[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: [Ruah] what's happening in the US

Fri Feb 7 13:20:00 PST 2025

AMEN (even without Dean's artistic talents) to all of you. I pray that
wisdom and compassion may possibly prevail.
With HOPE
Mary

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

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> On Feb 7, 2025, at 12:40 PM, Catherine Walther <
> catherine.walther at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes May God bless us all, especially our American relatives and friends.
> And may we all have the strength and courage to stand up against this
> tyrant. Catherine.
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> When life wins there will be no losers. A'Ida Shibli
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> On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM Dean Riley <riley234 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you for this Catherine. This is an amazing & frightening summary!
>> And there doesn’t seem to be any end of it in sight. In fact it’s only
>> likely to get much worse.
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>> May God be with us… 🙏🏼
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>> Dean.
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>> On Feb 6, 2025, at 2:15 PM, Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <
>> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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>> From: Catherine Walther via groups.io <catherine.walther=
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>> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 13:13
>> Subject: [Ruah] what's happening in the US
>> To: CNWE group <CNWE at googlegroups.com>, Ruah Group <Ruah at groups.io>,
>> Taproot Group <taprootcan at googlegroups.com>
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>> An American doctor friend wrote this:
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>> A couple readers have specifically asked me not to bring up politics in
>> my writing. They just want “uplifting” stuff to continue. I aim to keep
>> that tone when I can, but the disemboweling of American public health
>> institutions, formerly considered among the finest in the world despite
>> imperfections, compels a reactionary tone. As a family doctor who cares
>> about prevention and community health, it would be cowardly to look the
>> other way, or even worse, to normalize the many blatant assertions of
>> centralized power and agenda over distributed truth and expertise. A few
>> examples from just the past week:
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>> Communication Freeze: Federal health agencies, including the CDC, FDA,
>> and NIH, were ordered to halt all external communications, including
>> scientific reports, website updates, and health advisories. This included
>> suspending the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and other
>> public health updates. Public domain Vaccine Information Sheets we use
>> everyday in primary care to counsel patients have vanished —instead we get
>> a “Page you’re looking for was not found” error message. Some critical
>> information about the H5N1 outbreak has simply been deleted.
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>> Research and Meetings Canceled: Scientific meetings and grant review
>> panels were abruptly canceled, delaying critical research on issues like
>> the bird flu outbreak. NIH travel and training workshops were also
>> suspended. Not traveling affects scientists’ ability to present their work.
>> The NIH Clinical Center can no longer recruit patients into clinical trials
>> because of cancelled meetings and silenced information on clinical trials.
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>> Approval Restrictions: All public materials, including regulations, press
>> releases, and social media posts, now require approval from a political
>> appointee before dissemination.
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>> Work with WHO Halted: Federal health agencies were directed to stop
>> collaborations with the World Health Organization (WHO), following an
>> executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the organization. Apropos to the
>> moment, the WHO's international meeting on bird flu will lack CDC
>> representatives, potentially limiting America's ability to access crucial
>> global data on the virus's evolution and spread, which could hamper efforts
>> to prevent human infections and develop treatments.
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>> Hiring Freeze: A government-wide hiring freeze was imposed, with job ads
>> rescinded and offers pulled at agencies like NIH.
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>> In-Person Work Mandate: Federal health workers were required to return to
>> in-person work, exacerbating workforce shortages.
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>> Global Gag Rule Reinstated: The administration reinstated restrictions on
>> funding for international reproductive health services.
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>> RFK Junior for Secretary of HHS: It’s such a waste of time to even
>> consider these sorts of nominees, chosen for their lack of qualifications
>> plus agendas that are antithetical to the missions of the institutions they
>> will mislead. But focusing on vaccines at least, Kennedy claimed to support
>> vaccines during the confirmation hearings, contradicting his incredibly
>> long and well-documented history of promoting vaccine misinformation,
>> including debunked claims linking vaccines to autism. Senators highlighted
>> his past statements and actions, such as his nonprofit selling anti-vaccine
>> merchandise, the millions of dollars he personally makes from
>> anti-vaccination organizations and lawsuits, all of which raise doubts
>> about his sincerity to say the least.
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>> Any one of these items is not OK. None of it is normal.
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>> It’s not “disruption” in any kind of potentially positive, constructive
>> way. It’s just destruction for the sole purpose of centralizing power in
>> our information networks at the expense of truth, real time public health
>> surveillance, and open communication.
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>> It’s not going to all be OK… but you won’t know it’s not OK unless you
>> keep reading the words of those with actual expertise, the decentralized
>> network of scientifically informed truth that’s now being forced into a
>> reluctant Resistance. This further calcifies the notion of politics in
>> science, and further coalesces a tribe against public health, even as we
>> try to defend it with evidence, data, and truth. Communication.
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>> We can only hope for some luck, some bravery, some awakening.
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>> Some regret.
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