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Leslie Manookian presents at the Idaho Capitol
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Explanation of your rights, how they are defined, and where they come from. A breakdown of how the government has slowly taken them away with examples from other states, and what you can do to get involved.
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Miste: I just wanted to introduce my friend, Leslie Manookian. She's on the board of Health Freedom Idaho and is also running Health Freedom Defense Fund. She's a powerhouse for Liberty. I mean, she's amazing. She inspires me all the time. I am really excited that she's here because she's going to speak truth with so much power and so much truth that it will empower you to be able to talk to your legislators, your family, friends, your churchgoers, and fellow people that go to the schools, everybody around you. So we have to be spreading the truth as fast and as truthful as possible. So Leslie's going to empower you to do that. This is the beginning of the 2022 legislative session. Everything that Health Freedom Idaho has been doing since 2016 has been for such a time as this. Right now is the time to hold the line for health freedom. So we are going to do all we can to empower you to hold the line. If you're not already a member, you can join us at healthfreedomidaho.org (updated to healthfreedomidaho.com). Sorry to say again, a tech thing. Our website has been down for about a month now, and we're working on it and hoping, hopefully, in the next 24-48 hours, it's going to be back up.
But literally, our email list is golden because we're so silenced on social media, right? That's where you will get your calls to action throughout the legislative session. It's going to be fast. People will say to me, oh, we need three days' time, and then we can be there. That's just not the case; it's not feasible that we don't even get that time. We get less than 24 hours to see the bill, read the bill, decide what it's trying to say or what it's going to do, and how it's going to impact your freedom. Send out an email letting you know what the call to action is and also a write-up about it, and that's how fast it goes. So anyway, I am honored to introduce my good friend, Leslie. I hope you have something to take notes cause she's going to bring a lot of truth today.
Sarah: Oh my gosh. She's amazing. I don't know her whole resume, but I can't wait for you to hear it because her brain is amazing, and every time we have legal questions and just every kind of question, she is our resource, and she's so great. So I'm excited she can be here.
Miste: And she's an Idahoan.
Leslie: I was watching the last few minutes Non-Compliant, and I was welling up. And welling up because, friends, we stand on the precipice of disaster or a future of freedom. I'm not saying that to be- it's not a cliche. It's real. What happened yesterday in the Supreme Court is a travesty of justice. They denied fact, truth, science, and justice. So I'm so excited to be here today and talk to all of you because we are here at a seminal moment for our country. And if our country falls, the whole world will fall.
That's the truth. Every single week I work with people from all over the world, and they are all looking to this country for the future because they know they're already over the edge in Australia. They're already locking them down in Austria and Germany. Despite the fact that science shows these shots don't do anything. This is not, as I said since the very beginning, this is not about a virus, and it's not about public health, and it never has been.
And that may make me unpopular. That may make a lot of people call me a conspiracy theorist. I can prove it. What is happening is a denial of the science. It's a denial of the facts. It has nothing to do with your health. It has nothing to do with public health. It has to do with power, money, and control, and unless we speak the truth, we can't defeat that enemy. So it's high time people understand that what we face is not about some misguided bureaucrat or uninformed politician. It's about a battle for the future of our country.
I want to go way, way back to the Declaration of Independence. How many people in this room think that the Declaration of Independence has any kind of legal binding in America?
So a few of you do, but the vast majority of you don't. Here's the truth, courts and judges across this country go to our founding documents and the writings and musings of our founding fathers in order to understand their intent. They do. It does have an impact. It is considered when matters of law are under review. And while it may seem boring to you, I just want to read this because I find it some of the most inspiring and, as my general counsel to Health Freedom Defense Fund says, radical notions ever written. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with unalienable rights that are among these not limited to are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Why is that so radical, folks? Because never before in the history of humanity has any group of people come together and said our rights come from our creator, not from a government. And if they don't come from the government, if they come from our creator, they can't be taken away, can they? There are only taken away because we allow them to be. And because we are uninformed about our true rights.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Have we heard anything about locking us down, taking away your business, or telling you when you can't leave your house? Anywhere in there yet?
"That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
I want you to understand that it's not just some nice words on a piece of paper. That actually is critically important in the understanding of everything that is America, everything. And if you understand that and you share that with your friends and your family members, perhaps they too will be inspired to stand up and claim what is rightfully theirs, which is bodily autonomy, sovereignty, and true freedom.
So nowhere in the US Constitution does it say anything about privacy, but the Supreme court has, over a period of decades, created what they call the zone of privacy. Privacy, autonomy, self-determination. They use many words for it, but it's all based on a bunch of different lawsuits beginning in 1965 with Griswald versus Connecticut.
Now, this was a situation where the state of Connecticut had prohibited contraception, and a Catholic couple sued the state and said, you can't tell us whether or not we use a condom in our marriage, and the Supreme Court ruled and said, yes, that's correct you have a zone of privacy. Otherwise, the state would be coming into every single family's bedroom and just policing whether or not they were breaking the law. Clearly, that's absurd.
So they said we all have a zone of privacy around us into which the state cannot intrude. Now they made some other rulings that a lot of us probably don't like, like Roe V Wade, but there were other rulings like Cruzan v. Director, which said that you have the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment. Imagine that it's your body, and it's your right.
So over a period of 60, or 70 years, they said you have the right to autonomy, to privacy, and to self-determination. And to me, the most sacred of rights is that of self-determination. If we don't have the right to decide what we put into our bodies, we are not free. To me, it's more sacred even than free speech, and I'm a huge proponent of free speech, of course. But if someone can actually plunge your needle into your arm, a government, because they say it's for your own good or worse in service to someone else, we have really lost our way. The good news is we do have our founding documents, and the Supreme Court has reinforced all of these ideas. Unfortunately, they seem to have lost their way yesterday, and I'll touch on that in a little bit. So what does the Idaho constitution say because that's where we live.
Article I, Section 1:
"All men are by nature free and equal, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property; pursuing happiness and securing safety."
Anything in there about submitting to unwanted medical treatment?
All of the legislators in here, you must know that you are the last line in the sand for us. You must defend these principles. That is your duty, your obligation to the state of Idaho. The Idaho constitution goes on:
"All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their equal protection and benefit."
"All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their equal protection and benefit,"
Not for some in service to others or a theoretical idea.
"and they have the right to alter, reform or abolish the same whenever they may deem it necessary."
What's also really important is Section 21; just because it's not enumerated doesn't mean it's not your right. You have to understand that our documents in the United States aren't a restraint on you. They're a restraint on government. They don't delineate or enumerate every single one of your rights. Just a few to give you a sense, your rights are unlimited, they're limitless, and they can't be taken away, so even if they're not enumerated in any of these documents, that doesn't mean you don't have a right. The only way that a government can tell me what to do is if it specifically has that power and the Constitution is very limited in that respect in the United States and also in Idaho.
I know my own legislator, Senator Michelle Stennett, sent out an email to our whole district and all her constituents a few weeks ago, and she said in there that Idaho has the Health Freedom Act but that it's probably not enforceable because of the supremacy clause in the US Constitution.
How many of you believe that the US Constitution is the supreme law of the land? It is only if, however, whatever laws are being implemented in pursuance of the Constitution are constitutional. So how can it be constitutional if it overrides your rights to bodily autonomy and self-determination? It's not.
So she wrote out our Health Freedom Act isn't enforceable because of the supremacy clause. But she forgot this part, Article 6, this Constitution and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof. If the laws aren't made in pursuit of the US Constitution, they are not the supreme law of the land.
So when the US Constitution and other edicts emanating from Washington conflict with Idaho law, unless they're constitutional, they have no force of law. And the only thing that matters is that legislators united will stand up for your rights. So please get on their backs, insist they do your bidding, insist they uphold the law because this idea that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, even when it's unconstitutional, so like when they passed things that are unconstitutional, it is clearly null and void according to Article 6.
The bottom line is if it's not constitutional. It's not a law, and you are free.
So very often, I hear from people, well, I can get an exemption. Or I've heard some legislators for over the last decade of working here in the Capitol, you know, we provide an exemption. That is the most wrongheaded thinking I have ever heard. You can't exempt me from a law that doesn't bind me.
There is no such thing as an exemption, and here's the other thing, if you subscribe to the idea, well, it's not a problem because you know that you've granted us exemptions. You completely lost your way as an American. You have no appreciation or understanding that the government does not own you. You own the government.
They are implemented to do your bidding to protect your rights, not to trot on them, but that's what they're doing. And they justify it by saying, well, we provide an exemption. One of the biggest takeaways for you today is that exemptions aren't just unethical, they're not just immoral, they are wrong!
It is totally wrongheaded to think that the government should be telling you, you can claim an exemption from something that you have to inject into your body. That's not where power derives from. It derived from you and your own sovereignty. So just think about the situations where someone else can tell another creature what to put in their bodies.
They can if they own them, right? So that's the way it was in slavery. They can for livestock and cattle. Literally, this is what they're consigning us to when they suggest that "we'll just grant you exemptions." It's a life of indentured servitude. So really, contemplate, are we human beings? Are we sovereign? And if you're a legislator, which side of history do you want to be on? Because they're drawing a line in the sand right now. They're dividing this country, and they're literally putting it to us. And at some point, people are going to stand and say, no more. The question is, which side do you want to be on?
I've been involved in the health freedom arena for close to 20 years. Many of you will know that I made a documentary film on vaccines many years ago called The Greater Good. And so I've been watching the evolution of the thinking around exemptions for a very long time. And what I've watched is that what government giveth government can take away.
So this idea that we know you're safe because we've given you an exemption couldn't be more nonsensical. And it's not a question of if; it's a question of when. Because we all know that government is power-hungry, and those in government don't ever yield that power voluntarily. They only yield when they have to, and it's not just government. It's the bureaucracies, right? It's all the agencies, all these people at the Department of Health and Welfare, that can tell you that they're doing what's good for you. We're just concerned about what's good for you, they say. When do they ever say, you know what, we don't need this power or authority anymore? Never.
Bobby Kennedy Jr said about a month or so ago; I can't remember if he tweeted it or where he put it out, but he said no one ever complied their way out of the authoritarianism.
It's incumbent on each and every one of us to stand up and reclaim what is rightfully ours. And that is the power and authority to live our lives the way that we choose and decide what we do and don't allow into our bodies. So I want to talk to you a little bit, a little history lesson real quick, because I think this illustrates so clearly my points about exemptions and why it's so important for legislators, in particular, to understand that they are a very, very bad path to pursue.
It took only eight years in California for them to go from a personal belief exemption, where parents could exempt their children from vaccinations for any reason of their choosing to utter tyranny in California. You can't go to private school or public school unless you submit to the vaccinations schedule unless you can get a health czar at the state of California to sign off on your medical exemption.
And that happened less than eight years, nine years. So in 2011, firstly introduced AB 499, and 499 said that children over 11 could consent to vaccinations for sexually transmitted diseases. 11! So by the time you reach 12, they assume that these children are able to decide what the risks and benefits are of these medical procedures. Even though we know that vaccines injure and kill some recipients.
What was most important, though, was that the legislature in California, the assembly reassured parents, don't worry, we're not going to intrude on family rights. It's just for this situation. It's just for sexually transmitted diseases. A year later, they came back, and they said, we want to make the entire public in California, if they're going to exempt their children from vaccinations, just get a healthcare practitioner to sign off on their personal beliefs. So they basically wanted you to submit to a form of indoctrination where you heard what the state's perspective on the science is and then get that healthcare practitioner to sign that you actually listened to this, but you are resolved in your commitment against the jabs. Basically, self-incriminate yourselves. Of course, we fought it, and it passed anyway, and it passed very much bi-partisan in a partisan manner. At that point, they said, listen, this is just to make sure that you're all educated.
We're not going to take away your right to a personal belief exemption. Three years later, in the 2015-2016 session, they removed that personal belief exemption. They said, you know, listen, okay, we're taking away the personal belief exemption, but for those of you who truly have medical issues, don't worry, we are not going to intrude on a relationship between you and your healthcare practitioner. We're not going to interfere with this isn't about taking away medical exemptions. That's not what we're doing.
A year later, actually, I think it might've been that same session. They tried to pass the children's bill of rights. I just want you guys to understand this because it illustrates the thinking of these people. They tried to pass the children's bill of rights. And this bill said that your child has the right to proper medical treatment, the right to proper education, and the right to proper parenting. Who decides all of those things?
Thankfully it didn't pass, but you have to understand that this is part of the plan, right? That government is the parent. So in 2019, very conveniently, before this whole latest chapter in our history, they passed SB 276, which removed the medical exemptions. Basically, it's impossible to get a medical exemption for your child in California unless your child has already had a catastrophic reaction, and it has to be signed by someone in the governor's administration. There's like a health czar. They also restricted who can write medical exemptions, which then have to get signed off on, and doctors who write more than five in one year get hauled in front of the state licensing board for review. If there are too many in a school, there's an investigation.
In the fall of 2019, they passed AB262. Now, this is one of the most extraordinary pieces of legislation perhaps ever passed in this country. It says the local health officer can enact any means necessary. Any! In any disease outbreak in pursuant to public health, they actually suspended the rules of the California assembly in order to ram that through in September or October of 2019.
Audience: Wow.
Leslie: Very interesting timing. So we went from, in 2011, don't worry. We're not going to intrude on family rights, too; we're going to do exactly that. In fact, we're going to destroy your rights as families, and we're not going to intrude in medical decisions, and we're not going to take your right to exceptions away, to exactly that. Now children in California have to be homeschooled if they want to avoid these liability-free medical products called vaccines. That's the only way around it. And that happened literally between 2011 and 2019, 8 years. So when someone tells you that you can get an exemption, please remember California. And it didn't just happen to California; similar things happened in New York.
They suspended the rules of the New York assembly as well in order to ram through their removal of rights in 2019, interestingly. They've done it in other states as well. And they will come here because they can't have people who are free and healthy because it proves the fallacy of safe and effective. There are hundreds of jabs that are in research and development. We have said for more than ten years this is not just about children, that if you didn't do something and stand up, they were coming for you too. That day is here.
Audience: They are firing people at the INEL right now. What do you mean this was happening in California? It's happening right here in Idaho.
Leslie: It sure is. Idaho, St. Luke's, INEL, and lots of places. It's outrageous. People need to stand up and fight because if they do, there is power in numbers. These businesses do back down. They do.
Canada is one of the worst places on the planet right now. And they just backed down about truckers because the truckers said, we're not doing this.
I'm not saying it's easy, folks, don't misunderstand me one second. We face literally an existential threat. But one thing is sure, and that is if you don't stand up and if you don't stand together, we will fall. The only solution or for people to rise and to stand together.
So another thing I want to unpack for you is a lawsuit, a Supreme Court case called Jacobson versus Massachusetts. This has been used as a justification for the government to literally plunge a needle into your arm. Alan Dershowitz, who's a Harvard Law constitutional law scholar, supposedly, actually said in a debate that if the government wants, Jacobson versus Massachusetts says that they can take you to the doctor and literally plunge a needle into your arm if it's for public health. That is not what Jacobson says at all. And there are many legislators I know who think that Jacobson says lots of things that it doesn't say. So I want you all to know what exactly it says and what it is not. Because it is not blanket power to the government to do anything it wants, it's the seminal case on mandatory vaccination.
But it happened in 1905. It was heard in 1905. The key issues in front of the board were how much power does the state have versus the authority of the federal government. And most importantly, the rights of the individual versus the community. Now Scott has ruled that this Massachusetts statute, which was not statewide, it was in one little area in one town, Cambridge. Then if it wasn't contrary to federal law and that pastor Jacobson's rights must yield to the community based on the facts of the case. So let's talk about what the facts of the case were. First of all, it revolved around smallpox. Does that sound like Covid, 30 to 40% death rate? I know it's been exaggerated, but it's nowhere near that. Even for the elderly, it's about 3%, as long as they're not in a care home. For children, it's basically zero. So in smallpox, the local board of health can issue a narrow local rule for public health. That's what they said in 1905, but they said only under the pressure of great danger. Does that sound like what we're facing today? The court was very clear that this was not blanket authority for government to do anything it wanted.
And the court also said that it was very clear that individuals have the right to challenge it. So what happened in Jacobson is that they concluded very clearly that, no, the government doesn't have a right to plunge a needle into your arm. In fact, Jacobson and his son were fined $5 each, which is about $145 today. They weren't forced to be jabbed. They could pay a fine, and they did that.
It's also clear from Jacobson that any mandate if there ever exists one, must require that there is a grave danger and that if you are a reasonable regulation. Plunging a needle into your arm is not a reasonable regulation. So basically, what happened with Jacobson balanced the interest of public health versus the liberty interests of the individual. In the case of smallpox. It doesn't apply to the flu or colds, or common respiratory diseases. It doesn't apply to most diseases. It only applies in a really grave situation. And I'm going to explain to you in a second why it doesn't even apply in those situations today because we know so much more than that court did in 1905.
Very importantly, Jacobson does not, and never did, suspend the Constitution in a pandemic. Nowhere does it suggest that the authority of the government is so great that you lose all of your rights just because there's a disease outbreak, nowhere. It certainly doesn't justify a federal mandate.
Justice Gorsuch wrote in a case a few months ago, and I think it was in January of 2021, the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York versus Cuomo. Why has some mistake in this court's modest decision in Jacobson for a towering authority that overshadows the Constitution during the pandemic? Because this is what's happening in several instances, and it's wrong. It's just wrong. If people read it in black and white. So let's just talk about how the world has changed since 1905 because I'm sure that once you put Jacobson in context, you'll understand that it should not be the authority in 2022. Back in 1905, a lot of women here, we didn't have the right to vote, did we? Do we think that law should apply today? There was racial segregation, Jim Crow laws. Medicine used mercury for syphilis and lots of other things. They put in teething powder for babies. People drank radium water, literally radiated water. They used morphine for teething babies. They literally lysol'd laboring women to sterilize them.
They sedated them too. Clearly, these are all insane, right? Insane practices. And thank goodness for science that we've moved forward and that we recognize the error of those ways. Why are people clinging to Jacobson? When we know that the smallpox vaccination was incredibly dangerous now, we do know that.
It's time to move on, is what I would suggest to you. So Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a case called Buck V Bell; we've seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sapped the strength of the state for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence; it is better for all the world.
If, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility that society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind, this is the Supreme Court writing this, folks. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes.
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough," wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1927. How many of us think that this should still be operative today? The insanity of living in the world of 1905 and pretending that Jacobson should be in power today is hard to underestimate. It's just staggering.
The Nuremberg Code how many people actually read the Nuremberg Code? It's long, this is just one little piece of it, but I really want to read it to you folks. 1947, of course, after the atrocities of the Nazi crime machine were revealed, the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have the legal capacity to give consent and should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior forms of constraint or coercion. Do you think losing your job is a little duress, stressful, or overreaching?
Or other ulterior forms of constraint or coercion. And should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and life decision.
Medicine must be voluntary, folks, in order to be ethical. And that was very, very clear in 1947. In 1964, the declaration of Helsinki, which was, put on by the World Medical Association, said that human subjects must be volunteers and informed participants in research, but the UNESCO declaration of bioethics and human rights in 2005 went much further and said any preventive diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention, that means any medical intervention, is only to be carried out with the prior free and informed consent of a person concerned based on adequate information.
Have you all seen the video that Miste Karlfeldt put out where she gets the package insert from one of these COVID injections? She opens it up, and it's like this big two-sided, and it's blank! How would someone give voluntary informed consent when the package insert is blank? Why is this information being hidden from the public? Why did FDA's lawyers request that the court give them 75 years to release the trial data for the Pfizer jabs? Thankfully it was denied, but the fact that they even think this was okay suggests that in and of itself is a crime against humanity, is it not? Deliberately withholding the information from billions of people? So what else has happened? I really want to paint this picture for you that the world has changed in the late seventies and, early nineties, early eighties. Many children were being catastrophically injured, brain-damaged, and killed by the whole-cell diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccination, and they sued! They sued the pharmaceutical industry and then won large jury awards. Juries found that the shots were not safe, and the vaccine makers were liable, and they awarded them tens of millions of dollars in some cases. The pharmaceutical industry didn't like that. So they went to Congress and said, we're going to stop making these jabs if you won't give us liability protection. And Congress consented, they agreed, they signed, they passed the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which provided the pharmaceutical industry with blanket immunity from liability, but also set up a no-fault program to compensate the victims of vaccine injury.
Most importantly, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 86 recognizes that vaccines injure and kill some recipients. This was major. This was legislation of major importance, right? So we now know we've gone from 1905 to 1986, and now we're admitting in Congress that vaccines injure and kill some people. Jacobson doesn't account for that, doesn't acknowledge that, and doesn't even know anything about that. How could it possibly be operative today? What happened as a result of that Act is what we're experiencing right now. Because with unfettered access to funds, cause the pharmaceutical industry has no liability, they tripled that vaccine schedule for children.
I'm a little bit away from my 58th birthday. I was born in 1964. When I went to college and business school, I didn't have to get any jabs, but these kids do now. And let me tell you, in 1982, when I graduated from high school, it was not like kids were dropping dead across the country, and we had public health issues. This has not been about that. This is about power and money for the pharmaceutical industry. But subscribing to Jacobson is deluding ourselves that this Act doesn't exist. And when we look at the shots today, these COVID injections, it's important that you all understand that they are not FDA-approved. I know we're being told they're FDA-approved. I know that's what the media is saying, but it's not true, okay? The only shots available in the United States today are emergency use authorized, and emergency use authorized products carry within the right by federal law to accept or refuse.
It says it right there, and the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. And it also says if any emergency use authorization documentation they were all given, they are pretending that the Pfizer shot has been FDA approved, and they're doing that so that people will be dupped into getting it. While Pfizer retains liability protection under the EUA because under than Prep Act, any emergency use authorized products are liability-free. That's what the Prep Act says. You can't sue the doctor, the hospital, the manufacturer, nobody. So it's very clear that the world has changed a tremendous amount since 1905.
I now want to segue into what we know about these jabs and what we know about this disease because I hope that understanding it will allay people's fear and empower them to stand up for their beliefs. I want to preface my coming comments. By saying that, I do not for a second undercount or minimize the tragedy that's befallen anybody as a result of COVID-19, anybody who died, anybody who's injured, anybody, my heart goes out to them. I have a family member who the hospital says died from it. I'm not minimizing that, but like in life, all things are more dangerous for some than for others. My father-in-law's 84 years old. It's ridiculous for you to assume that me getting the flu is the same risk as him getting the flu. But does that mean I want to destroy my son's life for that? So let's just talk about what the facts are, and the facts are clear. This is according to professor John Ioannidis of Stanford, who is reputed to be one of, if not the best, epidemiologist in the world. He's analyzed the data, and this data is all from before the jabs were introduced, just so you know. COVID-19 is not dangerous for most people, he says. If you're under 20, your chance of dying from this is better than getting struck by lightning. You're more likely to get struck by lightning as an under 20 but even the elderly. It's not what we've been told, folks. CDC just came out saying that more than 75% of the people who succumbed had four or more comorbidities; they were unwell. So if you are elderly 70 or older and you are not living in a care home, you have a 97.1% survival rate. If you're in a care home, that's the 4.9, which is for all for over 70's. It's very interesting what's happening in the last week or so, folks, maybe two weeks. There's a shift in the narrative all over the media. In the last couple of days, I've been talking about how we're just going to have to live with COVID, whether you've been jabbed or not. We're all going to get COVID, they're saying. Is that interesting? That's what we were saying a year ago when we were called conspiracy theorists. So CDC director, she came out a few days ago, and she said that an overwhelming number of deaths who are 75% were people with four or more comorbidities.
And she said they were not, well. They were not well. Did they die with or from COVID because of? Not only is it not dangerous for most people, but early treatment works. Something that the Supreme Court completely disregarded in its consideration yesterday. We know from hundreds, if not thousands, of doctors that early treatment works. There are books. Dr.
Tyson and Fareed have treated thousands and thousands of patients. There are many other doctors who treated thousands of patients. Most of those doctors had treated thousands of patients with zero to very, very few fatalities at all. But what does kill, Remdesivir. It's deadly; it's such a deadly drug. It's an Ebola drug, and it's such a deadly drug that they stopped the Ebola study, putting the Ebola patients in a trial because it killed over 50% of the patients. It's too dangerous for Ebola patients; why don't we get it for something most people are going to survive?
I'm not going to go into detail on these folks. I just want people to understand the major things, right? I know a lot of you probably do. Something that's very important, Dr. Peter McCullough has said that 85% of the deaths could have been prevented, so more than what CDC has said. And if they say that, they absolutely could have been prevented. So let's just take that number. What is that? We're talking about a normal seasonal flu. If you take out all but 85% of deaths, and of course, what else really injured these people and killed people? Ventilation. As I'm sure you know, ventilating tens of thousands of patients. These are the problems.
So, my general counsel, George Wentz, wrote an amazing Amicus brief that he submitted to the Supreme Court talking about natural immunity and, importantly, that these aren't actually vaccines. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Harvey Risch, and many others submitted other Amicus briefs. I think there were at least three, maybe four, Amicus briefs submitted, and you know what? They detailed all of these things I'm talking about. They detailed hundreds of studies. There were like 145 or 150 studies showing that natural immunity not only exists but that it's superior to any immunity derived from jabs. If there is any, and yet it's disregarded. And this is what I find the most frustrating. And, but also perhaps illuminating, the Supreme Court disregarded all that information; they did not acknowledge it in any way. They even, in their opinion, that it was legal for the federal government to mandate the jabs for healthcare workers, for anybody who gets CMS funds, Medicare, and Medicaid funds. They actually said that, you know, that these things to prevent transmission and infection. They don't, that's admitted by federal health authorities, and yet these justices don't know this, that suggests to me it's not about the truth. It's not about science. It's not about our well-being, but coming back to natural immunity, it is very clear with Delta. They said it was about a 0.008% chance of getting re-infected. If you've had it with Omnicron, I've read it as high as 4%. It's still very, very low. Natural immunity is legitimate. And not only that, it doesn't hurt you the way that the jabs can.
CDC has admitted that the jabs don't create immunity. That's why I don't call them vaccines, cause they're not vaccines! Fauci has admitted it. Walensky said what the vaccines can't do anymore- back in August is prevent transmission. That was against Delta, not even Omnicron. Fauci says we know as a fact that vaccinated people are capable of transmitting the infection to someone else. They have more in their noses than the unvaxxed. If they don't create immunity, there simply is no public health justification or a business justification either.
I want to take a little bit of a diversion here really quick on the whole business. I hear many people in the Liberty movement say businesses are private property and they can do whatever they want. They can make their employees they can require whatever they want of their employees. Do you think a court would uphold them to require you to cut your right arm off? Would have court uphold that you have to take Prozac in order to be employed somewhere? What about abort a baby? If a business really had that kind of power and authority over you, we don't live in a free country. Private property does not give them the right to harm someone else. That is one of the most misguided notions I've ever heard. And yet a lot of people say it. I couldn't disagree with it more. And in this situation, given that these are just medical treatments, there are therapeutics, there is no public health justification, and there's certainly no business justification. But if we're going to seed that kind of power authority to a business, we've got some major problems in front of us.
So CDC changed the definition of vaccination this year- last year, it's now 2022. They specifically said, well, it used to be, if you got immunity from a jab, it's actually prevented you from getting the disease in question. Imagine that they actually said that a vaccine stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease. Produce immunity. That's the critical component. And that had been the situation for many, many years. A couple of months ago, they changed this, and they said that a vaccination is a preparation used to stimulate your immune response. Nothing in there about immunity, is there? Nothing in there about preventing infection, preventing transmission, or anything like that? How can the Supreme Court not know this? They're playing with us, folks.
So there was a study that came out very recently of 145 countries, and he showed that these injections don't just not work; they actually make the situation worse. They exacerbate cases and deaths. Once the jabs were introduced, cases and death rates went up, not down. And we've seen this across the whole world in almost every single country that they've evaluated them in. This was, of course, a huge shock to the researchers, but they actually wrote the truth, and many, many studies are reinforcing these results. The more jabs, the worse things get.
This is one of the most important slides. So on the left, we see the Pfizer shot, and on the right, we see the Moderna shots. And what you see is the vertical bars are one to 30 days, 31 to 60, 61 to 90, and then 91 to 150 days for each of the respective shots. And what they're showing you is the number of what they call breakthrough cases. I call that vaccine failure; talk about euphemism. What's really important is that you can see that the further out you go, once you get to 91 days, you are more likely to get the shot. That's what the bar down below the dotted line shows. Then if you never got the shot, you're up above the little blue dots. Okay, does that make sense?
And if you got the shot, your likelihood, you're almost twice as likely to get it as if you didn't get the shot, negative efficacy. You never, ever, ever want a drug that gives negative efficacy, right? You don't want to take something that's going to make you more likely to get sick and more susceptible, and that's exactly what these jabs do.
This is data from Denmark. It's not just there; it's many other countries. They're seeing the same thing, which is why now, Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough say that you are more likely, every single age group is more likely to suffer, to die from the shots than they are from actually getting COVID at every age group, it's not just the young people.
My big message is these things are dangerous. It's not a benign medical intervention. And we know this from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, which was set up by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. It's a passive system, meaning that it's voluntary. Although physicians are required by law to submit reports to it, most of them don't do it. The system is onerous. They don't participate but despite all the problems. There have been through December 31st. So this is like 12 months. And what was it about two weeks, there've been 700 or 700,000 reports, adverse reactions to just these jabs, 63,000 of those- and this is just for the United States. So people from abroad can also report because it's a voluntary system, and so you can double most of these numbers. It's a little over a million. If you include foreign for total reports, series of reports, there's a hundred thousand that are from abroad, but there are also some monkey games. And there are some researchers who believe that reports are flagged as possibly flagged as foreign in order to hide some of them. So, you know, treat them a little bit suspect. Forty-five thousand hospitalizations and 10,000 deaths in the United States, but here's the most important thing, and that is that federal research has already found very clearly that, by and large, fewer than 1% of all vaccine reactions are ever connected to the jabs themselves and therefore reported fewer than 1%.
Audience: I've heard data on VAERS that only 3% of all the cases are actually reported. It's very, very low.
Leslie: There's some research that it's 1% there's research, and it's 10%, there are all kinds, but there was a federal federally funded research with Harvard Pilgram HMO that found that fewer than 1% of all reactions were reported. 85% of the reports in VAERS were made by medical professionals. So a lot of people say, oh, VAERS isn't legitimate, don't pay attention to that, you know, anybody can report. But for COVID, 85% of the reports were made by healthcare practitioners. And here's the most dynamic thing. The vast majority of injuries happened on the day of the injection or within three days of that. That's really important because a temporal association can prove causation.
Now, I want to show you some slides that will really drive that point home. Eight thousand reports of eye problems. Does anything strike you about that chart? It all happens, 65% within 24 hours. No one can say that it's not because of the jab.
The first one was eye problems. These are ear problems. Seven hundred thousand cases of ear problems were reported, 67% in 24 hours. This stuff is from Jessica Rose, an amazing researcher who's done a deep dive on VAERS. She's incredible, and she has a sub-stack account. Female reproductive issues. I have a family member who didn't get the jab but lived with two young women who had huge period problems for a few months until she moved out. And I have a family member who did get the jab and has, within a short period of time, had menstrual issues with young people. Now we know from the distribution reports that were FOIA'd in Japan that the number one organ into which the lipid nanoparticles accumulate is the ovaries. Just to caution you, they only looked at those distribution reports. They only evaluated the recipients, the animals, for 48 hours. So that data is only based on what happens in 48 hours, not over the long-term, but the number one place that they go is the ovaries. And, of course, the ovaries are responsible for regulating menses.
So if somebody says to you that these things are not causing these problems, these charts suggest otherwise. And when we look at Idaho, it's really important that people understand that the data is being reported at the state level, and the data that's being reported in the media health authorities is deeply compromised. And why do I say that? This is why we submitted a public records request, and we asked them for the data for deaths and cases in vaccinated, partially vaccinated, and wholly unvaccinated. And you know what they said? We don't keep that data. So what we just looked at, think about all those charts. All those charts, it's all happening within the first 72 hours, right? Anybody in Idaho who is less than two weeks past their second jab is deemed unvaccinated. So all those cases in the hospital of unvaccinated people, how many of them are suffering a reaction from the jab? This is not honest, folks. Other countries are not doing it, but we are. They should be releasing this information so we understand who is partially and who is totally unjabbed, but they're not.
I'm going to close with this slide. There's a life insurance company called One America in Indiana, and this is such staggering information. I really want you all to test it. It's a life insurance company, a hundred billion dollar life insurance company, not a small company, okay. They sell life insurance to companies that employ people. And that's why the data set is 18-64 because that's the working population for the most part, and what have they found? In 2021, there was a 14% increase in death in those who are aged 18 to 64. Inexplicable. It's a huge spectrum of deaths. Now to put it in context, what the CEO of the company said, this is a 12 Sigma event meeting standard deviation was 12 standard deviations away from what would be considered normal. Now I read- Steve Kirsch wrote that a 12 Sigma effect size is twice as old as what scientists say the age of the earth is okay for this to happen; it's impossible that this could happen. Unless something caused it and something that was affecting millions and millions of people so that it could affect all of those people, okay, so as it says, a 3 Sigma event would be a 10% increase from baseline, and this number barely changes over the years, they're extremely consistent for decades, and we're talking about a 40% increase. Think about that. Now we do know there's the European Medicines Agency came out about three days ago- First of all, a couple of weeks ago, they said that you're going to have to start getting a booster every three months, but a few days ago, they came out, and they said, actually boosters might be dangerous.
The World Health Organization came out a few days ago, shortly after that, I think the following day, and said essentially the same thing. That booster programs may be unsustainable and problematic. So here's the thing, folks. We now know that these jabs undermine our immune systems. So what is going to happen over time? Nobody knows the biggest experiments in human history, probably, right? But we've got enough data here that the cautionary principle should be employed. And if I were a legislator in Idaho, I wouldn't want to just be protecting the citizens of Idaho by not creating exemptions. I'd be trying to find a way to get this off the market because that's what needs to happen.
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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR OF 1898. For the causes leading up to the war see Cuba and United States: History. On the 15th of February 1898 the U.S. battleship "Maine," which had been sent to Havana on the 25th of January, was destroyed in Havana harbour by an explosion, with a loss of 266 lives. An American board of inquiry, of which Captain W. T. Sampson was president, made an extensive examination of the wreck, and reported to the navy department on the 21st of March that the explosion was caused by an exterior mine, the principal reason for this decision being the upheaval of the ship's bottom.[1] On the 20th of April President McKinley approved a resolution demanding the withdrawal of Spain from Cuba and setting noon of the 23rd of April as the latest date for a reply to the demand. Before this could be delivered by the American minister in Madrid, the Spanish government sent him his passports. On the 22nd the president declared a blockade of Cuban ports; on the 24th the Spanish government declared war; and on the 25th the United States Congress declared that war had existed since the 21st.
The American government had begun to prepare for war as early as January: ships on several foreign stations had been drawn nearer home, and those in Chinese waters were collected at Hong-Kong; the North Atlantic squadron, the only powerful one, had been sent from Hampton Roads into the waters of Florida for manoeuvres; after the destruction of the " Maine " the chief part of the ships in the Atlantic were concentrated at Key West ; the battleship "Oregon" was ordered east from the Pacific; $50,000,000 was voted (March 9) " for the national defence "; steps were taken to purchase auxiliary cruisers, yachts and tugs, which were rapidly equipped; large supplies of ammunition were ordered, and Key West became an active base of preparation; Captain Sampson, senior officer of the North Atlantic squadron, was appointed its commander-in-chief with rank of acting rear- admiral; and a " flying squadron " composed of the armoured cruiser " Brooklyn " (flag), the battleships " Texas " and " Massachusetts," and the fast cruisers " Minneapolis " and " Columbia," with Commodore W. S. Schley in command, was stationed at Hampton Roads.
There was a great preponderance of large ships on the side of the United States; only in torpedo craft and small gunboats was Spain superior. The- American ships were highly efficient; in Spain everything was unready; Admiral Cervera felt that to send a Spanish squadron across the Atlantic was to send it to destruction, and when he had collected his squadron (including two cruisers from Havana) at the Cape Verde Islands in March, he renewed his expostulations, in which he was supported by a council of war. But on the 24th of April he was peremptorily ordered to leave for Porto Rico, without definite instructions or plan of campaign.
The American flying squadron was held at Hampton Roads, so great was the fear of attack by Spanish ships; and armed auxiliaries and fast cruisers were employed in patrolling the coast east of New York; these could have rendered good service else- where, but would have been of no use in repelling an attack by Cervera's squadron had it come that way.
The joint resolution of Congress of the 20th of April had declared that the relinquishment by Spain of authority in Cuba was the object of American action; the struggle thus naturally centred about the island. All operations were thus near at hand, Havana, the real objective in Cuba, being only about 100 m. from Key West. A political reason for confining action to the western Atlantic was that an immediate attack upon the coasts of Spain might have aroused the strongly pro-Spanish sympathy of continental Europe into greater activity. The regular United States army, the only available force until wax was declared and a volunteer force was authorized, had been assembled at lampa, Florida, New Orleans and Chickamauga, Georgia, but until the control of the sea was decided, the army could not prudently be moved across the Strait of Florida. Cervera's fleet was thus the real objective of the navy, and had to be settled with before any military action could be undertaken.
Rear-Admiral Sampson left Key West early on the 22nd, and began the blockade of Havana and the north coast of Cuba as far as Cardenas, 80 m. east, and Bahia Honda, 50 m. west. His North Atlantic squadron of 28 vessels of all kinds, of which the armoured cruiser "New York" (flag), the battleships "Iowa" and "Indiana," and the monitors "Puritan," "Terror" and "Amphitrite," were the most important, and which included six torpedo-boats, was increased to 1 24 vessels by the 1st of July, chiefly by the addition of extemporized cruisers, converted yachts, &c.
In the Pacific, the American squadron — the protected cruisers "Olympia" (flagship of Commodore George Dewey), "Baltimore," "Raleigh" and "Boston," the small unprotected cruiser "Concord," the gunboat " Petrel," the armed revenue cutter "Hugh M'Culloen," with a purchased collier "Nanshan" and a purchased supply ship "Zafiro"— left Hong-Kong at the request of the governor and went to Mirs Bay, some miles east on the Chinese coast. Ordered (April 25) to begin operations, particularly against the Spanish fleet, which he was directed to capture or destroy, Dewey left Mirs Bay on the 27th, and arrived off Luzon, in the Philippines, on the 30th of April. The Spanish admiral Montojo anchored to the eastward of the spit on which are the village and arsenal of Cavite, in a general east and west line, keeping his broadside to the northward. His force consisted of the "Reina Cristina," the "Castilla" (an old wooden steamer which had to be towed); the "Isla de Cuba" and "Isla de Luzon" (protected cruisers of 1050 tons); the "Don Juan de Austria" and the "Don Antonio de Ulloa" (gunboats of about 1150 tons), and the "Marques del Duero" (of 500 tons). There were six guns (3 breech-loaders) in battery at or near Cavite.
Dewey stood on during the night, and passed into the Boca Grande (about 5 m. broad), paying no attention to rumours of torpedoes in a channel so broad and deep, and at MaaUa" midnight passed El Fraile (a large rock, if 2½ m. from the south side), from which two shots were fired at him, and he was also fired at by the "Cavite" and one of the city batteries. When he sighted the Spanish squadron to the southward Le ordered his transports and the revenue cutter "Hugh M'Culloch" out into the hay, and stood down in column with the "Olympia," "Baltimore," "Raleigh," "Petrel," " Concord " and " Boston " at 400-yd. intervals. When within 5000 yds. he ported his helm, and at 5.41 a.m. opened fire. He stood westwards along the Spanish line, using his port batteries, turned to starboard and stood back, gradually decreasing his distance to 2000 yds. At 7 o'clock the Spanish flagship attempted to come out and engage at short range, but was driven back by the American fire. The Spanish squadron was now in very bad plight, but the seriousness of its condition was not fully known to the American commander. At 7.35 Dewey withdrew, gave his men breakfast, and had a consultation of commanding officers. Before he re-engaged at 11. 16 the "Cristina" and " Castilla " had broken into flames, so that the remainder of the action consisted in silencing the Cavite batteries and completing the destruction and demoralization of the smaller Spanish ships, which the "Petrel" was ordered in to burn. The victory was complete. All the Spanish ships[2] were sunk or destroyed. The injury done the American ships was practically nil. The Spanish lost 167 killed and 214 wounded, out of a total of 1875. The Americans had 7 slightly wounded out of 1748 men in action. Dewey took possession of Cavite, paroled its garrison, and awaited the arrival of a land force to capture Manila.
The blockade of Havana had progressed without incident, beyond the capture of a number of Spanish steamers and sailing vessels,[3] and the shelling of some new earthworks Blockade. at Matanzas on the 27th of April; but on the nth of May a small action was fought at Cardenas, in which the Americans were repulsed and Ensign Worth Bagley, the first American officer to lose his life in the war, was killed. On the same day a partially successful attempt was made, under a heavy fire from the shore, to cut the cable between Cienfuegos and Havana.
Cervera had left the Cape Verde Islands on the 29th of April with four armoured cruisers, the "Almiiante Oquendo," "Infanta Maria Theresa" and " Vizcaya " (sister ships of 7000 tons) and the " Cristobal Colon " (same size; differently equipped) and three torpedo-boat destroyers — a type not then represented in the American navy — "Furor," "Terror" and "Pluton." On hearing (May 1) of Cervera's departure, Sampson went east 1000 m. to San Juan, Porto Rico, with the armoured cruiser "New York," the battleships " Iowa " and " Indiana," the cruisers "Montgomery " and " Detroit," and one torpedo-boat. In going east he calculated on using a speed of 10 knots, on getting to San Juan on the 8th, about the time the Spaniards would reach its longitude, and if they were not there, on returning off Havana before they could get to Havana harbour. He wished to prevent Cervera's refitting at San Juan, from which place the American coast would be within easy reach, New York being only about 1400 m. away. But the speed of the American squadron fell short of Sampson's expectation; he reached San Juan on the 12th, stood in to see if Cervera was in the harbour, and opened fire upon the fortifications. He did not press the attack since Cervera was not present, and at once started back for Havana without news of Cervera, who was then in fact off Martinique, with orders to go to San Juan. When he heard that Sampson was at San Juan, he steamed to Curasao, where he arrived on the 14th of May and where the authorities allowed him to coal. He reached Santiago de Cuba early on the 1 9th without being sighted en route by any of the American scouts, though several were in the vicinity. Sampson thought the Spanish squadron might have returned to Spain.[4] But he learned that the enemy had net turned back, on the night of the 15th, when a telegram from the navy department directed him to proceed with all despatch to Key West. He got there on the afternoon of the 18th, and found the flying The Search squadron ("Brooklyn" (flag), " Massachusetts," forCerrera's " Texas," and " Scorpion "), which left on the next Squadron. morning (19th) for Cienfuegos, then regarded by the navy department as the certain objective of the Spanish squadron. The battleship " Iowa," the gunboat " Castine," the torpedo- boat " Dupont " and the collier " Merrimac " sailed to join Schley on the 20th, and gave him a force sufficient to meet Cervera. Sampson was advised by the department (on the 20th) to " send by the ' Iowa ' to Schley to proceed off Santiago de Cuba with his whole command, leaving one small vessel off Cienfuegos," but he directed Schley in an order of the 21st if he was satisfied that Cervera was not at Cienfuegos, to proceed with all despatch to Santiago, and if the Spanish squadron was there, to blockade it.
Commodore Schley arrived off Cienfuegos on the 22nd, and held to the opinion that Cervera was there until the 24th, when Commodore M'Calla of the "Marblehead" communicated with the insurgents some miles westwards, and learned the truth. Schley sHrted that evening for Santiago, 300 m. distant, but on the afternoon of the 26th was 20 m. south of the port. Early on the 27th Schley received a despatch from the navy department suggesting that the Spanish squadron was in Santiago and bidding him see " that the enemy, if therein, does not leave without a decisive action." Schley replied "... cannot remain, off Santiago present state squadron coal account . . . much to be regretted cannot obey orders of department. . . forced to proceed for coal to Key West by way of Yucatan Passage"; in the controversy that arose out of these events Schley's critics insisted that the " Iowa " and the " Massachusetts " bad at this time enough coal to carry them three times the distance from Santiago to Key West.
Sampson with the " New York " had arrived early on the 28th of May off Key West. When Schley's telegram, which had much disturbed the Washington officials, was forwarded to Sampson, he secured permission to go at once to Santiago with the "New York" and "Oregon" (which had arrived at Key West on the 26th of May in excellent condition after her voyage of nearly 16,000 m. from the Pacific) to turn back Schley's heavier ships. Before he started he received a telegram from Schley stating that he would remain off Santiago. It is now known from the documents published by Admiral Cervera that the Spanish squadron, in the interval preceding the 28th, when Schley arrived in sight of the port, was on the point of leaving Santiago. On the morning of the 29th two Spanish cruisers were seen a short distance within the entrance, and on the 31st Schley, with the " Massachusetts," " Iowa " and " New Orleans," stood in and made an attack upon these and the batteries at long range (8500-11,000 yds.). On the 30th Sampson, leaving a squadron on the north side under Commodore Watson, stood for Santiago at a speed of 13 knots. He arrived early on the 1st of June and work was at once begun on the preparations for sinking the collier " Merrimac " in the entrance channel, which was less than 200 ft. broad in parts available for ships. The preparations for a quick sinking were chiefly carried out by naval constructor Richmond P. Hobson, who went in, in the early morning of the 3rd of June, with a crew of seven men. The steering-gear was disabled by a shell, and the ship drifted too far with the tide and was sunk in a broad part of the channel where it did not block the egress of Cervera's squadron. Cervera sent word to Sampson that Hobson and his men, who had been captured, were unhurt. They were exchanged on the 7th of July.
On the 6th of June the batteries at the entrance were bom- barded and their weakness was ascertained. Sampson there- The United u P on placed, every evening, a battleship (relieved states Fleet every two and a half hours) close in, with a search- betore light turned on the channel, making it impossible, as
Santiago, Cervera. afterwards said, for the Spanish squadron to escape by night. The port of Guantanamo, 40 m. east of Santiago, was occupied by the " Marblehead " and " Yankee " on the 7th, a battalion of marines from the transport " Panther" landed there on the 10th, and the port was used thereafter as a base and coaling station. On the 14th the Spanish land forces retired before an expedition of the American marines, who remained in occupation until the 5th of August.
A blockade of San Juan, Porto Rico, by one or two fast ships was kept up on account of the presence there of the destroyer " Terror," but this vessel, coming out (June 22) with a gunboat to attack the auxiliary cruiser " St Paul," suffered so severely that she could hardly return to port, and was thereafter unserviceable.
When war was declared the total military forces of the United States consisted of 27,822 regulars and 114,602 militia. An act of the 22nd of April had authorized the president to call upon the states and Territories for men in proportion to their population, the regimental and company officers to be named by the governors of the states, the general and staff officers by the president. A first call was made for 125,000 men, and a month later a second call for 75,000. On the 26th of April large additions to the regular army were sanctioned for the war. The quotas were filled with extraordinary rapidity, and in May 124,776 had volunteered. The troops were concentrated chiefly at Chicka- mauga, Georgia, at Camp Alger, Virginia, and at Tampa, Florida, Preparations which was selected as the point for the embarcation tor a Land f the expeditionary force for Cuba, and where Campaign. Major-General W., R. Shafter was in command. With the exception of unimportant small expeditions, every- thing was delayed until control of the sea was assured, though some thirty large steamers were held in readiness near Tampa. After the arrival of Cervera at Santiago, the blockade of his squadron and the request (June 7) of Admiral Sampson to send a land force for co-operation, the troops embarked on the 7th and 8th of June, but a start was not made until the 14th, owing to a false report that Spanish war-ships were in Nicholas Channel. On the 29th the fleet of 32 transports, under convoy, arrived off Santiago. The whole force consisted of about 17,000 officers and men, 16 light field-guns, a train of heavier pieces, and some 200 vehicles. General Shafter selected Daiquiri, about 18 m. east of Santiago, for the point of landing, and the harbour entrance (preferred by Sampson) was disregarded. The fleet furnished all its available boats, and on the 2 2nd-2 5th the army was landed on a rough coast with scarcely any shelter from the sea; after the first day Siboney, 7 m. nearer Santiago, was used as well as Daiquiri. With the exception of three volunteer regiments (the 1st Volunteer Cavalry, known as the Rough Riders, of which Theodore Roosevelt was lieutenant-colonel; the 2nd Massachusetts and the 71st New York Volunteers), these troops were composed almost wholly of regulars, most of whom had served on the plains against the Indians. Soon afterwards more voluuteers arrived.
No opposition was made to the landing and the small Spanish contingents at Daiquiri and Siboney were withdrawn without doing
any damage to the equipment of the railway which ran from Santiago to the iron mines at these points. The American troops (commanded by Major-General Joseph Wheeler until the 29th, when General Shafter landed) pushed forward, a soon as they landed, and found a small Spanish rearguard which was covering the concentration of outlying detachments on Santiago and which was entrenched 25 m. beyond Siboney, at Las Guasimas. Briga- dier-General S.B.M. Young with 964 dismounted cavalry engaged (June 24), and after a sharp action, in which he lost 16 killed and 52 wounded, drove back the enemy, of whom n were killed out of some 500 engaged. The advance was slow and a week elapsed before Shafter was ready to fight a battle in front of Santiago. Here the defenders, under General Arsenio Linares, held two positions, the hill of San Juan, barring the direct road to Santiago, and the village of El Caney, to the northward of the American position at El Pozo. The plan of attack on the 1st of July was Shaf ter's, but owing to the illness of Shafter the actual command was exercised by the subordinate generals, Joseph Wheeler, H. W. Lawton and J. F. Kent. General Lawton's division was to attack and capture El Caney, and thence move against the flank and rear of the defenders of San Juan, which would then be attacked in front by Kent and Wheeler from El Pozo. But Lawton for nine hours was checked by the garrison of El Caney, in spite of his great superiority in numbers (4500 to 520); at 3 p.m. the final assault on El Caney was successfully delivered by General A. R. Chaffee's brigade. Only about 100 of the Spanish garrison escaped to Santiago; about 320 were killed or wounded, including General Vara del Rey, who, with a brother and two sons, was killed. In the meantime Wheeler and Kent had an equally stubborn contest opposite San Juan hill, where, in the absence of the assistance of Lawton, the battle soon became a purely frontal-fire fight, and the rifles of the firing line had to prepare the attack unaided. The strong position of the Spaniards, gallantly defended by about 700 men, held out until 12.30, when the whole line of the assailants suddenly advanced, without orders from or direction by superior authority, and carried the crest of the Spanish position. A notable part in the attack was taken by the 1st Volunteer Cavalry or " Rough Riders," commanded by Colonel Leonard Wood and Lieut.-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. The Spaniards had no closed reserves, and their retreat was made under a devastating fire from the Ameri- cans on the captured hills. On the American side over 1500 men out of 15,000 engaged, including several of the senior officers, were killed or wounded; and in one of Kent's brigades three successive commanders were killed or wounded. On the Spanish side, out of the small numbers engaged, over 50% were out of action. Linares himself was severely wounded, and handed over the command to General Jose Toral. The Cubans on the American right failed to prevent General Escario from entering Santiago with reinforcements from the interior, and at the beginning of the investment General Toral's forces numbered about 10,000 men of the army and a naval contingent from the fleet.
Though victorious, the American army was in danger: after great fatigue under a tropical sun by day, the time spared at night from digging trenches was spent on a rain- investment soaked ground covered with thick vegetation; the of Santiago soldiers' blankets and heavy clothing had been cast on the Land aside in the attack; and there was insufficient food, because it was difficult to haul supplies over the one poor road from the base of supplies at Siboney. There was even discussion of retiring to a point nearer Siboney. Brisk firing was continued on the 2nd and 3rd of July, with a considerable number of casualties to the Americans. On the morning of the 3rd a demand was sent to the Spanish commander to surrender, with the alternative of a bombardment of the city to begin on the 4th. This in effect had already begun on the 1st, when Admiral Sampson fired a number of 8-in. shells from a point 3 m. east of the harbour entrance over the hills into the city, using a range of about 4^ land miles. The result of this and the threat of General Shafter was an exodus of many thousands of civilians towards El Caney, where the American supplies were heavily taxed to support them.
On the morning of the 3rd of July Sampson, in his flagship the " New York," left the fleet to confer with General Shaffer at Naval Siboney with regard to combined operations at the
Battieof harbour entrance. 1 At 9.31, when he had gone about Santiago. ^ m ^ t jj e « Maria Teresa " was seen coming out. The ships in front of the port were the yacht " Gloucester," the battle- ships " Indiana," " Oregon," "Iowa," and" Texas," thearmoured cruiser " Brooklyn " and yacht " Vixen," in the order named from east to west, making a semicircle about 8 m. in length. The " Massachusetts " and " Suwanee " were coaling at Guan- tanamo. The " Iowa " hoisted the signal " Enemy coming out." All at once stood in toward the Spanish ships, which were standing westwards along shore, and began a heavy fire. The " Maria Teresa " (flagship) was followed at 800-yd. intervals by the " Vizcaya," " Colon " and " Oquendo." They were firing vigorously, but most of their projectiles went far beyond the American ships. The " Brooklyn " (flag of Commodore Schley, the senior officer present) made a turn to starboard, which seems to have caused the " Texas " to stop and back, and to have given the " Colon " the opportunity of passing almost unscathed. The " Maria Teresa " and " Oquendo " had taken fire almost at once, and, as their water mains (outside the protec- tive deck) were cut, they were unable to extinguish the flames: they were run ashore at 10.15 an d 10.20 respectively, about 6| m. west of Santiago, burning fiercely. The " Vizcaya " and " Colon " were still standing westwards. Cervera's destroyers, the " Pluton " and " Furor," had come out last, some distance behind the " Oquendo," and were received with a heavy fire from the " Indiana " and from the unarmoured " Gloucester," which engaged them at close quarters. They attempted to close, but were cut to pieces. The " New York," Sampson's flagship, had passed, and stood on signalling the " Iowa " and " Indiana " to go back and watch the port, lest an attack be made on the American transports. The torpedo-boat " Erics- son " was ordered to rescue the men from the two Spanish ships ashore, and the flagship, with all the others, stood on in pursuit of the " Vizcaya " and " Colon." The " Vizcaya " hauled down her colours off Aserraderos, 15 nautical miles west of Santiago, and was there run ashore burning about 11.15 a - m - The " Iowa " was ordered to stop and rescue her men. and the " Oregon," " Brooklyn " and " Texas " (and behind them the flagship) settled down to the chase of the " Colon," some 6 m. ahead of the nearest American ship. She was, however, slacking her speed, and at 12.40 the " Oregon " opened with her 13-in. guns at a range of 9000 yds., as did also the " Brooklyn," with her 8-in. When the " Oregon " had fired five shells, the " Colon " hauled down her colours, and was beached at the mouth of the Rio Turquino, where in spite of endeavours to recover her, she became a total wreck. The whole Spanish fleet was destroyed; Admiral Cervera was taken prisoner; Captain Villamil, commanding the torpedo flotilla, went down with his ship: and Captain Lazaga of the " Oquendo " was drowned. Over 500 Spaniards were killed or wounded, and the survivors (except a few who escaped to Santiago) were prisoners. On the American side only one man was killed and ten were wounded, and no ship received serious injury.
After the naval victory combined operations were arranged for attacking the batteries of the harbour, but little more fighting occurred, and eventually a preliminary agreement was signed on the 15th, and the besiegers entered Santiago on the 17th. In accordance with the terms of the capitulation, all the Spanish forces in the division of Santiago de Cuba surrendered and were conveyed to Spain. The total number amounted to about 23,500, of whom some 10,500 were in the city of Santiago. The exposure of the campaign had begun to tell in the sickness of the Americans: yellow fever had broken out to some extent; and no less that 50% were attacked by the milder forms of
1 Shaffer had urged that the squadron should enter the harbour and take the city. Sampson (and the Navy department) was unwilling to risk losing a ship in the well-mined harbour and wanted the army to move on the forts and give the American squadron an opportunity to drag the harbour for mines.
malarial fever. The army, indeed, was so weakened by illness that the general officers united in urging its removal from Cuba. Major-General Nelson A. Miles, the general-in-chief, had arrived with reinforcements on the 12th of July, but the majority of these men were retained on board ship.
The fleet and the army gathered in Guantanamo Bay; and a new flying squadron, the " eastern squadron," was organized under Commodore John C. Watson, to proceed by way of the Mediterranean to the Philippines, threatening the Spanish coast, in order to meet a Spanish " reserve squadron," which had been formed towards the end of May, and which was to be sent on to the eastern coast of the United States, and thence to Cuba, but which was diverted toward the Philippines, and left Cadiz, on the 16th of June, for the East. This squadron turned back on the 8th of July after hearing the news of the Spanish defeat at Santiago.
On the 7th of May a telegram had been received from Dewey at Manila: " I control bay completely, and can take city at any time, but I have not sufficient men to hold." The cruiser " Charleston " and the steamer " Peking," with ammunition, supplies and troops, were sent to him at once. Major-General Wesley Merritt, to whom was assigned the command of the troops for the Philippines, first requested a force of 14,000, and afterwards asked for 20,000 men. On the 25th of May the first troops, 2491 in number, under Brigadier-General T. M.Anderson, sailed in three transports from San Francisco, touched at Hono- lulu, and were convoyed thence by the " Charleston." On the 20th of June possession was taken of the island of Guam, and on the 30th of June the ships arrived in Manila Bay. A second detachment of troops, 3586 in number, under Brigadier-General F. V. Greene arrived on the 17th of July; on the 25th of July General Merritt, who had been appointed governor-general, arrived; and on the 31st the five transports with which he had left San Francisco arrived with 4847 men, making nearly 11,000 men at Manila, with 5000 more on the way. General Merritt moved his forces from Cavite, and established an entrenched line within a thousand yards of the Spanish position at Manila, from which, on the night of the 31st of July, a heavy fire of musketry and artillery was opened, causing a loss to the Americans of 10 killed and 43 wounded, and for the next few days night-firing was frequent from the Spanish lines. On the 7th of August, a joint note from Dewey and Merritt, announcing that bombardment might begin at any time after .
forty-eight hours, and affording opportunity for the Manila," removal of non-combatants, was sent to the Spanish captain-general, Fermin Jaudenes, who replied that he was surrounded by the insurgents, 2 and that there was no place of refuge for the sick and for the women and children. A second joint note demanding surrender was declined by the Spanish commander, who offered to refer it to Madrid. This was refused, and preparations were made for an attack. There were 13,000 troops within the city fortifications, but with the strong fleet in front, and with the beleaguering force of Americans and insur- gents ashore, resistance was hopeless. When the combined assault of army and navy was made on the 13th there was no great resistance, and a white flag was hoisted at n o'clock, within one and a half hours after the fleet opened fire, a formal capitulation being signed the next day, the 14th of August. The total loss of the Americans during the whole campaign was 20 killed, 105 wounded.
Immediately after the surrender of Santiago (July 17), preparations were made for the invasion of Porto Rico with 3500 troops which had been sent as reinforcements operations to Santiago, but had not landed. They were largely in Porto reinforced and left Guantanamo, under General RIc0 ' Miles, on the 21st of July, convoyed by a strong squadron. 2 On the 19th of May, Emilio Aguinaldo, who had been at Hong-Kong, had landed from one of the American vessels at Cavite, and on the 1st of July, when the American troops landed, had proclaimed himself president of the Philippine Republic. The political attitude which he assumed was not sanctioned by the American autnoritiesi At the head of the insurgents he had instituted a close siege of Manila. Fajardo, at the extreme north-eastern end of the island, was given out as the objective point of the expedition, but after sailing the plans were changed, and the towns on the south side were occupied, practically without resistance. The attitude of the population was exceedingly friendly, and opposition was not met until advance was begun northward. The troops were divided into four columns, advancing from Guanica around the western end of the island to Mayaguez: from Arroyo at the eastern end to meet the San Juan road at Cayey; from Ponce by the fine military road, 70 m., to San Juan; and the fourth column by way of Adjuntas and Utuado, midway of the island. The various movements involved several skirmishes, the chief op- position being met by the western column on the 10th of August, and by the column from Ponce on the 9th, when the Americans lost 1 killed and 22 wounded; the Spanish, 126 killed and wounded, and over 200 prisoners. A further advance on the San Juan highway would probably have developed greater resistance, but news of the suspension of hostilities intervened. The total American loss had been 3 killed and 40 wounded. On the 1 2th of August operations were begun by the " Newark " and other vessels against Manzanillo. But during the night news arrived of the signing of the peace protocol on the 12th, and of an armistice, of which the Americans were informed by the Spanish commander under a flag of truce.
The total American loss was— in the navy, 1 officer, 17 men killed; in the army, 20 officers, 440 men. The health of the American fleet was kept remarkably. Its average Americans — strength during the 114 days of hostilities was 26,102; the deaths from disease during this time were 56, or at the rate of 7 per 1000 per year. As nearly the whole of the service was in the tropics, and in the summer or wet season, this is a convincing proof of the efficiency in sanitary administration. The army did not fare so â– well, losing by disease during May, June, July and August, 67 officers and 1872 men out of an average total of 227,404. Its larger proportion of illness must of course be ascribed, in part, to its greater hardships. The war department was accused of gross maladministration; but the charges were not upheld by an investigating committee. The lack of proper preparation by the war department and the ignorance and thoughtlessness of the volunteers were the principal reasons for the high death-rate in the army.
For the terms of the peace and the results of the war see United States; Philippine Islands; Cuba; Porto Rico.
The literature of the Spanish-American War is voluminous: amongst the principal sources of information may be mentioned; The annual reports of various departments for 1898, especially the War Notes of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Washington, which include Spanish translations, and the appendix to the report of the Bureau of Navigation ; R. H. Titherington, A History of the Spanish-American War (New York, 1900); H. C. Lodge, Story of the Spanish War (New York, 1899); H. W. Wilson, The Downfall of Spain (London, 1900); W. A. M. Goode, With Sampson through the War (London, 1899) ; J. Wheeler, Santiago Campaign (Philadelphia, 1899); Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders (New York, 1899); C. D. Sigsbee, Personal Narratives of the Battleship Maine (New York, 1899); R. A. Alger, Spanish-American War (New York, 1900); Gomez Nunez, La Guerra hispano-americana (Madrid, 1900) ; H. Kunz, Taktische Beispiele aus den Kriegen der Neuesten Zeit II. (Berlin, 1901); Admiral Pluddemann, Der Krieg um Cuba i8q8 (Berlin); John D Long, The New American Navy (2 vols., New York, 1903); John R. Spears, Our Navy in the War with Spain (ibid., 1898); Bujac, Precii de quelques campagnes contemporaines, IV. (Paris, 1899); and the Century and Scribner's magazines for 1898 and 1899 passim.
↑ The Spanish authorities made an examination, but did not inspect the interior, the chief diver reporting that " the bilge and keel of the vessel throughout its entire extent were buried in the mud, but did not appear to have suffered any damage." It has been suggested that the explosion was the work of Cuban "sympathizers who thus planned to secure American assistance against Spain. It was not until iqio that Congress made an appropriation (and an inadequate one then) for raising the " Maine."
↑ Three of the best were afterwards raised and repaired by American engineers.
↑ 'The " Buenaventura," the first prize of the war, was taken by the gunboat " Nashville " off Key West on the 23rd of Aprii.
↑ A telegram (not received by Cervera) had been sent to Martinique on the 12th of May, authorizing the squadron's return.
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IEBC to undertake Children Assembly election
KNA3 April 18, 2022 Counties, Editor's Pick, Nairobi, Social 0
Children in Nairobi County are set to hold the Children Assembly tomorrow, Tuesday April 19, to air views on issues affecting them and to elect their leaders at an event that will be held at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD).
The three-day event which starts on April 19th to 21st this year, will see the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) conduct the Assembly's election where the children will vote to elect governors, deputy governors, speaker, clerk and Sergeant at Arms and 44 delegates who will be in office for a term of two years.
The on-going elections has seen at least 11 sub counties within Nairobi among them Mathare, Makadara, Njiru, Kibera, Langata, Dagoretti, Kasarani and Embakasi elect their representatives.
Speaking to KNA on the upcoming event, Nairobi County Coordinator Children's Services Mr Hoyd Isadia, said the purpose of the Assembly whose concept started in 2014 provides children with a platform to air their views and to give an input in policies that touch on children's affairs.
Mr Isadia said the opportunity has empowered children to come up with a memorandum on education which has made it easier for children to access bursaries.
"This platform is important as it enables the children to contribute their views through public participation," said the County Coordinator.
Isadia added: "The gains of the Children Assembly has brought leadership elections in schools, and given children life and leadership skills."
He said members of the Assembly who are aged 11 to 17, are selected as members of the four sub-committees which include Survival, Protection, Participation and Development, noting that voices on the issues raised from the committees are presented to the National Assembly to inform policy.
The Survival Sub Committees deals with the Rights to birth certificates, health, medical, vaccine and nutrition, while Protection handles child labour, trafficking, child and drug abuse, online sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, neglect, physical abuse, female genital mutilation and harmful cultural practices which affect children.
In Development, issues handled are informal and formal education, spiritual development, parental guidance and love, play and leisure, and assisting children to develop while participation concentrates with issues that children can raise their voices on.
Ms Valentine Maole, a Children's Officer in the office of the Nairobi County Coordinator said the County has special issues which require a lot of attention in regards to child protection and safeguarding policy in the area of street children, child labour, children with disability and child abuse.
"These are areas where the children's voices can be raised and give an input in the policy before it becomes law," said Maole.
She at the same time noted that to prevent online child abuse among children, the Children's Department will continue to educate and inform them the channels they can use to report such incidences.
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The Scarlet Flower: Performance of the "Kremlin Ballet": (on January 13, Sunday) in THE STATE KREMLIN PALACE. Purchase of tickets. & #9742; +7(495) 620-78-46.
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Vivid ballet images are created by means of colorful scenery, wonderful costumes, expressive choreography.
This magic ballet in two acts is intended for family viewing: , its fairy-tale plot is comprehensible and interesting for children , and adults will also enjoy meeting with the long-loved and familiar from childhood Russian fairy tale about the victory of good over evil.
Duration: up to 2 hours 30 minutes (with intermission).
In a dense forest, behind the impenetrable thicket on a meadow there is a green mound. On its top grows a beautiful scarlet flower. This flower is not ordinary, it is magic. It emits very strong invisible waves: vibes of love and loyalty for pairs destined for each other. That is why men and women, girls and boys are looking for this scarlet flower, hoping that it will help them find their couple and happiness. Scarlet flower cannot help only the witch. Prince Charming rejected her for her malice. Therefore, the witch turned the young prince into a terrible beast and put a spell on him to guard the scarlet flower forever.
Wealthy merchant Ivan Vasilyevich is leaving to trade overseas: he and his friends are loading the ship. Meanwhile, people gather at the pier to give merchants a send-off. Among the gathered are the daughters of the merchant.
Before the ship departs, the daughters ask the father to bring them expensive gifts: the eldest asks for a golden crown with gems, the middle sister wants pearl beads. Only the youngest does not ask for anything. Nevertheless, Ivan Vasilyevich insists, and Nastenka finally tells him about her dream, which does not give her rest. She saw a scarlet flower in this dream, which is prettier than anything else in this world. Nastenka asks her father to bring this flower from overseas to her. Father promises to fulfill the wishes of his daughters and together with other merchants sets off with the sails raised.
The oriental bazaar is in the usual motion and bustle: merchants smartly pitch customers to come in demonstrating their goods. Chinese girls with fans, beautiful oriental dancers, everything attracts curious passers-by. Pearl divers are also an object of attention.
Meanwhile, Ivan Vasilyevich, who sold the goods at a good profit, is looking for gifts to his daughters. He fulfilled the orders of the elder and middle daughters, but what the younger daughter asked for, he cannot find. Nobody even heard about the scarlet flower. Upset, the merchant embarks on the ship and together with the companions sails home.
The wicked witch does not slumber: having learned about the interest of Ivan Vasilyevich to the scarlet flower, she decides to ruin the merchant; because of her charms and conspiracies, he will not be able to reach his native shore.
The ship gets into a strong storm: lightning strikes her masts, wind tears her sails. The ships rolls and Ivan Vasilyevich falls into the raging sea. The ship floats away, but the merchant manages to escape; the wave throws him onto an unknown shore.
Ivan Vasilyevich wakes up on an unknown island, in an enchanted forest. On a mound before him, there is a beautiful palace.
There are many magic flowers and butterflies in that palace. The merchant is treated to delicious foods. They dance in front of him. However, the owner is nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, on a mound, which is in the middle of the meadow, Ivan Vasilievich sees a flower, which can be named the most beautiful in the world. From the flower is so amazingly radiant that the merchant understands: this is the scarlet flower.
Ivan Vasilyevich comes to the flower and as soon as he wants to pick it, suddenly, as if from under the ground, a terrible Beast appears and grabs the merchant by the hand.
The beast threatens to punish the merchant by death for his audacity, but Ivan Vasilyevich prays the beast to let him go, because he wanted to bring this flower to his younger and beloved daughter, Nastenka.
The Beast listened to the merchant and offered him a deal: it will give him the flower and return Ivan Vasilievich home, if he would send one of the daughters back to him, but if the daughters refuse, then the merchant will have to return to the Beast himself.
… he wakes up at home. Here he stands in his upper chamber with a flower in his hands. Daughters meet their father, they are glad to receive presents. Here are the companions of the merchant; they are the grooms of his daughters: their ship has safely reached the native shores. Ivan Vasilyevich is extremely happy. Everything seems to be all right, but only he does not know how to tell daughters about his deal with the Beast.
... finds herself in a beautiful garden. The sun is shining; birds of paradise are flying in the air. The girl puts a flower on the green mound. Suddenly, she hears charming sounds, goes in their direction and finds herself at the portal of the palace. Doors swing open, and on the threshold, beautiful fairies meet her. They invite the girl to a table full of delicious foods, and are ready to fulfill all her desires. Nastenka is very happy with such a reception. She thanks the invisible Master for his care and goes to bed. Fairies cover the girl with a soft swan fluff blanket and she falls asleep.
The Beast appears. Making sure that Nastenka sleeps, it is lovingly watching the beautiful guest.
Suddenly Nastenka wakes up. Seeing the terrible Beast in front of her, the girl tries to hide her fear, but the gentle look of the Beast soothes her.
Soon Nastenka gets accustomed to the ugly appearance of the Beast: they walk together, have gentle conversations in the park of the fairytale beauty, surrounded by dancing butterflies and fairies.
The sick father lies in bed. Nastenka rushes to him. Older daughters have no time to help their father, they are busy with grooms and outfits. They do not want to let their younger sister go: who will take care of a sick father? To detain her, treacherous sisters put the clock back. However, Nastenka's soul is restless. Feeling trouble, she puts on a ring and a few minutes before the specified time returns to the island to the Beast.
The beast suffers from loneliness. Time is running out, but Nastenka still is not there. He loses strength; his eyes darken. Embracing his favorite scarlet flower, he loses consciousness.
Nastenka finds herself in a terrible dense forest. A fierce thunderstorm and a rain prevent her from moving on. The servants of the witch are trying to knock her off the road. Nevertheless, having overcome all the obstacles, she comes to the mound on the meadow where she planted the scarlet flower, and sees the Beast embracing it. The Beast does not breathe. Trying to revive him, Nastenka calls him, hugs him and kisses. This very moment, a bright flash of lightning suddenly lights up the sky, and thunder shakes the earth. Nastenka loses her senses, and the enchanted Beast begins to rise throwing off the animal hide and turning into a beautiful young man. The spell of the wicked witch is over.
The Prince Charming hugs Nastenka and kisses her. Everything transforms. Garden is full of paradise flowers, butterflies fly in it, the palace glitters in the rays of the morning sun. Guests from all over the world come to congratulate young lovers. The father blesses them, and the insidious sisters beg for forgiveness. Soon there will be a wedding in the palace!
Nastenka and the Prince Charming thank the magic scarlet flower, a symbol of love and fidelity!


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