to occur. The “pandemic of the unvaccinated” motto was divisive and extremely damaging, as it led the public to believe unvaccinated individuals were the cause of continued viral transmission, when that simply was not true. A study published in October of 2021 by the University of California, Davis, found no significant difference in viral loads between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, which signaled COVID-19 vaccines did not prevent infection nor transmission. Moreover, the CDC enforced life-altering mandates on the public based on unsubstantiated claims. CDC and other federal officials must be held to the same standards as companies when it comes to promoting message about FDA authorized or approved products.
Congress should consider clarifying responsibility for evaluating the safety of vaccines and streamline existing reporting systems for capturing vaccine injuries and adverse reactions. There continues to be concerns over the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, including the risk of myocarditis and blood clots. The CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database is a passive surveillance system that does not establish a causal relationship between vaccine administration and the adverse event. VAERS reporting of COVID-19 vaccine injuries proved highly controversial. The FDA also monitors the safety of approved products through the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), MedWatch, and the Sentinel Initiative. When compared to VAERS, the FDA’s adverse events reporting systems appears to offer a more robust method of capturing adverse events that relies on both active and passive surveillance. Streamlining adverse events surveillance would avoid duplication and provide clear, reliable guidance on the emergence of vaccine and other related adverse events. HHS and its agencies should embrace a culture of transparency and accountability. There has been a growing body of evidence on the societal damage resulting from CDC-imposed mask and travel mandates, social distancing requirements, school closure guidance, and vaccine recommendations. In addition, the data supporting the benefits of such policies has been lacking throughout the pandemic and afterwards. Through the course of the pandemic and in the aftermath, one thing has become clear: the CDC did not operate in a culture of transparency. This must change. The agency must embrace transparency and be willing to admit what it does and does not know. The CDC must communicate clearly and honestly when its recommendations have been proven and when they are based on untested hypotheses. Instead of promulgating policy to inform the science, the agency must allow the science to promulgate the policy. To this end, the agency should establish procedures for conferring with public health bodies from local, state, and foreign governments and be willing to modify its policies based on emerging science and best practices recommended by outside experts at home and abroad.
As outlined in H.R.4529, the Public Health Guidance Transparency and Accountability Act of 2023, the CDC Director should be required to develop, establish, and maintain good guidance practices. These guidance documents must include public participation and be non-binding on the public and government. The agency should routinely update these best practices.The CDC and federal public health officials should not attempt to silence dissenting scientific opinions. Congress should safeguard medical and scientific debate from attempted suppression during public health emergencies, and consider appropriate legislation consistent with the First Amendment. <And those whose reputations, careers, and peace of mind have been ground into the mud by these government-sponsored activities should be compensated for the damages done>
HHS and its agencies should overhaul their website archival process to mimic that of prior White House administrations. Throughout the writing of this report, the CDC continued to edit and erase website content unannounced. The agency’s lack of notice to changes in its record keeping and poor archival process made it nearly impossible to track down former agency actions. While parts of CDC’s former COVID-19 health guidance have been preserved on its COVID-19 Museum Timeline—albeit the more favorable parts of such guidance—the CDC has also entirely erased and replaced unscientific guidance, blatant errors, and unfavorable press releases. During the writing of this report, HHS abruptly restricted public access to view its Campaign content that was previously widely available on YouTube. These videos are no longer accessible to the public. Such editing and erasing of guidance and web content on its government-controlled website, and making taxpayer funded Campaign videos inaccessible is unacceptable, particularly considering the historic and life-altering nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. HHS must ensure proper record-keeping of its website content that comports with the same archival process as prior White House administrations. <In other words, they should stop covering up their guilt and misdeeds by hiding the evidence>
No matter where the government goes from here, the following assessment by Dr. Malone might best reflect the current state of affairs:
To recap, this new report from the House Energy and Commerce Committee covers one aspect of a massive, unprecedented PsyWar campaign, funded by a combination of taxpayer and pharma/NGO dollars, which was waged against US Citizens, and was deployed as a “Whole of Government” campaign predominantly by the Biden/Harris administration. Examples of other aspects of this federal government-wide disinformation campaign include the role of the “intelligence community” and Department of Homeland Security (particularly as coordinated by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)). Many aspects of this campaign remain undisclosed or hidden in redactions to Freedom of Information requests. Still, their shadowy presence can be inferred from the documents often called “The Twitter Files” and “The Facebook Files.”
There is hope that some of these recommendations will be put into effect, what with the rumblings that a certain former presidential candidate might be appointed to head HHS. We take some satisfaction that publications like MedPageToday are even running serious articles on the topic.
Could RFK Jr. Really Become HHS Secretary? (MedPage Today)
Firing of Clallam Bay Corrections Center Sergeant Reflects COVID-19 Shot Mandate Abuse
Even though no evidence has existed that the COVID-19 shots prevent transmission of the disease, 1,900 of Washington’s 63,291 employees were fired or quit because of Governor Jay Inslee’s shot mandates. On the law enforcement side, 127 state patrol employees were terminated.
But little attention has been given to the state prison guards. For example, according to a correctional sergeant at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) who wanted to remain anonymous in this interview, eighty (80) employees at the facility were fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 shots or they took an early retirement. This correctional sergeant was one of ten who returned after the governor’s mandate was lifted.
He had first learned about Inslee’s mandate on the news. He then received a formal notice that he needed to get the COVID-19 jabs by October 18, 2021. And so, he submitted a medical and religious exemption.
He was one of many state employees who had submitted a religious exemption.
One such state employee had immigrated from Russia sixteen years ago, where her mother, during the years of the U.S.S.R, was in a similar situation in which she was also mandated to receive vaccines as a condition for employment. She wrote to the Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM), the department tasked with levying a shot mandate on workers, that she had never imagined she would be asked to take such a risk to maintain employment as her mother had to in the U.S.S.R. Her religious exemption was granted so long as she exclusively teleworked from home. She could be on site of her work facility only during off hours (6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) or on a Saturday or Sunday. If she needed to pick up or drop off any work products, documents, or files, she had to coordinate with her supervisor for an adjustment of her scheduled work hours so that she could drop off or pick up the necessary items during off hours.
Another Washington government employee applied for a religious exemption. In her case, human resources decided that because they could not make the proper accommodations and that it would be an undue hardship on the organization, so she was fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 shot. Even though she worked in a basement which had its own private entrance and she was not interacting in person with her fellow employees.
As for the officer at the CBCC, his religious exemption was approved, but—to accommodate others—he was transferred to another position. He refused to take the new position and left his job. Two months later, he forced the issue by demanding that he be given his old job back. Over time, however, he received two demotions, one in February and another in April. When the governor lifted the vaccine mandate in May of 2023, the correctional sergeant was told that he and other officers could reapply for their old jobs.
As this was going on, the correctional sergeant had learned about a settlement with a Washington Corrections Center employee in Shelton, who had filed a grievance on his own. Eventually, the arbitrator had given him his job back. The CBCC sergeant asked the union for a copy of the grievance so that he could use it for his own case, but they refused to give it to him. “The union was totally against us,” he said.
Other state employees have shared the same sentiment. One employee who started working for the government early in the pandemic said that she never heard from the union about voting on the contract that was negotiated with the Office of Financial management and that included the mandatory vaccination criteria. She had been allowed a religious exemption for the COVID-19 jab. Another union member says she was never informed about the COVID-19 shot requirement in the 2023-2025 contract. She had ended up with heart issues from the Johnson & Johnson shot, but the doctors refused to acknowledge this.
Your ICWA journalism team has higher hopes that all employees fired, threatened and otherwise harassed in WA state will be adequately compensated soon. Employers in New York state were already told in 2022 to rehire workers since the vaccine didn’t stop transmission, and they were granted backpay.
Silent Majority Foundation Fights for Alison Westover
Alison Westover (AKA Alison Morrow) served as an environmental reporter for KING 5 in Seattle, where she worked from 2013 until 2019, winning two Emmy awards during her tenure. But, as Bernadette Pajer said during the second half of the June 24, 2022, episode of Informed Life Radio on CHD-TV, Alison left KING 5 and became an independent journalist “In order to do the stories she wanted to do honestly without the censorship.”
ICWA members have come across Alison’s journalism work over the last few years. In just one example, Alison was one of four journalists present during a May 5, 2023, media briefing by the Washington Department of Health (DOH) in its efforts to continue marketing COVID-19 shots.
Gathering information for her news broadcasts, she asked about COVID-19 mandates for employees, to which Lacy Fehrenbach answered, “COVID-19 remains a workplace hazard, so employers may still be able to do the shot mandates, and we will try to support them with that.”
Unfortunately, this highly controlled media event did not allow Alison to ask a follow-up question, such as, “Since shots actually do not prevent transmission how, exactly, do they improve workplace safety?”
The State of Washington’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hired Alison as a communications specialist with full knowledge of her existing YouTube channel and independent journalistic work. Her employer even encouraged this independent work until Alison covered Dr. Kheriaty and his opinions on COVID-19 on September 26, 2021.
Fortunately, for Alison and us medical freedom lovers, Silent Majority Foundation (SMF) has taken up her cause.
On October 14, The Silent Majority Foundation filed a lawsuit against DNR and executive level DNR employees, on behalf of Alison for her wrongful termination.
The complaint explains that after Dr. Kheriaty’s appearance on Alison’s YouTube channel, DNR leadership told Alison if she continued with the interviews, they would fire her. Alison explained that she believed that her First Amendment rights protected her continuation of the work. She also noted that the YouTube channel was created in her personal time, with her personal equipment. Alison refused to comply with DNR’s demand that she cease production.
Alison states her stance on the First Amendment to SMF:
The 1st Amendment is one of the most sacred rights of Americans. It is what differentiates our country from most others, that we have the freedom to question our government. It is also central to a free press. I was willing to lose my job - and all that it provided for our family - in order to stand up against the encroaching erosion of this right that I was witnessing at the time, not just in my case but in thousands of others across the country during the pandemic," Alison said. "There was no way to do science, or journalism, in the culture of censorship that was driven by our government at the time. That meant millions of people made decisions without informed consent. Given my commitment to seeking truth wherever it leads, I was unwilling to acquiesce to a demand that I remain silent.
SMF summarizes the case as:
The Department of Natural Resources violated Alison’s constitutional rights by failing to provide her due process regarding her termination (Fourteenth Amendment). Further, the DNR violated Alison’s First Amendment rights to free speech, association and press.
Despite de-platforming of other organizations like The Highwire and Children’s Health Defense, Alison’s channel is still active on YouTube, but she no longer live streams there, she only uploads clips. For her full uncensored livestreams, check out her Locals, Rofkin, or Rumble channel.
If you want to help Alison defend her free speech rights, head over to her GiveSendGo page.
Speaking of video: TUNE IN LIVE! Alison Westover Interview with Pete Serrano.
In another side story: We no longer post to the ICWA YouTube channel because each new post is flagged, challenged or deleted and we tire of defending them against the internal YouTube police. Instead, we post all video content to our Rumble channel.
Latest Fluoride Report Not Part of DOH Emergency Update Plan for Drinking Water
Last week, the Washington State Board of Health (BOH) announced that it would be working with the Department of Health (DOH) on an emergency update to chapter 246-290 WAC titled Group A Public Water Supplies. We were excited to see the water supply rules being changed given the recent scientific study release and news around water fluoridation. Could it be . . .
But alas, no. This emergency update is only in regards to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. And while we’re quite glad for this attention to very toxic substances, when will fluoride be addressed?
The release from the BOH says, “These rules help keep drinking water safe.” The updated rules go into effect June 24, 2024, and will stay in place for 120 days.
This change ensures that federal maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) replace state action levels (SALs) when the MCLs are effective, not when they are adopted. This is necessary because the effective date for new federal MCLs is not until 2029, but the adoption date is June 25, 2024. The rule change ensures current protections for the public stay in place until the effective date.
This is the second emergency filing, following the initial filing of June 24, 2024. The Board is investigating a long-term solution while this emergency rule is in effect.
The above link mentions that the issue has come down from the EPA concerning PFAS in our state’s drinking water supply:
The Board will also consider adopting new SALs for PFAS based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new science, in addition to other changes. The Board will conduct an environmental justice assessment, small business economic impact statement, and a significant analysis to review the potential changes. These analyses will inform their decision-making.
As understandable as it is to remove the PFAS from the public water supply, the BOH made no mention of the fluoride in Washington’s drinking water. Fluoridation, like vaccination, has decades of false marketing ingrained in public health that will take time and effort to overcome.
In the Substack comments following the last issue of ICWA Weekly News, a reader asked the following question:
“Do we know why Washington State does not participate in the My Water’s Fluoride national data reporting program run by the CDC?”
Maybe the DOH can tell us why they don’t participate in reporting fluoridation data by city to the CDC like the majority of states.
The CDC does estimate state water fluoridation by looking at the populations in fluoridated water utility service areas.
Biennially, CDC summarizes Water Fluoridation Reporting System data into National Water Fluoridation Statistics. The statistics include the estimated proportion of the U.S. population receiving fluoridated water, and the estimated proportion of people on community water systems that receive fluoridated water, both nationally and in each state.
As it turns out. Washington ranks thirty-fourth in the nation for percentage of the population being served fluoridated water. For the population of the United States, the percentage is 72.3. For Washington, the percentage is 64.4.
Notice of correction to last week’s fluoride article. Thanks to Dr. Osmunson and another astute reader (you know who you are) who quickly noticed something was wrong:
Bill Osmunson, who has been attending BOH meetings for fourteen years to get them to address the state’s water fluoridation issues, wrote to ICWA to correct his quote from the last issue of ICWA Weekly News, in which he said, “Mother's milk is about 175 times higher in fluoride concentration than formula made with fluoridated water.”
Bill corrected himself in the letter by saying, “Fluoridated water has 175 times more fluoride concentration than mother's milk.”
Meme of the day: A Hobbit reference. Bonus points if you can guess the side of the meme that represents the work of the behavior consulting group Fors Marsh.
Thanks for another fantastic article!