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  1. Seattle Statement on Glyphosate and Public Health

    This statement was finalized and adopted at the Seattle Glyphosate Symposium, which took place 25-26 March, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. The statement’s authors are listed below.

    Glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide (plant killer) typically marketed as Roundup, is the world’s most widely used pesticide. The diversity and magnitude of glyphosate uses in agriculture, in forestry and in industrial, commercial, residential and municipal settings have grown dramatically since first approval in 1974. 

    Humans are exposed to glyphosate through direct spraying and other skin contact, through occupational or residential proximity to sprayed areas, through exposure to dust and through consumption of food and water contaminated with glyphosate residues. Food is the main route of exposure for most people while occupational exposures are typically the highest.

    National and international biomonitoring surveys detect glyphosate in samples collected from 70-80% of all people examined, including children.

    Glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) harm human health and can cause cancer. The comprehensive evidence supports this conclusion, with the strongest epidemiological evidence linking exposure to increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system.

    There is additional evidence from human and/or animal studies that glyphosate and GBHs increase the risk of multiple adverse health effects in addition to cancer, including diseases of the kidney and liver, and impacts to the reproductive, endocrine, neurological, and other metabolic systems. Children, infants and fetuses are the most susceptible. 

    Further strong evidence finds that glyphosate and GBHs cause genetic damage, oxidative stress, and hormonal disruption — biological changes that can set disease in motion. Our understanding of glyphosate’s ability to cause these changes has developed from multiple lines of evidence in animal, human and in vitro studies.

    Additional research is needed to better understand the full extent of glyphosate’s and GBH’s effects on human health and the underlying mechanisms involved, such as epigenetic alterations, microbiome disruption and endocrine effects. 

    The evidence that glyphosate and GBHs harm human health at levels of current use is now so strong that no additional delays in regulation of glyphosate can be justified. Regulatory agencies in countries around the world should treat glyphosate and GBHs as hazardous, as some countries have started to do. Agencies should act without further delay to limit their use, or eliminate them if legally required, to protect public health. 

    Preventive measures to reduce human exposures while handling and applying glyphosate are accessible, proven effective, and inexpensive. These actions should be implemented without delay while research continues.

    Safeguards must be implemented to ensure that any reduction in glyphosate use does not result in regrettable increases in the use of other equally or more harmful pesticides, for example paraquat. 

    Glyphosate is not the only pesticide that has been inadequately evaluated or regulated. The approval processes globally for all existing and new pesticides are weak and fail to protect human health, especially the health of infants and children. This system needs to be fundamentally revised. Regulatory agencies need to make pesticide approval decisions based on a more comprehensive and unbiased suite of health effects data. If pesticide use is approved, these agencies must closely monitor use, exposure data and harmful outcomes, especially for susceptible and highly exposed groups. The costs of obtaining such data must be borne by the pesticide industry, but the testing must be conducted by laboratories and organizations independent of the pesticide industry and free from financial conflicts of interest (COI), defined as funding from industries and trade associations that have a financial stake in the outcome.

    Risk-assessment methods and processes used to evaluate pesticides must be updated to use best-available science, including: using transparent, consistent and unbiased approaches to evaluate all the evidence; accounting for human variability and susceptible populations such as fetuses, infants and children, and highly exposed populations such as farmworkers; accounting for cumulative exposures and risks for pesticides that contribute to common adverse health outcomes; and identifying adverse health effects and risks at all exposure levels. This is clearly not the case now.

    All scientific evidence used in pesticide evaluations must be publicly available, not labeled proprietary or restricted to active ingredients, and must comply with laws protecting human subjects in research. Financial COI, which do not include government funding, must be addressed throughout the research and regulatory processes, including accounting for bias from industry-funded studies, and ensuring that individuals with financial COI are barred from participating in scientific advisory panels and other bodies that formally review scientific data.

    Ultimately, pesticide use must be reduced overall, and eliminated to the extent possible. This is consistent with the United Nations Global Biodiversity Framework global target to reduce pesticide risks by 50% by 2030 relative to 2010–2020 and replace pesticides with safer, more sustainable pest control systems that rely more on prevention than treatment. This is imperative for the health of humans, ecosystems and future generations.

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    Signed by (Affiliations noted for identification purposes only)

    Lianne Sheppard, PhD
    University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    Nathan Donley, PhD
    Center for Biological Diversity, Olympia, Washington

    Cynthia Curl, MS, PhD
    School of Public and Population Health, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho

    Luoping Zhang, PhD, MS
    School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California

    Rashmi Joglekar, PhD
    Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

    Dr. Kurt Straif, MD, PhD
    Boston College, Massachusetts, and ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain

    Audrey E. Tran Lam, MPH
    Center for Energy & Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa

    Dr. Lee A. Evslin, MD, FAAP
    Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Kapaa, Hawaii

    Alice Livingston-Ortolani, PhD
    University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Brenda Eskenazi, PhD
    School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California

    Peter Clausing, PhD
    Pesticide Action Network, Germany

    Maryse F. Bouchard, PhD
    Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montréal, Canada

    Robin Mesnage, PhD
    King’s College London, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Germany

    Naomi Oreskes, PhD
    Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Grant Hopkins
    University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    Robert Gunier, PhD
    School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California

    Naila Khalil, MBBS, MPH, PhD
    Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

    Amanda Claire Starbuck, MA
    Food & Water Watch, Longmont, Colorado

    Johann Zaller, PhD
    BOKU University, Institute of Zoology, Vienna, Austria

    Dr. Janet Perlman, MD, MPH, FAAP
    University of California at San Francisco, Berkeley, California

    Dr. Eve Shapiro, MD, MPH
    Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Tucson, Arizona

    Dr. Dianne Glover, MD
    Providence/Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

    Sun-Young Kim, PhD
    National Cancer Center of Korea, Goyang, Korea

    Muhammad Zahid, PhD, MPH
    College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

    Andrew Smith, PhD
    Chief Scientific Officer, Rodale Institute, Kutztown, Pennsylvania

    Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
    Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

    Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP
    Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts

    Christopher J. Portier, PhD
    Former Director, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Former Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Former Associate Director, National Toxicology Program, Thune, Switzerland

    Dr. Daniele Mandrioli, MD, PhD
    Secretary General, Collegium Ramazzini, Bologna, Italy

    Dr. Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH
    Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

    Charles Benbrook, PhD
    Benbrook Consulting Services, Lakeville, Maine

    Dr. Beate Ritz, MD, PhD, FSPH
    University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

    Alexandra Muñoz, MS, PhD
    Independent Toxicologist, Miami, Florida

    Anne Riederer, PhD
    University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    Jennifer Fung, PhD
    University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California

    Catherine Hong
    University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    Karie L. Knoke
    Benbrook Consulting Service, Sandpoint, Idaho

    Dr. Dennis D. Weisenburger, MD
    University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

    Alexander A. Kaurov, PhD
    Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Kelly Ryerson, MBA
    American Regeneration, Miami, Florida

    Yogi Hendlin, PhD
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Melinda Hemmelgarn, MS, RD
    Beyond Pesticides, Columbia, Missouri

    Kendra Klein, PhD
    Friends of the Earth, Washington D.C.

    Erik Millstone, PhD
    Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, England, United Kingdom

    Noreen Mucha, MPA
    Wisconsin Organics, Waukesha, Wisconsin

    Dr. Kambria Beck Holder, MD
    Family Physician, Kilauea, Hawaii

    Dr. Stephanie Blount, MD
    Pediatrician, West Palm Beach, Florida

    Carsten A. Brühl, PhD
    Technical University Kaiserslautern – Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Landau, Germany

    Dr. Ana M. Mora, MD, PhD
    School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California

    Dr. Michael W. Schwartz, MD
    Professor of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    #BigGovt #health #law #medicalScience #poison
  2. In March 2021, the FDA was warned that its VAERS analysis algorithm could hide or mask safety signals from the COVID shots. Rather than alerting the public, they covered it up

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    It is my recollection that danger signals from vax recipients showed up even sooner than early March 2021. Without doubt, the deeply sh*tty claim that the covid vax was ‘Safe & Effective’ was a blatant lie. Based on this and other lies, let alone hiding the VAERS data, the FDA and CDC and entire medical and pharmaceutical industry should not be trusted again until after there has been a very thorough cleaning up of all of these institutions. Covid and the covid vax is but a fraction of the entire USA institutional health problem. It’s all fixable and even fairly obvious, and some progress is being made, but there is still a very long way to go. At a bare minimum citizens should demand health freedom guarantees, so the bottom line at least rests with us and not some jackass on a schoolboard, government agency, doctor’s office or hospital. ABN

    #abn #BigGovt #BigMedia #BigMoney #BigPharma #crime #history #law #terrorism #treason
  3. Same Law Firm Harpole Uses AGAINST Candace Employs Ben Shapiro’s Brother-in-Law & Is OWNED By Trump DOJ Insider — Project Constitution

    BOMBSHELL: Same Law Firm Harpole Uses AGAINST Candace Employs Ben Shapiro’s Brother-in-Law & Is OWNED By Trump DOJ Insider!

    The rabbit hole just got a lot deeper. If you were wondering why Brian Harpole’s lawsuit against Candace Owens felt like a coordinated strike, the legal “family tree” behind it tells the whole story.

    1. The DOJ Connection: Brian Harpole’s lead attorney, Zachary Stoner, works for the Dhillon Law Group. The firm’s founder, Harmeet Dhillon, is currently serving as President Trump’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the DOJ. While she is officially on leave from the firm, her influence is everywhere—especially as she advocates for stricter “Anti-Semitism” speech laws that many fear will be used to silence journalists like Candace.

    2. The Daily Wire Connection: As Candace revealed tonight, this is the EXACT same law firm that represented The Daily Wire during their brutal, two-year arbitration battle against her. They know her, they’ve fought her before, and they are back for more.

    3. The “In-Law” Bombshell: This is where it gets personal. Dhillon Law Group didn’t just stop at representing the Daily Wire—they also hired Jacob Roth (

    @RothThePatriot). Who is he? An Orthodox Jewish attorney at Dhillon Law specializing in “civil rights.”

    The Shapiro Tie: He is Ben Shapiro’s brother-in-law, married to Ben’s sister, Abby Shapiro (

    @ClassicallyAbby).

    It looks like a classic ATTACK BY PROXY.

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    #BigGovt #censorship #law #mindControl #propaganda #psyop
  4. Health Freedom Defense Fund: ‘Your voice matters more than you can imagine’

    Leah Wilson just said the quiet part out loud:

    “Health freedom is the largest, strongest single issue voting bloc in America today.”

    “We are America’s new majority.”

    “We are independent from any party.”

    “And we are stronger than ever.”

    She declared that Bayer-Monsanto’s push for a pesticide liability shield is “exactly what happened in 1986 when Congress gave a liability shield to vaccine makers.”

    “It was a bad use of tort reform then, and it’s a bad use with pesticides today.”

    “So let the record show, just like we did in 2024, we’re gonna show up and decide the elections in 2026.”

    “Your voice matters more than you can imagine.”

    “And it’s about to matter even more in the 2026 midterm elections.”

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    #BigGovt #BigPharma #freedom #health #law #medicalScience #pragmatism
  5. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION of top COVID officials has officially begun

    CRIMINAL PROSECUTION of top COVID officials has officially begun.

    Fauci’s top advisor was the first domino.

    Criminal referral requests have already been filed against Anthony Fauci and other officials in SEVEN states — Accused of MURDER, TERRORISM, RACKETEERING, FRAUD, & more.

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    #antiAmerican #antiScience #BigGovt #fraud #law #supremacy
  6. Dubious Tyler Robinson hearing discussed

    On Friday, I attended Charlie Kirk’s case hearing. There’s a lot to unpack from what happened, and I break it all down in this episode with @danksterintel and @brandisiciliani I may be wrong, but my sense is that this case won’t make it to trial. I think a deal will be reached before proceedings even begin.

    The FBI has not produced certain evidence the defense requested. While they may technically have the right to withhold it at this stage, it raises questions. The FBI director has publicly stated that he wants this case to move quickly and smoothly and Erika has also emphasized the importance of a speedy trial. If that’s truly the goal, then why leave any opening for the defense to argue they don’t have the evidence they need and request a continuance? There were several things in this hearing that were conducted poorly.

    Full video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epviMLCHXew

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    Sixth Amendment of theConstitution of the United States

    In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

    It is important for everyone to understand that the right to speedy trial is Tyler Robinson’s right, not Erika’s. And this Sixth Amendment right of Tyler’s does not permit the prosecution to withhold evidence or speedily convict someone who looks to many like a patsy. ABN

    #BigGovt #crime #fraud #law
  7. The UFO Question and the Missing Physicists

    In a recent episode of the American Alchemy podcast, Jesse Michels facilitated a thought-provoking dialogue between mathematician Eric Weinstein and astrophysicist Dr. Eric W. Davis, focused on the complexities surrounding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Over a four-hour conversation, they delved into the conspicuous absence of theoretical physicists in UAP-related programs, despite the presence of engineers and material scientists with direct knowledge of alleged crash-retrieval efforts. Weinstein’s frustration with this absence highlights a critical gap in understanding the physics behind UAP capabilities, suggesting that the challenges posed by UAPs extend beyond engineering to fundamental physics. The discussion raises crucial questions about the structure of research and the compartmentalization of knowledge in defense-related projects.

    Weinstein’s analogy regarding the lack of physicists in UAP retrieval programs likens the situation to an orchestra missing its essential musicians, arguing that without the input of theoretical physicists, significant scientific advancements cannot be realized. Davis corroborates this notion by contrasting the disjointed nature of current retrieval efforts with the collaborative framework of the Manhattan Project, where various scientific disciplines worked cohesively towards a common goal. This point underscores a potential failure in the organization of UAP research, suggesting that a more integrated approach involving theoretical physics could be necessary to address the profound challenges posed by UAP phenomena.

    The conversation also touches on the historical context of the Manhattan Project, illustrating how compartmentalization was a deliberate design choice rather than a flaw. This historical analogy serves as a lens to examine contemporary UAP research, prompting speculation about whether a similar compartmentalization exists today—one that may exclude physicists by design. The Wilson-Davis memo suggests that access to sensitive programs is tightly controlled, hinting at layers of classification that might keep theoretical physics work hidden from the engineers working on the retrieval efforts. This raises concerns about the efficiency and effectiveness of current UAP research frameworks and whether the critical insights from theoretical physics are being deliberately isolated from practical engineering applications.

    Moreover, the discussion introduces the role of notable figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Robert Maxwell, who, through their connections to various scientific and governmental institutions, have been implicated in potentially surveilling or influencing the scientific discourse around advanced physics. Weinstein posits that Epstein may have had motives beyond finance, positioning himself at the intersection of theoretical physics and intelligence operations. This assertion, coupled with the exploration of the Department of Energy’s classification system, suggests that significant research related to UAPs may be occurring outside of public and even military scrutiny. The implication is that if physicists are indeed located in hidden layers of government or private institutions, the broader understanding of UAP technology and its implications remains obscured by both secrecy and a lack of interdisciplinary collaboration.

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    The above is an AI summary of a longer article at the link above. ABN

    #aliens #BigGovt #science #ufo
  8. White House finally breaks silence on 10 missing scientists… but leaves more questions to be answered

    The White House has broken their silence on the disturbing string of deaths and disappearances involving scientists with knowledge of America’s biggest secrets.

    During Wednesday’s briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked for the first time about the ten people linked to space or nuclear secrets who have mysteriously died or vanished without a trace since 2023.

    When asked if the Trump Administration was aware of the incidents and if the US intelligence community was already investigating whether they were connected, Leavitt did not have a definitive answer for reporters.

    Among the most prominent voices dissatisfied with the government’s response to the alleged national security threat has been Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett, who has claimed McCasland was deeply tied to the country’s secret UFO programs.

    Burchett previously told the Daily Mail he had been demanding answers regarding the search for the retired general and others, but had received no answers from the US intelligence community – including the so-called ‘alphabet agencies’ such as the FBI.

    ‘I’ve been constantly ran down different rabbit holes with them, so I don’t have any need to talk to them at all,’ the congressman said in March.

    ‘The numbers seem very high in these certain areas of research. I think we’d better be paying attention, and I don’t think we should trust our government.’

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    The linked article provides a decent overview of this weird phenomenon. ABN

    #aliens #BigGovt #military #science #ufo
  9. It's bizarre that young dude-bro Republicans are upset about chemicals in our food. They say food in the EU is much better, prepared using different recipes, with less additives.

    #USpol #USpolitics #OrangeFreak #GOPfreaks #FascistTakeover #GOPweirdos #Weird #RFK #Trump #DonOld #Kennedy #BobKennedy #FDA #Regulations #BigGovt #BigGovernment #marker

  10. @seasharp
    2/3… partners with #megaCorporates via #PPP (#PublicPrivatePartnerships) to provide #uselessJobs that wouldn't be feasible under normal market circumstances. We're forced to #invest in #corporations we hate because its a hedge against the #moneyPrinting/#inflation.

    The #corporatist doesn't pay tax. They claim *they are* the #publicGood and get #BigGovt funding to #virtueSignal to us.

    2/3
    @orekix @mlg