World Freedom

Blogger Comment: It was what Clinton, Obama, Biden and Democrat controlled US States allowed to be taught with religious freedom in our schools when in power and it is showing through now very clearly what the Democrat’s religious ideology is…divide and conquer…and believe me, those so-called student uprisinga all across the EU are in the vast majority Muslems and coming to America soon…its the hiden enemy brought to you through the courtesy of the Globalists so that they can destroy western civilization and then they are going to say, your government let you down big time…”but we can save you as the trojan horse” of these mass killers of humanity, with our One World Government (OWG)…all planned of course even though our western governments have let the people down…for they have stated this in Davos many times…wake up people what’s on the horizon, as the EU will not contain it and when it starts in the USA in earnest (it has already been planned) the USA wil be fighting gorilla warfare where you do not know where your enemy is…where its going to be an absolute blood-bath for sure before 2030…

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A staggering one-in-four American voters aged 18 to 35 would support a town, city, or state adopting Islamic Sharia Law as its legal code, even if it means overriding current laws and constitutional rights and freedoms, alarming new polling data has revealed.

The disturbing support for the anti-American laws was revealed in polling released this week by Our Republic and Rasmussen.

The findings reveal substantial support among younger voters for government enforcement of a religious legal system, raising concerns about their understanding of constitutional protections and individual rights.

Overall, 21% of likely voters expressed a mostly or somewhat positive opinion of Sharia, while 57% expressed a negative opinion.

Positive views were significantly higher among younger respondents: 43% of voters ages 18–24 and 39% of those ages 25–29.

Constitutional Freedoms Treated as Obstacles

Our Republic President Justin Haskins argues that the results reflect a failure to understand the Constitution and the protections it provides.

“Too many have been taught to see constitutional limits as obstacles to progress, especially when those limits stand in the way of policies they believe would help groups they view as oppressed,” Haskins said.

“Because Muslims are widely perceived by young people as an oppressed or marginalized group, I suspect many default to a sympathetic view of policies associated with Islam without seriously considering whether those policies are compatible with constitutional freedoms,” Haskins added.

“The irony is that, in doing so, they may be undermining the very rights they claim to care about.”

Haskins connects that thinking to what he calls “the oppressor-versus-oppressed framework associated with Critical Theory.”

Under that framework, sympathy for a group perceived as marginalized can take precedence over examining whether its associated policies protect individual liberty.

Haskins does not believe the respondents are necessarily committed Islamists or that they primarily view Sharia as an expression of religious liberty.

Rather, Haskins said, “the more important factor is that Muslims are widely perceived as an oppressed or marginalized group in the United States.”

“Within that framework, groups perceived as marginalized are often treated sympathetically without much scrutiny of what those groups or their belief systems actually teach,” Haskins said.

Refugee Admissions Add to Immigration Debate

The polling comes alongside figures from the State Department showing that refugee admissions from 45 majority-Muslim countries reached 21,096 in December 2024, former President Joe Biden’s final full month in office.

The figures add immigration policy to the debate over how support for Sharia develops in Western countries.

The supplied comparison with France points to growing support for Sharia among young French Muslims, driven by stricter religious observance, and raises the concern that support for such a system can arrive alongside immigration from Muslim-majority nations.

But the American polling also highlights a domestic problem: young voters raised under constitutional protections are expressing support for replacing a community’s legal code with a religious system.

Haskins’ concern is that their political education has left them more committed to an ideological hierarchy of oppressors and victims than to the freedoms that protect everyone.

Young Voters Back Dismantling Israel for Cheaper Energy

Another finding from the polling series showed substantial support among younger Americans for eliminating Israel in exchange for ending the Iran war and lowering U.S. energy prices.

Among voters ages 18–24, 46% supported the proposal.

Among those ages 25–29, support reached 60%.

Our Republic’s question described a proposal “to completely dismantle Israel and replace it with a Palestinian-led nation in exchange for ending the war with Iran and providing the United States with lower oil and gas prices.”

The results reinforce Haskins’ warning about how younger voters assess issues involving groups they consider oppressed.

In this case, large shares of young respondents supported dismantling an entire country as part of a bargain promising peace and cheaper fuel.

French Unrest Highlights Red-Green Alliance

The debate is unfolding as student unrest spreads across France, with rioters burning trash bins, school buildings, and police barriers.

Demonstrators have cited failing schools and budget cuts. Some have taken selfies beside the fires.

Hamas and communist flags have appeared at the protests, reinforcing concerns about the alliance between far-left activism and Islamist political causes.

The Center for Renewing America describes the Red-Green Alliance as drawing “on two seemingly conflicting ideologies — Marxism and Islamism — bound together by a common mission to tear down the traditional American way of life.”

That shared opposition to Western institutions echoes the framework Haskins identifies: political causes are judged through an oppressor-versus-oppressed narrative, while the principles those causes threaten receive less scrutiny.

Lawmakers Warn Sharia Undermines Equal Protection

Rep. Keith Self (R-TX), who partnered with Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) to establish the Sharia-Free America Caucus, has detailed why imposing Sharia as a parallel legal system conflicts with the Constitution.

“Sharia creates unequal legal standards by distinguishing between Muslims and non-Muslims, men and women, and believers and dissenters,” Self wrote.

“These distinctions undermine constitutional protections and expose individuals to social or legal pressure that conflicts with American guarantees of freedom and equality.

“The United States cannot sustain parallel legal systems because the rule of law depends on one constitutional standard applying equally to every citizen.”

Haskins describes Sharia as “a comprehensive religious and legal system,” arguing that young Americans’ sympathy may outweigh their understanding of what its implementation entails.

The polling therefore presents more than a question about attitudes toward religion. It asks whether voters would accept a different legal code governing their community because a majority demanded it.

Constitutional protections exist precisely to safeguard individual rights against that kind of majority pressure.

Schools Face Questions Over What Students Are Learning

Lawmakers are already organizing against the imposition of Sharia, but legislation alone does not address the attitudes revealed by the polling.

Haskins’ analysis points toward education shaping those attitudes: teaching young people to evaluate policies according to which groups appear oppressed, rather than whether the policies preserve freedom and equality.

One in four young voters surveyed would support Sharia as their community’s legal code.

Substantial shares would also support dismantling Israel in exchange for lower energy prices and an end to war.

For conservatives, those findings put constitutional education squarely at the center of the problem.

Protecting America’s freedoms requires more than passing laws.

It requires confronting what young Americans are being taught about their country, individual rights, and the political movements asking them to surrender those protections.

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Pip: Freedom, surveillance, and the slow unraveling of things we assumed were permanent — if that sounds like a normal Tuesday, you might be spending too much time on the internet. Or just the right amount.

Mara: bettyhill has been covering a lot of ground this week — AI systems providing weapons instructions, euthanasia programs expanding across multiple countries, a biosecurity scare in Russia, and warning signs in the markets. Let’s start with what AI can do when nobody’s watching.

AI Power And Surveillance

Pip: The question this segment keeps circling is a simple and uncomfortable one: what happens when the safeguards built into AI systems are not actually safeguards, but suggestions?

Mara: Researcher Peter Garrigan found out the hard way. Testing China’s Kimi model, he discovered it could be manipulated into providing instructions for bioweapons, sarin gas, malware, aircraft attacks, and assassinations. His summary to Fox News was direct: “What we found is quite damaging and worrying.”

Pip: And the key detail is that Garrigan did not stop there. He also said, “We’ve also seen these problems within the U.S. models as well. It’s a fundamental flaw in the technology.” Not a Chinese flaw. A technology flaw.

Mara: Anthropic’s own threat intelligence report confirms that. Foreign scientists from countries where Claude was blocked managed to evade geographic restrictions and use the system for suspicious biological research — including one case involving engineered mutations of the chikungunya virus, pursued through a state-sponsored grant at what Anthropic believes was a military research institute.

Pip: Anthropic caught five cases. The honest question is how many they did not catch.

Mara: Anthropic head of threat intelligence Jacob Klein described the difficulty: “You are not seeing someone in a comic book kind of way say, ‘Hey, I want to build a biological weapon to kill everybody.’ It’s an incredibly nuanced situation.” Individual requests can look like legitimate science while serving a dangerous larger project.

Pip: Meanwhile, Anthropic has opened a robot-run biological laboratory where Claude directs physical experiments — wet lab, real reagents, real results. The CEO is simultaneously calling for AI slowdowns and building the infrastructure that makes those warnings necessary.

Mara: Sam Altman’s post on the dystopian futures piece captures the bind: “If an extraordinarily powerful AI is used by one person or company to impress their worldview onto everyone else, the results could be extremely dystopian.” OpenAI and Anthropic both committed to independent evaluator access, though no binding agreement exists.

Pip: Bill Gates put a number on his concern — one billion deaths — and called for mandatory international regulation. The EU, meanwhile, is using the Digital Services Act to designate ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms, giving Brussels authority over lawful speech deemed a “systemic risk,” backed by fines of up to six percent of global turnover.

Mara: Apple Watch’s new Live Rewind and Siri Recap features add another layer. The person wearing the watch opts in. Everyone else in the conversation does not get that choice. Entry-level tech jobs, meanwhile, have collapsed forty-nine percent since 2022 in New York City data — AI absorbing the work that used to train the next generation of workers. And Michigan is piloting GPS-based driver tracking, with privacy advocates warning it could become the foundation of a transportation surveillance state.

Pip: Tech billionaires are responding to the data center backlash by suggesting renaming them — fraud prevention centers, clean-energy optimization centers. The infrastructure stays the same. The branding gets friendlier. Germany, separately, is fining citizens for insulting Chancellor Merz on Facebook, while online anonymity crackdowns are spreading across Europe.

Mara: The thread connecting all of it is the question of who controls the systems doing the watching — and whether any of the safeguards are actually holding.

Pip: Which brings us somewhere darker — what happens when the systems meant to protect the vulnerable start moving in the opposite direction.

Assisted Death And Euthanasia

Pip: The euthanasia segment is about a specific and escalating tension: programs designed with narrow eligibility criteria that are expanding faster than anyone projected, and cases where the safeguards appear to have failed the people they were meant to protect.

Mara: The anchor case is Brigitte Stegemann, an eighty-three-year-old Ontario woman whose family says she was euthanized against her will. Her granddaughter Brigitte Kranendonk described the morning of the procedure: Stegemann failed a cognitive assessment, repeatedly ripped out a medical port, and screamed, “I don’t want the death shot!” When the doctor arrived, Stegemann was unresponsive. According to Kranendonk, “My Oma is not moving. She doesn’t open her eyes. She doesn’t nod. She doesn’t say anything, and the doctor just said: ‘Okay, well, I’m going to proceed.’”

Mara: Belleville Police confirmed the case is under investigation by its Criminal Investigations Division. A separate post covers the criminal investigation directly, with Kranendonk alleging that Stegemann had previously told her clearly she did not want MAiD, and that her Christian faith was a major reason.

Pip: Canada’s MAiD program recorded sixteen thousand four hundred ninety-nine deaths in 2024. For comparison, the U.S. recorded fifteen thousand three hundred sixty-four firearm homicides the same year — in a country more than eight times larger.

Mara: A Canadian MP, Tamara Jansen, told the House of Commons that her terminally ill brother Johan was asked six separate times whether he wanted assisted dying while lying in a hospital hallway. He refused every time and gained eight to ten more months with his family. Jansen’s Bill C-218 aims to block the planned 2027 expansion of MAiD to people whose sole condition is mental illness.

Pip: Victoria, Australia recorded a four hundred percent rise in euthanasia deaths over five years, and is now loosening eligibility, shortening waiting periods, and allowing doctors to raise the option with patients who have not asked. California hit a record twelve hundred thirty-five assisted suicide deaths in 2025 — a hundred and forty-nine percent increase since 2020 — and in nearly half of cases, the state does not know whether complications occurred.

Mara: Right to Life UK’s chief executive said of the Victoria figures: “Once assisted dying is made legal, often more and more people have their lives ended every year. This will likely only get worse once the law expands.”

Pip: The data and the individual cases are pulling in the same direction — and neither direction is reassuring. Speaking of things moving faster than expected and in ways that are hard to reverse, let’s look at the wider geopolitical and biosecurity picture.

Geopolitics And Biosecurity Fears

Pip: From AI labs to actual laboratories — this segment is about physical threats crossing borders, and the gap between what officials say and what the response suggests.

Mara: A twenty-eight-year-old employee at Russia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died from what authorities classified as “pneumonia of unknown etiology.” Nearly two hundred contacts were placed under observation, multiple hospitals were quarantined, and Russia’s chief sanitary doctor flew roughly twenty-six hundred miles from Moscow to oversee the response. The Trump administration said it is “aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options.”

Pip: Experts questioned the official broken-test-tube explanation. One epidemiologist called it “laughable,” noting that anti-plague institute workers wear full protective suits. A University of Reading researcher said a broken tube “would not automatically lead to exposure or infection” given standard high-containment lab protocols.

Mara: Separately, the U.S. pulled all twelve B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford in England after British police arrested six suspects near the base in connection with a suspected Iran-linked terror plot. Wall Street analyst Ed Dowd’s warning about the AI bubble also feeds into this segment’s economic dimension — he flags China’s weakening economy as one of the pressures converging on markets. China’s own pivot is notable: it is targeting seventy percent EV and hybrid vehicle sales by 2030, with EVs already at sixty-five percent of passenger sales in August, structurally removing one of the world’s largest sources of oil demand growth.

Pip: A whistleblower banker who brought emails linking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein to the House Oversight Committee was found dead at fifty-seven, with no official cause released. And a study tracking U.S. mortality data found that death rates among Americans aged twenty-five to forty-four surged seventy-one percent between 2010 and 2021 — driven by overdoses, suicide, homicide, and chronic disease. Globally, people aged sixty-five and older now outnumber children under five for the first time in recorded history.

Mara: The demographic and biosecurity pressures are pointing in the same direction — systems under strain before the next shock arrives.

Pip: And the financial system may be the next place that strain becomes visible.

Markets And Economic Strain

Pip: The market segment asks a straightforward question: is the AI investment boom a genuine economic transformation, or the biggest speculative bubble in history?

Mara: Wall Street analyst Ed Dowd, who called the Dot-com bubble before it burst, is making the comparison explicitly. His assessment: “Currently, we have the greatest bubble of all time, and that is the AI bubble. It is in the process of becoming exposed, and people are beginning to issue warning signals.”

Pip: Dowd’s specific mechanism is worth noting — it is not just hype. He argues data centers cannot be powered by available electricity, capital costs are rising, private credit is under stress, and government borrowing is crowding out AI financing. A forty to fifty percent market correction is his estimate of the fallout.

Mara: His broader economic read reinforces the concern: weak consumer spending, a housing market rolling over, and an economy already under pressure before the AI financing crunch arrives. The warning is that the bubble does not require mass public panic to burst — it just requires the people already inside it to start racing for the exits.

Pip: The infrastructure, the biology, the demographics, and now the markets — all of it lands in the same place next episode.

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Mara: The through-line across everything this week is the question of who controls consequential systems — and whether the people inside those systems are being protected or processed.

Pip: AI that bypasses its own safeguards, euthanasia programs that expand past their stated limits, biosecurity responses that contradict official assurances, markets built on infrastructure that may not hold. Next time, we keep pulling that thread.

Comment: Euthanasia has skyrocketed in ALL Western countries and is accelerating at an out-of-control unnatural rate of deaths never ever envisioned…but why, as the people have no answers from their governments for these exploding vast numbers of mortalities that are now being called death by suicide and what it was never intended for when the Laws were created…

Pip: World Freedom — where the news lands with the weight of a policy document and the urgency of a fire alarm. Today we’re in territory that asks how far a law can travel from its original promise before it becomes something else entirely.

Mara: bettyhill has been tracking exactly that question, and the ground we’re covering today is assisted dying in Australia — the numbers, the safeguards, and what the expansion of the law actually means in practice.

Pip: Let’s start with Victoria’s euthanasia figures, because the arithmetic alone tells a story.

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Euthanasia Deaths Surge 400% in Victoria

Mara: The central tension here is whether a law designed with strict limits can hold those limits once it’s running — and Victoria’s data gives us a live case study.

Pip: The post quotes Right to Life UK chief executive Alisdair Hungerford-Morgan directly on the trajectory: “Euthanasia deaths in Victoria have risen by 400% in five years and they rose by nearly 60% in the last year alone. Sadly, as in other jurisdictions, once assisted dying is made legal, often more and more people have their lives ended every year.”

Mara: So the upshot is that the growth isn’t a spike — it’s a sustained climb. Victoria recorded 512 deaths through assisted suicide and euthanasia in the 2025-26 reporting year, a 31.62% increase from the previous year’s 389. Since legalization in 2019, 2,188 people have died through these practices.

Pip: And the share of all deaths is the number that reframes everything. Assisted suicide and euthanasia now account for 1.1% of all deaths in Victoria — nearly four times the 0.3% recorded in the system’s first year.

Mara: The post also flags a sharp rise in applicants who did not access palliative care before applying — up from 118 in 2024-25 to 179 in 2025-26, an increase exceeding 50% in a single year. Only three applications in that same year were referred for an additional assessment of the patient’s decision-making capacity.

Pip: That last figure is the one that sits uncomfortably. Fewer checks, more deaths, and the government’s response is to expand the program.

Mara: Specifically: the eligibility window doubles from six months to twelve for most conditions, doctors will be permitted to raise assisted dying without being asked, the third assessment for neurodegenerative conditions is eliminated, and the waiting period between first and final requests drops from nine days to five. The Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has already stated it “expects further growth in applications following the legislative change.”

Pip: Hungerford-Morgan closes with a line that connects Victoria directly to the Westminster debate: “People nearing the end of their lives deserve protection and the best possible care, not a pathway to suicide.” The post also points readers toward Canada’s figures, where euthanasia deaths have surpassed U.S. gun homicides — a comparison that suggests Victoria is not an outlier so much as a data point on a longer arc.

Mara: And that arc — what happens when eligibility expands and safeguards contract simultaneously — is the question the numbers keep raising.

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Pip: A 400% rise in five years, and the legislative response is to widen the door further. The slope Hungerford-Morgan describes isn’t hypothetical anymore — it has a spreadsheet.

Mara: Next time we’ll see what other territories are grappling with as these laws travel. The pattern, it turns out, is the story.

Pip: Freedom, they say, is the thing worth protecting — though it gets harder to argue when the week’s news includes assisted death surges, AI bioweapon manuals, and a plague researcher dying under circumstances nobody will explain.

Mara: bettyhill has been tracking all of it across World Freedom — euthanasia policy expanding faster than its own safeguards, artificial intelligence being exploited for mass-casualty research, and a cluster of security and mystery-death stories that refuse to resolve cleanly.

Pip: Let’s start with the assisted dying numbers out of Australia and Canada.

Euthanasia Deaths Surge Across Australia and Canada

Mara: The central tension here is whether assisted dying laws, once passed, stay bounded — or whether the numbers and the eligibility criteria keep expanding year after year without a corresponding tightening of oversight.

Pip: Victoria’s own review board answers that pretty directly. The post quotes Right to Life UK’s Alisdair Hungerford-Morgan: “Euthanasia deaths in Victoria have risen by 400% in five years and they rose by nearly 60% in the last year alone. This will likely only get worse once the law expands.”

Mara: The raw figures support that. Victoria recorded 512 assisted deaths in the 2025-26 reporting year — up from 389 the previous year. Assisted suicide and euthanasia now account for 1.1% of all deaths in the state, nearly four times the share recorded in the program’s first year.

Pip: And the state’s response to that trajectory is to widen eligibility, shorten waiting periods, and let doctors raise the option with patients who haven’t asked. That is a significant shift in who initiates the conversation.

Mara: The Canadian picture adds a human dimension to the policy concern. A Conservative MP, Tamara Jansen, told the House of Commons that hospital staff asked her terminally ill brother six separate times whether he wanted assisted dying — despite his clear wish to keep living. Her bill, C-218, aims to block the planned 2027 expansion to patients whose sole condition is mental illness.

Pip: Six times. The policy says it’s a patient-led choice. The ward apparently had other ideas.

Mara: That gap between the stated principle and the reported practice is exactly what Jansen’s legislation is designed to address. The expansion remains scheduled regardless.

AI as a Mass-Casualty Tool

Pip: The question this segment keeps returning to is whether AI safety guardrails are a genuine barrier or just a speed bump — because the evidence from two separate disclosures suggests the latter.

Mara: Researcher Peter Garrigan found that Moonshot AI’s Kimi model could be manipulated into providing instructions across multiple catastrophic categories. His summary was direct: “What we found is quite damaging and worrying.”

Pip: And he did not stop at Chinese models — he told Fox News the same vulnerabilities appear in American systems, calling it “a fundamental flaw in the technology.” That is a much larger claim than one company’s bad week.

Mara: Anthropic’s own disclosures back that up. The company identified five cases in which foreign scientists circumvented geographic restrictions and used its Claude model while pursuing suspicious biological research — including one case involving engineered mutations of the chikungunya virus, apparently connected to a military research institute. Anthropic terminated every account but acknowledged it cannot always determine final intent.

Pip: Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon put it plainly after resigning: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” That is not a critic from outside the industry. That is someone who was inside it.

Mara: Bill Gates made a comparable point publicly, telling NBC’s Meet the Press that AI is “certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths.” He called for mandatory international regulation, though he did not specify who would lead such a body or what authority it would hold over sovereign governments.

Pip: Reassuring that the man warning about a billion deaths also doesn’t have the governance details worked out yet.

Mara: The structural problem both disclosures share is the same one Garrigan named — the flaw is in the technology itself, not just in one model or one company’s oversight failure. That makes the next undetected case a question of when, not if.

Pip: From AI systems being exploited for mass harm, to threats playing out in physical space — and one death that raises questions nobody is rushing to answer.

Bombers, Plague, and a Whistleblower Found Dead

Pip: This segment covers three stories that share a common shape: official explanations that don’t quite close the gap between what happened and what we’re told happened.

Mara: The most operationally concrete is the B-1 bomber withdrawal from RAF Fairford. The U.S. pulled all 12 aircraft after British police arrested six men near the base — including a dual British-Iranian national — on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. The Pentagon confirmed: “All US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have redeployed to their home stations in the United States.”

Pip: Britain released all six suspects on bail. Trump said publicly he would not have done that. The bombers left anyway, which is its own kind of answer about the assessed threat level.

Mara: Running parallel to that are two posts covering the death of a 28-year-old Russian lab worker, Darya Shipilova, at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute. Nearly 200 contacts were hospitalized for observation, multiple hospitals entered quarantine mode, and a criminal investigation was opened — all while Russian authorities classified her cause of death as “pneumonia of unknown etiology” and denied any plague outbreak.

Pip: A regional official initially said she died “possibly from the plague,” then walked it back. Warnings posted to local Telegram channels were deleted. Russia’s top sanitary official flew 2,600 miles to oversee the response in person, which is not what you do for a routine pneumonia case.

Mara: Then there is the death of British banker Simon Andriesz, who had brought emails linking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein before the House Oversight Committee. He was found dead on September 25. No official cause of death has been confirmed, though one outlet reported suicide. Rep. Thomas Massie announced the death publicly, noting Andriesz’s role in surfacing the Epstein correspondence.

Pip: Three stories, three sets of incomplete answers. The week’s pattern holds.

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Mara: What connects all of this is the question of whether the systems meant to protect people — medical, technological, governmental — are actually doing that, or whether the gap between the stated purpose and the real-world outcome keeps widening.

Pip: And whether anyone with the authority to close that gap has any intention of doing so. Next episode will tell us whether the trend line bends or just keeps going.

Pip: There’s something clarifying about living in a world where your government wants to protect you so thoroughly that it controls what you’re allowed to read during a crisis it hasn’t bothered to define yet.

Mara: That’s the territory bettyhill has been mapping across a run of recent posts — digital censorship, biolabs, AI in the classroom, and disaster preparedness. All of it pointing at the same underlying question: who actually holds power over daily life.

Pip: Let’s start with the censorship architecture being built in the UK and beyond.

When “Crisis” Becomes a Blank Check

Mara: The anchor here is the UK’s Online Safety Act, and what it’s quietly becoming. Under new framework powers, Ofcom can direct platforms to implement enhanced moderation during any government-declared crisis — and when Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn was pressed on how a crisis gets defined, he admitted the criteria haven’t been finalized yet.

Pip: So the power to silence speech is live; the definition of when to use it is still being workshopped. That’s a reassuring order of operations.

Mara: Critics say exactly that. The post notes that Cabinet Office guidance treats “crisis” and “emergency” interchangeably, and the definition covers situations that merely have “the potential to cause harm” — not just actual harm. No additional parliamentary vote is required before enhanced censorship kicks in.

Pip: Running alongside that is the Digital ID mandate post, which covers Starmer’s plan to require age verification across every major platform — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube. Opponents call it a de facto digital ID system for internet access, full stop.

Mara: Telegram founder Pavel Durov made that argument directly at the Freedom Forum in Oslo. His warning: “Once somebody says child protection, all of a sudden it triggers very ancient, very deep parts of our brain. It completely bypasses logic. It bypasses debate.” He argued that framing is how repressive legislation gets through.

Pip: And in Germany, the consequences of political speech are already financial. The post on German citizens fined for mocking Chancellor Merz details two individuals ordered to pay roughly two thousand euros each for Facebook comments — prosecuted under Section 188, a law giving politicians enhanced protections ordinary citizens don’t have.

Mara: Prosecutors pursued those cases based on what they described as a “special public interest,” even though Merz himself wasn’t involved in initiating them. Notably, other similar comments — “Lügenbaron,” “Lügen-Kasper” — were ruled protected speech in different jurisdictions, which critics say makes the legal boundary impossible to locate.

Pip: The biolab disclosures raise a different kind of boundary question — what governments knew, and when.

Biolabs, Pathogens, and What Was Hidden

Mara: The frame here is a series of intelligence disclosures from outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and warnings from AI executives about where biological risk is heading next. The AI executives’ letter to Congress is direct: “AI systems are improving rapidly, and alongside incredible benefits to science and medicine, there is a real possibility that the knowledge barriers which have historically prevented bad actors from obtaining biological weapons will meaningfully erode.”

Pip: The signatories on that letter include the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind — the people building the systems warning Congress about the systems they’re building.

Mara: Their specific ask is that synthetic DNA and RNA suppliers be required to screen orders for dangerous biological sequences and verify purchaser identities. Separately, researchers have already documented AI chatbots providing guidance on pathogen construction, and one study found AI systems can transfer dangerous behavioral traits to other AI models through a process called subliminal learning — hidden even after obvious references are scrubbed from training data.

Pip: Gabbard’s declassified documents add the institutional layer. The post on the Ukraine biolab intelligence identifies roughly 120 U.S.-funded labs across thirty countries, including more than forty facilities in Ukraine, some handling pathogens from the former Soviet weapons program — anthrax, Ebola, Marburg, plague.

Mara: The ODNI statement accompanying the release was pointed: “The information surrounding the existence, history, locations, and funding of these U.S.-funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America.”

Pip: A second post traces those labs’ origins to a 2005 partnership involving then-Senator Barack Obama and Senator Richard Lugar, framed at the time as threat-reduction work. Critics now argue the full scope of what was conducted there was never disclosed.

Mara: The depopulation angle enters through two other posts. Father James Altman’s alarm over Melinda French Gates centers on allegations that four billion dollars has been directed toward sterilization programs in developing nations. Altman’s rebuke of any religious justification was blunt: “You don’t get a get-out-of-jail-free card because you listened to some priest who teaches something contrary to 2,000 years of unchanged, unchangeable truth.”

Pip: And closer to home, fourteen state attorneys general have formally asked the EPA to investigate mifepristone contamination in public water systems — the post on abortion drugs in America’s water supply notes that chemical abortions have risen from six percent of all abortions in 2001 to sixty-three percent by 2023, and conventional wastewater treatment was never designed to remove those compounds.

Mara: The concern about who controls access to knowledge runs straight into the next set of posts — but there, the setting is the classroom.

Who Controls the Classroom, Who Controls the Mind

Pip: Sam Altman’s vision, delivered at BlackRock’s U.S. Infrastructure Summit, is that AI becomes a metered utility. His exact framing: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for.” OpenAI has set a target of six hundred billion dollars in compute spending by 2030 to build that infrastructure.

Mara: The upshot is that access to AI-assisted thinking would be billed by usage — every query, every reasoning task. Critics warn that concentrates control over knowledge and productivity in a handful of corporations. The post notes that those who can’t pay would simply have their access to “intelligence” cut off.

Pip: Stanford’s graduating class offered one answer to that vision — roughly two hundred of them walked out of commencement rather than hear Google CEO Sundar Pichai speak. Organizers cited Google’s Project Nimbus contracts and its AI partnerships with the Pentagon. Pichai, for his part, avoided the topic of AI entirely and spoke about his personal journey.

Mara: The most concrete counterpoint to the metered-intelligence model comes from a Minneapolis classroom. AP Literature teacher Maureen Mulvaney banned phones, laptops, and all digital devices. At the start of the year, forty-six percent of her students felt confident in their reading. By February, that figure was ninety-five percent.

Pip: She described the method as resistance training: “I told the kids this is like lifting weights. You don’t go in and you don’t start with 80 pounds.” Students reported that writing on paper made it easier to think, and one put it plainly — without devices, there’s no temptation to use AI, so original thinking becomes unavoidable.

Mara: The physical world has its own warnings that no algorithm is currently managing — and those are harder to defer.

The Ground Beneath California

Pip: Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of Bern, and partner institutions analyzed a thousand years of seismic activity along Southern California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems. Their finding is that stress accumulation has reached levels not seen in at least a millennium.

Mara: The study’s language is precise: “Results from this study suggest that the stress that would normally be released in large earthquakes has continued to accumulate and is now at unprecedented levels.” The focal point is Cajon Pass, where both fault systems converge — researchers describe it as an earthquake gate that could allow simultaneous rupture across both systems, affecting Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and the Coachella Valley.

Pip: Over a hundred and sixty years since the last major rupture, stress at historic highs, and no way to predict the date. The post notes critics are already questioning whether California’s political leadership — given its response to the Palisades wildfire — is positioned to handle that scale of emergency.

Mara: That sits alongside the UK rape gang inquiry report, which documents institutional failure of a different kind — years of abuse against young girls, with politicians, police, and authorities repeatedly failing to act. The post frames it as one of the gravest crimes-against-humanity scandals in British history, largely absent from mainstream coverage.

Pip: Two very different disasters, one common thread: the people responsible for protection were looking elsewhere.

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Mara: The through-line across all of this is the question of who defines the crisis, who controls the information about it, and who gets held accountable when the warning was there all along.

Pip: Next time, we’ll see whether any of those accountability mechanisms are actually moving. Don’t hold your breath — but do keep reading.

Blogger Comment: I thought that people died undermysterious circmstances under Obama and Biden, but it appears that all US presidents have this disease…including TRumpo…and everything that shines is not gold…

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A British banker who exposed emails linking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead, leaving unanswered questions about the circumstances of his mysterious sudden death.

Simon Andriesz uncovered communications about a startup involving Lutnick and Epstein and brought his findings to the House Oversight Committee.

Now, the former financial executive is dead.

Just like Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges, Andriesz’s death is shrouded in mystery.

No official cause of death has been released.

Transparency Task Force founder Andy Agathangelou confirmed that Andriesz died on September 25.

“It is with great sadness that we share the news that Simon Andriesz, a valued member of our community, passed away last week,” Agathangelou said.

Andriesz was associated with the watchdog organization, which monitors financial services companies.

Massie Confirms Whistleblower’s Death

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) also announced the death, highlighting Andriesz’s work uncovering the communications.

In a post on X, Massie wrote:

“Andriesz, the British banker who uncovered 2018 emails linking Howard Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein’s Adfin investment and took them to House Oversight, has died at age 57.

“BBC reported his findings.

“Lutnick later admitted to visiting the island but not the business dealings.”

The death comes months after Andriesz first flagged the emails in February 2026.

His findings subsequently received coverage from the BBC in July and intensified scrutiny of Lutnick’s relationship with the disgraced financier.

Cause of Death Remains Unconfirmed

The Banker reported that Andriesz died by suicide.

However, neither Agathangelou nor Massie identified a cause of death in their announcements, and no official cause has been released.

The location and circumstances of his death have not been publicly established in the available account.

There is also no established evidence connecting his death to his disclosures about Lutnick and Epstein.

Authorities have only confirmed that Andriesz was found dead.

What remains unanswered is how the banker died after bringing previously undisclosed communications to congressional attention.

Emails Challenged Lutnick’s Account

Andriesz previously worked at BGC Partners, a company within Lutnick’s business group.

According to the BBC, he was dismissed after reporting accounting irregularities that the company denied.

His subsequent investigation uncovered 2018 emails between Lutnick and Epstein discussing a startup with which both men were associated.

Andriesz first flagged the correspondence in February.

The BBC covered the findings after the emails were confirmed in Epstein files released by the Justice Department.

Those files also revealed that Andriesz had spoken to the FBI in 2020 and 2021 about Lutnick and Epstein.

Lutnick had previously said he met Epstein only once.

The emails challenged that account and prompted accusations that the commerce secretary had failed to fully disclose the extent of the relationship.

Congressional Scrutiny Followed

The disclosures led to a House Oversight Committee hearing involving Lutnick.

All 21 Democratic members of the committee called for his resignation.

Andriesz’s findings placed documented communications at the center of questions about Lutnick’s past dealings with Epstein.

Months later, the banker who brought those emails forward was found dead.

The Banker has reported suicide, but an official cause of death remains unreleased, leaving the circumstances surrounding Andriesz’s death unresolved.

Follow the link for the source… https://slaynews.com/banker-found-dead-blowing-whistle-epstein-links/

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Blogger Comment: Trump is looking like playing the hero here for Americans apparently with the British, but not true, as those who were arrested outside the US base RAF Fairford, had nothing to do with the Iranians, and where on good intel, they were Israelis…let that sink in…

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The United States has removed all 12 B-1 bombers stationed at RAF Fairford in England following a suspected terrorist plot involving possible Iranian proxies.

The aircraft completed their redeployment to American bases over the weekend, just over a week after British police arrested five men near the strategic bomber installation.

A sixth suspect, a dual British-Iranian national, was arrested days later under terrorism laws.

“While operational security precluded us from confirming the movement of our assets and forces in real-time, we can acknowledge now that all US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have redeployed to their home stations in the United States,” the War Department said in a statement.

All American bomber crews and their families will operate from bases inside the United States until further notice.

At least three of the aircraft had reached a base in South Dakota by Sunday.

Some departed Britain while officials were still arranging aerial refueling support.

Threat Information Triggered Urgent Redeployment

U.S. officials linked the timing of the withdrawal to intelligence concerning an Iran-backed plot against RAF Fairford.

Warnings about the threat first emerged three weeks earlier, but specific details and a new sense of urgency developed during the 24 hours before the bombers began leaving, according to an American official.

RAF Fairford has served as a forward operating base for U.S. heavy bombers conducting missions connected to the war with Iran, which began in February 2026.

The B-1s do not need to remain in Britain for American crews to conduct strikes.

A War Department official confirmed that bomber missions can still be launched from the continental United States.

The redeployment removes the aircraft, personnel, and their families from a British installation facing a possible foreign-backed terrorist threat while preserving America’s ability to strike targets from home.

Six Suspects Arrested

The security scare began on September 27 when British police responded to reports of three suspicious vehicles near RAF Fairford.

Authorities arrested five British nationals between the ages of 23 and 25 from the London area.

The men were detained on suspicion of explosives offenses and preparing terrorist acts.

Counter Terrorism Policing searched the vehicles with assistance from military and forensic specialists.

Investigators found no improvised explosive devices but recovered a quantity of fuel.

The five suspects were released on bail with restrictions on their movements and communications while the investigation continued.

On October 2, authorities arrested a 25-year-old dual British-Iranian national in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts under the Terrorism Act 2006.

He was also released on bail.

Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor of Counter Terrorism Policing said investigators were examining several possible explanations, including foreign-state involvement through proxy actors.

BREAKING: The US Air Force has removed all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, the Pentagon has said.

Sky's @jonathansamuels reads the US Air force statementhttps://t.co/sNNPvIqlRs pic.twitter.com/nfGfyNErkd

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 4, 2026

Trump Blasts Decision to Release Suspects

President Donald Trump condemned British authorities for releasing the original five suspects.

“I’m surprised that they released them,” President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on September 28.

“I wouldn’t have done that.”

“We know everything about them,” he added.

“We would not have released them.”

Trump said the incident “might be” connected to Iran but declined to disclose additional details.

The suspects remain under investigation, but British authorities allowed all six men arrested in connection with the probe to leave custody on bail.

The United States, meanwhile, removed a dozen strategic bombers, their crews, and their families from the base.

Bombers Return to American Soil

The B-1 is a long-range heavy bomber capable of launching missions from bases inside the United States.

Returning the aircraft home does not eliminate Washington’s ability to conduct operations against Iran.

It does, however, remove a high-value American military asset from a foreign installation that investigators believe may have been targeted by Iranian proxies.

RAF Fairford had played a significant role in American bomber operations throughout the conflict.

Now, every U.S. bomber assigned there has left Britain.

British police released the suspects.

President Trump said America would have kept them in custody.

And within days, all 12 B-1 bombers were safely back on American soil.

Follow the link for the source… https://slaynews.com/us-pulls-all-12-b-1-bombers-britain-suspected-iran-linked-terror-plot/

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Blogger Comment: For him to be a US President, he is not well informed of what is really going on here and if he believes its Russia, he does not know that Russia is and the No.1 prime target of the Globalists to take over the largest nation in the world by far with its land mass and the vast mineral resources that it has in the ground and that’s what the pseudo-Ukraine war is all about as a “on your marks” starter from 2014 onwards for this unprecedented wealth plunder and Trump is doing their business, but apparently he does not seem to know anything about that simple word and the world of ‘reality’…I wonder why…

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President Donald Trump is “assessing options” as a deadly plague outbreak in Russia triggers hospital lockdowns and sends neighboring nations scrambling to tighten their borders.

A 28-year-old employee at a Russian anti-plague institute has died, nearly 200 possible contacts have been placed under medical observation, and reports of a laboratory exposure have raised urgent questions about what happened.

The Kremlin is telling the public to trust official assurances.

But hospitals have restricted admissions and discharges, public events have been canceled, and warnings about the incident have been posted, then deleted.

The Trump administration “is aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options,” an official told Axios.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that an infection escaping containment could spread quickly.

“There’s very limited travel between the US and Russia, obviously, but like anything else, something like that gets out, it could quickly spread,” Rubio told reporters before departing for Iceland.

“I don’t think it’s cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and a cause to just keep an eye on it. And we’re doing that.”

Emergency Measures Spread Across Russia’s Borders

Russia’s neighbors are already taking action.

Kyrgyzstan ordered heightened sanitary controls at every border checkpoint.

Its Health Ministry said the precautions were “prompted by reports of a confirmed case of the plague in the Russian Federation.”

Uzbekistan announced measures to prevent highly dangerous infections from entering the country.

Kazakhstan, which shares a 4,750-mile frontier with Russia, said it is monitoring Irkutsk and conducting sanitary-quarantine checks at crossings.

Mongolia is maintaining a high-alert posture along its Russian border.

The emergency precautions follow the death of Daria Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute.

Shipilova was hospitalized with severe pneumonia and died within 48 hours, according to reports.

The Moscow Times initially reported that plague had killed her.

“Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague,” the newspaper reported.

Local officials described a “particularly dangerous infection.”

Russia’s public-health watchdog denies that a plague outbreak has occurred.

Young Lab Worker Dies as Hospitals Lock Down

Shipilova reportedly told medical staff she had broken a test tube containing live bacteria while collecting samples on an expedition near Mongolia.

That account remains disputed, and Russian authorities say investigators found no laboratory accident involving pathogenic microorganisms.

The response to her death, however, has been extensive.

The district hospital where she was treated was quarantined.

Around 200 people who may have had contact with her were placed under medical isolation or observation, including at least 100 in hospital wards.

Reports described up to five hospitals in and around Irkutsk operating in epidemic mode.

Several departments stopped admitting or discharging patients.

A patient at City Clinical Hospital No. 1 said relatives were barred from visiting and nobody was allowed out.

A relative of an institute employee described more than 60 people being sealed inside the facility from Friday, with food parcels passed through a checkpoint.

According to that account, no positive tests had been recorded by Saturday.

Health workers in hazmat suits were photographed in the region, and public events were canceled.

Shelekhovsky district Mayor Maxim Modin said authorities were carrying out a “comprehensive set of anti-epidemic measures.”

Irkutsk Gov. Igor Kobzev urged the public to remain calm.

“All identified contact persons have been placed under medical observation. As of today, the contacts show no signs of illness, and their laboratory test results are negative,” Kobzev wrote on Telegram on Friday.

His statement made no mention of Shipilova’s death.

Experts Challenge Lab Accident Explanation

Specialists are questioning whether the broken-test-tube account explains the fatal infection.

“It’s laughable,” Russian epidemiologist Mikhail Favorov said.

“Someone working at the anti-plague Institute in Irkutsk wears a protective anti-plague suit.

“If you break a test tube, the likelihood of infection is actually very low.

“In short, It doesn’t matter to the general public — they’ll believe the ‘dropped test tube story.’”

Dr. Simon Clarke of the University of Reading also challenged the explanation.

“One claim attracting attention is that a laboratory worker may have been infected after breaking a test tube in the lab,” Clarke said.

Clarke explained why such an incident would raise serious questions about laboratory safeguards.

“It is not unheard of for pathogens to escape from labs, but an awful lot must have gone wrong for a lab worker to be infected by a broken test tube.

“Having worked in high-containment laboratories, I know that handling dangerous pathogens involves multiple layers of protection, strict procedures, safety cabinets, airflow systems and careful procedures carried out by well-trained staff.

“Lab-acquired infections are rare events, and a broken tube would not automatically lead to exposure or infection.

“We also don’t tend to use test tubes very much.

“Until more details emerge, it is difficult to assess whether this represents an isolated case, an occupational exposure, or evidence of wider transmission.”

Russia’s chief sanitary doctor, Anna Popova, flew approximately 2,600 miles from Moscow to Irkutsk to oversee the response.

She has not spoken publicly.

Favorov argued that her involvement indicated a situation significantly worse than the public was being told.

“It’s absolutely hair-raising. We will not be told what really happened,” Favorov told The Moscow Times.

Warnings Vanish as Kremlin Pushes Official Account

The Kremlin has attempted to shut down speculation surrounding the death.

“One should rely on official statements from Rospotrebnadzor rather than listening to various rumors and speculation,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.

Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s public-health watchdog, has insisted since Sunday that there is no plague outbreak and that the situation in Irkutsk and Shelekhov is “stable.”

Officials said testing of Shipilova’s samples found no organisms associated with her work.

Meanwhile, local warnings have disappeared.

The administration of Baikalsk posted, then deleted, a Telegram message advising residents not to travel to Shelekhov after receiving “unofficial information about a confirmed case of plague.”

National broadcaster REN TV deleted five social media posts about the scare.

The Irkutsk Aluminum Plant ordered employees to wear masks on October 2 “due to the current situation in our region.”

The requirement was later described as a routine response to seasonal illness.

Reports also described treatment drugs running short as residents rushed pharmacies.

A former colleague said Shipilova’s family believes doctors initially treated her illness as a severe COVID case and administered antibiotics too late.

Buryatia’s regional leader, Alexei Tsydenov, initially referred to “the woman who died from plague,” before saying she “may have died from plague.” He denied there was an outbreak.

The plague diagnosis and the reported laboratory exposure remain unconfirmed.

What is clear is the scale of the response: a dead laboratory employee, hospital quarantines, emergency border precautions, and Russia’s top sanitary official dispatched to the region.

The Trump administration is watching and assessing options.

Russian authorities are offering assurances while experts demand answers about the fatal infection and warnings disappear from public view.

Follow the link for the source… https://slaynews.com/trump-assessing-options-deadly-russian-plague-nations-trigger-emergency-measures/

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Blogger Comment: This fear is part of the whole build-up to the rocky horror show coming to a place near you by courtesy of the Globalists with their power-grab of the world by 2030 and the set up of their One World Government (OWG)… people are just unaware of what is really going on and their only hope that they can save themselves is only possible if they get over this plague of ignorance and accepting that their politicians are nice people and would never do us harm and controlled from the dire ravages of the elites, where they have stated many times in Davos, that they will control you and me and do whatever they wish and want to to us…for the other side of true this grim story is that you and your loved ones will be no more and something to look forward to according to these evil monsters of pure evil where some of them reside in Davos bunker of Hell, but not all of them, as they are spread across the whole world with their malevolent evil intensions for humanity from 8.3 billion to a mere 400 million …believe me as mad as it sounds as otherwise you will just become one of their deadly and grim statistics…period

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Russian health authorities have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a 28-year-old employee at an anti-plague laboratory died from a mysterious “unknown infection” that caused severe pneumonia.

Darya Shipilova worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk.

She was hospitalized around September 29 with severe pneumonia, placed on a ventilator, and died on October 1.

Russia’s consumer protection and public health agency, Rospotrebnadzor, classified her illness as “pneumonia of unknown etiology.”

Authorities imposed quarantine measures at multiple medical facilities while investigators attempted to determine what killed her.

A senior regional official also raised the possibility that Shipilova had contracted plague.

Official Says Death Was ‘Possibly from the Plague’

Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighboring Russian republic of Buryatia, said Shipilova died “possibly from the plague.”

“There are no plague outbreaks in the republic, including in areas bordering Mongolia,” Tsydenov added.

He said the case was not connected to Buryatia.

Officials in the Irkutsk region initially described the case as a “suspected case of a particularly dangerous infection” or a “particularly dangerous infection.”

Irkutsk Gov. Igor Kobzev convened an “extraordinary” meeting of the regional anti-epidemic commission with Russia’s chief state sanitary doctor.

“All identified contact persons have been placed under medical observation,” Kobzev said on October 2.

“As of today, the contacts show no signs of illness, and their laboratory test results are negative.”

The governor later said Rospotrebnadzor had identified Shipilova’s illness as “pneumonia of unknown origin.”

“No microorganisms linked to the employee’s professional duties were detected in samples taken from the patient,” Kobzev added.

189 People Hospitalized for Observation

Authorities identified at least 197 people who may have come into contact with Shipilova.

Of those individuals, 189 were hospitalized for observation.

Officials placed 114 people in one medical facility, 63 in another, and 12 at the anti-plague institute.

The remaining contacts were monitored without being hospitalized.

Tests identified two COVID-19 infections and two cases of rhinovirus among those under observation.

Authorities reported no other infectious pathogens.

The Shelekhov district hospital, where Shipilova received treatment, was placed under quarantine.

Separate reports described quarantine measures at several additional medical facilities in Irkutsk, including city hospitals No. 1, No. 3, and No. 10, the Ivano-Matreninskaya Children’s Clinical Hospital, and at least one maternity hospital.

The Irkutsk Aluminum Plant instructed employees to wear masks.

Officials also canceled scheduled public events in Irkutsk.

Anti-Plague Institute Inspected

Rospotrebnadzor said it implemented special measures “in connection with the case of an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute” who had been diagnosed with “pneumonia of unknown etiology.”

A commission inspected the institute and reported that no accidents involving pathogenic microorganisms had occurred.

Officials also said no other institute employees displayed symptoms of an infectious disease.

Investigators examined reports of a possible laboratory accident and claims that Shipilova had traveled abroad.

They found no evidence supporting either account.

Expanded testing of samples taken from Shipilova also failed to detect microorganisms connected to her professional work, according to the agency.

BREAKING:

5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak.

The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while… pic.twitter.com/N6tKLRyAJ5

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 4, 2026

Criminal Investigation Opened

Russian authorities opened a criminal investigation into possible sanitary violations as the effort to identify the infection continued.

Shipilova worked at an institution dedicated to researching and containing some of the world’s most dangerous diseases.

She then developed severe pneumonia, required mechanical ventilation, and died within days.

Authorities responded by hospitalizing 189 contacts, quarantining several medical facilities, canceling public events, and opening a criminal investigation.

Yet the pathogen responsible for her death remains unidentified.

Russian officials say testing has not connected Shipilova’s illness to her laboratory work, while one regional leader publicly raised the possibility of plague.

For now, nearly 200 people remain under observation as health authorities investigate the mystery infection that killed a young employee at one of Russia’s anti-plague institutes.

Follow the link for the source… https://slaynews.com/russian-plague-researcher-dies-unknown-infection-emergency-quarantined-declared/

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Blogger Comments: And the KILLING goes on…that the Globalist required…

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Euthanasia deaths have skyrocketed by 400% in Victoria, Australia, over five years as the state prepares to weaken safeguards and dramatically expand access to government-sanctioned death.

Victoria recorded 140 cases of euthanasia between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, according to the latest annual report from the state’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board.

That represents a 59.09% increase from the previous year, when medical practitioners ended 88 lives by administering lethal substances.

The state is now preparing to widen eligibility, shorten waiting periods, and allow doctors to raise euthanasia with vulnerable patients without being asked.

Assisted Deaths Reach 1.1% of All Deaths

Victoria recorded 512 deaths through euthanasia and assisted suicide during the 2025-26 reporting year.

The total marked a 31.62% increase from the previous year’s 389 deaths.

Of the 512 deaths, 372 involved assisted suicide, where the patient took the lethal substance. The remaining 140 were euthanasia cases in which a medical practitioner administered the substance.

Assisted suicide and euthanasia now account for 1.1% of all deaths in Victoria.

That is nearly four times the 0.3% recorded during the system’s first year of operation in 2019-20.

Since Victoria legalized the practices in June 2019, 2,188 people have died through assisted suicide or euthanasia.

The total annual number has risen by 153.47% between the 2020-21 and 2025-26 reporting years.

More Applicants Had No Palliative Care

The report also revealed a sharp increase in applicants who did not access palliative care.

That number surged from 118 in 2024-25 to 179 in 2025-26, an increase exceeding 50% in just one year.

Only three applications during 2025-26 were referred for an additional assessment concerning the patient’s ability to make the decision.

Since the state legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide, just 38 cases have received such referrals.

Rather than responding to the rapidly rising death toll by strengthening protections, Victoria’s government is preparing to expand the system further in 2027.

Eligibility Window Doubled

Under the existing rules, most patients must have been expected to die within six months to qualify.

Those diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases could qualify with a prognosis of up to 12 months.

Beginning next year, the 12-month eligibility period will apply to all qualifying conditions, doubling the window for most patients.

The change means people expected to live for another year will be eligible to have their lives ended through assisted suicide or euthanasia.

Victoria approved the expansion only six years after the original law took effect.

Doctors Allowed to Push Euthanasia

Doctors will also be permitted to raise assisted suicide or euthanasia with patients without waiting for them to ask.

Medical practitioners who conscientiously object to taking part will be required to provide patients with information about the program.

The requirement for patients with neurodegenerative conditions to undergo a third assessment will be eliminated.

The minimum period between a patient’s first and final requests will also be reduced from nine days to five.

Noncitizens Granted Access

The expanded law will allow people who have lived in Australia for just three years to access assisted suicide or euthanasia even if they are neither citizens nor permanent residents.

Victoria is also making it easier for medical practitioners to enter the program and administer assisted deaths.

Practitioner eligibility requirements will be loosened, permits will be simplified, and a new administrative practitioner role will be established.

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has already stated that it “expects further growth in [assisted suicide and euthanasia] applications following the legislative change.”

‘Slippery Slope’ Becomes Reality

Right to Life UK chief executive Alisdair Hungerford-Morgan said Victoria’s surging death toll demonstrates how quickly assisted-suicide laws expand.

“Euthanasia deaths in Victoria have risen by 400% in five years and they rose by nearly 60% in the last year alone,” Hungerford-Morgan said.

“Sadly, as in other jurisdictions, once assisted dying is made legal, often more and more people have their lives ended every year.”

“This will likely only get worse once the law expands.

“The removal of safeguards and the expansion of assisted suicide and euthanasia in Victoria, Australia, is a very concerning development.

“It provides yet another example of how the slippery slope of assisted suicide so often becomes a reality, and that there is a clear tendency towards reducing safeguards and widening the eligibility criteria in places where assisted suicide has been legalised.

“The surging number of deaths in Victoria shows why MPs in Westminster were right to reject assisted suicide this month.

“People nearing the end of their lives deserve protection and the best possible care, not a pathway to suicide.”

Follow the link for the source… https://slaynews.com/euthanasia-deaths-surge-400-australian-state-government-expands-assisted-suicide-law/

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